Previous Lectures

unknown artist working on Soviet war memorial sculpture post WWII
Photograph of Madeleine Collart sitting on the largest stone block from antiquity in Baalbek, Lebanon
“The Largest Building Stone in the World”: On the Naturalization of the Architectural Canon since 1945

Speaker

Lucia Allais
Associate Professor; Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Columbia University
Painting of a landscape at sunset with hues of yellow, orange, and browns. In the horizon Lake Albano with two trees framing the picture. In the lower half, men travel on a path with horses, a large ox, and sheep.
A World Made of Travel: Digital Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour of Italy

Speaker

Giovanna Ceserani
Associate Professor of Classics
Stanford University
“Follow the Leaders” Isaac Cordal. Berlin, Germany 2011 (small clay sculputres of businessman submerge in a puddle of water on the streets of Berlin)
Emergency Politics as Emergency Claim-making

Speaker

Jennifer Rubenstein
Associate Professor of Politics
University of Virginia
Cartoon drawing of an English man wearing a top hat with multiple octopus arms touching countries; titled "The Devilfish in Egyption Waters"
Catching Fire: Global Carbonization and the Making of the Middle East

Speaker

On Barak
Senior Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern and African History
Tel Aviv University
Photograph of performers with Les 7 doigts de la main
Co-Constructing Embodiment in Avant-Garde Québécois Circus

Speaker

Graham Jones
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Photograph of Miriam Petty
How Do You Solve a ‘Problem’ Like Madea? Re/Reading Tyler Perry

Speaker

Miriam Petty
Associate Professor, Department of Radio/Television/Film
Northwestern University
Image of Gayle Salamon, Professor English and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University
The Life and Death of Latisha King

Speaker

Gayle Salamon
Professor of English and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Princeton University