Weekly Colloquia
Wednesdays
Thomas Library 224
12:30-2pm
Refreshments served.
January 30 – Susan L. Talbott
Susan L. Talbott Director & CEO Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut “Patti Smith’s Symbolic Portraits” The pioneering artist, musician, and poet, Patti Smith has made her mark on the American cultural landscape throughout her 40-year career. From her earlie...
February 6 – Min Kyung Lee
Min Kyung Lee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Modern Architecture Department of Art, Swarthmore College “Printing and the Inaccurate Production of Urban Space in Modern Paris” By the late eighteenth century, all governmental plans of Paris were based on ground surveys drawn into orthogonal co...
February 20 – Roya Z. Rastegar
Roya Z. Rastegar Visiting Assistant Professor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Bryn Mawr College “Sundance & the Curatorial Challenge of American Independent Film” Film festivals have increasingly become a dynamic curatorial mechanism for defining film culture. This talk explores ho...
February 27 – Marc Siegel
Marc Siegel Assistant Professor, Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany “Lensable Belief” In this talk, I analyze an important factor in the mobilization of star images within the queer New York underground film scene of the 1960s, namely belief....
March 20 – Dr. Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts
Dr. Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts Professor, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures “Haptic Visualities in Devotional Diasporas of Shirdi Sai Baba” Visual images are integral to the transnational networks of a dynamic contemporary religious movement based upon the life and teachings of Shir...
March 27 – Amy Powell
Amy Powell Associate Professor, History of Art University of California, Irvine “A History of the Picture as Box” In his 1948 essay, “The Crisis of the Easel Picture,” Clement Greenberg described the illusion created by Western easel paintings not as a window onto a world but instead as a...
April 3 – Miriam R. Levin
Miriam R. Levin Professor of History and History of Art Department of History, Case Western Reserve University “City, Exposition, Museum in Modernity’s Perspective” At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding...
April 10 – Michelle Angela Ortíz
Michelle Angela Ortíz Visual Artist, Muralist, and Community Arts Educator “Telling Their Stories: Engaging Communities through the Arts” Michelle Angela Ortíz is a visual artist, skilled muralist, and community arts educator who has designed and created over thirty large-scale publ...
April 17-David Cast
David Cast Professor, Department of History of Art Bryn Mawr College “Inside/Outside: Germany/London” The dismissal in the early 1930s of Jewish scholars from the universities of Germany led to an exodus of many such exiles to Britain. This talk describes, at the particular and general level,...
April 24 – Shari Frilot
Shari Frilot Senior Film and New Media Curator, Sundance Film Festival 2013 Tri-College Mellon Artist in Residence “The Power of the Erotic: Curatorial Strategies at Sundance’s New Frontier” Shari Frilot is senior programmer at the Sundance Film Festival and chief curator of the...
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