Evil Trump Administration hurts scholarship

[Coventina]

Hi all,

I just got back from the annual CAA conference - the largest international gathering of artists and art historians. It was held in lovely NYC this year!!

Anyway, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER I attended a panel where an international scholar was forbidden a visa to come and present her paper.

She had recently been in the US for a fellowship at the Frick (a small but very prestigious museum in NYC) but was told that when her visa ended for that she had to return to France. She was also told that if she applied for a new visa right away, she would be denied and she would never be allowed in the US ever again!



What on earth is the harm in allowing a French Art Historian a visa to present a paper at a conference?

It does nothing but hurt the scholarly community!

Oh yeah, that's right. Trump loves the uneducated!

This administration is running the country into the ground!!!

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I don't remember many of the details, but I do remember that...

there were several times a big stink was made when foreign intellectuals were banned.

I do remember that Gabriel Garcia Marquez (his Hundred years of Solitude had a huge influence on me at the time) was banned in the '80s because of his friendship with Castro and several award presentations were canceled. To deny a Nobel winner entry because of his personal politics was seen even by many rightwingers as an outrage.

[Coventina]

2. Wow! Yeah, banning Marquez is certainly a bigger deal than a relatively unknown

French art historian.

Censorship is unAmerican.