Gerald Newman: PhD: Professor emeritus in history at Kent State University
Monday, February 9, 2026, 3:00-4:00 pm, Koffler Great Room at ASA and zoom
After spending three weeks cruising between Rome and Lisbon in October with his wife, Gerald Newman shaped what he learned and photographed into a picture of the changing historic cultures of Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, and Portugal. He’ll share some amusing observations about the obsessive sardine culture of Portugal! Other experiences were illuminating, such as a visit to the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barsalona, designed by a Spanish architect who led the Catalan modernist movement and helped Catalan architecture achieve worldwide recognition. Still others were unexpectedly informative, as in the illustrated discussion of the Moorish architecture and design found in the Great Mosque of Cordoba, and the Alhambra Palace in Granada—architectural elements which then filtered out into Spain’s empire and even into Tucson where they can be seen quite clearly in the old Pima County Courthouse.