The Social Power of Art

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These are lecture slides for a talk I'm giving at Haverford next week. The visual slides reference material from my book. I post this here as an example of what a Prezi show can look like. However, I notice that it doesn't work quite as seamlessly when it's embedded as it does right from the Prezi website.

The Social Power of Art: A Virtual Tour on Prezi

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