{"id":99464,"date":"2026-06-11T03:20:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=99464"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:15:26","slug":"carlson-library-to-host-lecture-on-artist-david-wojnarowicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/06_11_2026\/carlson-library-to-host-lecture-on-artist-david-wojnarowicz","title":{"rendered":"Carlson Library to Host Lecture on Artist David Wojnarowicz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mysoon Rizk, a professor of art history at UToledo, will deliver a special summer lecture titled \u201cParasites Found: \u2018Diseased Society\u2019 in the Work of David Wojnarowicz\u201d at 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 16.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation will take place in the Carlson Library Main Event Space (Room 1005) on Main Campus. Held in conjunction with the ongoing \u201cAIDS, Posters and Public Health\u201d exhibition in the library&#8217;s North Gallery, the lecture will explore the profound relationship between art and social activism.<\/p>\n<p>An internationally recognized expert on the late American artist, Rizk was the first person to catalog his estate materials for New York University. She currently serves on the board of the David Wojnarowicz Foundation and joined the UToledo faculty in 2000.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77989\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77989\" class=\"wp-image-77989\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Mysoon-Rizk-SIDE.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Mysoon Rizk.\" width=\"400\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Mysoon-Rizk-SIDE.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Mysoon-Rizk-SIDE-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-77989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mysoon Rizk<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/06_11_2026\/carlson-library-to-host-lecture-on-artist-david-wojnarowicz\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Mysoon-Rizk-SIDE-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Headshot of Mysoon Rizk.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Dr. Mysoon Rizk, professor of art history, will discuss the intersection of art, disease and activism at a Tuesday, June 16, presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":77989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,498,45,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99467,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99464\/revisions\/99467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}