Special Lectures Archive

Sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture

Spring 2007

The Video I: Reflexivity and Embodiment
Catherine Zimmer, Department of English, Pace University
Feb. 19, 8 p.m., Bryn Mawr College, College Hall 110
Sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture and the Film Studies Program.

An Evening with Author Caryl Phillips
March 6, 8 p.m., Bryn Mawr College, Goodhart Music Room ​
Sponsored by the Graduate Group, the Grunfeld Lecture Fund, the Program in Creative Writing, the Department of History and the Center for Visual Culture at Bryn Mawr College.


Fall 2006

New Frontiers in Cartooning and Graphic Novels: Jessica Abel, Alison Bechdel, Gabrielle Bell, and Lauren Weinstein
Jessica Abel, La Perdida
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home 
Gabrielle Bell, "I Feel Nothing," MOME
Lauren Weinstein, Girl Stories
Nov. 30, 8 p.m., Bryn Mawr College, Great Hall
Sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture and the Department of History.


Fall 2005

The German Expressionist Artist Group 'Die Brücke' as a Political Issue in the Age of Extremes
Dr. Christian Saehrendt Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
Keynote lecture, Philadelphia Symposium in History of Art
Dec. 9, 4 p.m., College Hall 224
Sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture.


Spring 2005

Jeff Wall's Encounter with Étant Donnés: Duchamp and the Directed Photograph after Conceptual Art
The Miriam Grunfeld Lecture
Michael Newman, Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
March 24, 4:30 p.m., Bryn Mawr College Carpenter Library
Sponsored by the Department of History of Art and the Center for Visual Culture.


Fall 2004

Once Upon a Time is Now
Elizabeth Catanese
Oct. 22, 4:30-6:30 p.m., English House Basement
Sponsored by the Bryn Mawr College Art Club, Center for Science in Society, Center for Visual Culture, Feminist and Gender Studies Program, and the Department of Creative Writing.

"Brother to Brother" (2004) Screening and Q&A
Rodney Evans, Filmmaker
Oct. 28, 5 p.m., College Hall 110
Sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture.

The Guantanamobile Project: Screening and Discussion
Lisa Lynch
Media Studies, Catholic University of America
Elena Razlogova
Dept. of History, George Mason University
Oct. 29, 2:30 p.m., Carpenter Library 21
Sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture and the Center for Ethnicities, Communities, and Social Policy.

Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman and What Farocki Taught: Screening and Discussion
Jill Godmilow, Filmmaker
Nov. 22, 8 p.m., College Hall 110
Sponsored by the Program in Film Studies, the Center for Visual Culture and the Department of English.


Spring 2004

A Retrospective, 1988-2003: Voith & Mactavish Architects
Daniela Holt Voith ’76, Cameron Mactavish
​Jan. 22-Feb. 22
The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Whitehead Campus Center, Haverford College
Reception Jan. 30, 5-7 p.m.
Sponsored by Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.

Desert Images: Visions of the Counter-Place in Israeli Culture
Yael Zerubavel, Chair of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University
Director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
Jan. 26, 4:30 p.m., College Hall 224
Reception to follow, London Room.
Co-sponsored by Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Political Science, and the Center for Visual Culture.

Past Presence: A Public Art Project
A lecture and reception with contemporary artist Mark Dion and curator, Denise Markonish
Feb. 5, 4:30 p.m., Carpenter B21
​In conjunction with the Main Line Art Center's newest public art project Past Presence: Contemporary Reflections on the Main Line.

Picturing Women Symposium
Picturing Women explores how women are figured, fashioned, turned into portraits, and told about in words and pictorial narrative
March 19-21
Sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture.

Bilalian: Film Screening
Director: Aminah Abdul-Jabbaar
Awards: Visionary Award, Pan African Film Festival 2002 Best Director of a Documentary Feature, Dahlonega International Film Festival 2002
March 24, 7:30 p.m., College Hall 110

Steven Gontarski
Visiting Artist Lecture
March 29, 7 p.m., Carpenter B21
​​Sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture


Fall 2003

Witnessing's End: Stealing Horror's Picture in the Warsaw Ghetto
Lecture Series in Visual Culture and the Holocaust
Eric Rosenberg, Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University
Oct. 2, 4:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., Carpenter Library 21
Sponsored by the Program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Co-sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture.

Head to Toe: (un)Covering the Human Body
Graduate Student Symposium
Oct. 10-11
Sponsored by the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art.

Walter Benjamin's Last Passage: Dani Karavan's Memorial at Port Bou Spain
Lecture Series in Visual Culture and the Holocaust
Michele Cone '51, Professor of Art History, School of Visual Arts, NYC
Nov. 6, 4:30 p.m., Carpenter Library 21 
Sponsored by the Program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Co-sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture

After 9/11: Aesthetics, Visuality and the Trade Center
Sasha Torres '86, Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
Nov. 13, 4:30 p.m., English House Lecture Hall
Sponsored by the Department of English and Center for Visual Culture.

Resisting Paradise (2003)
Lecture Series in Visual Culture and the Holocaust
Barbara Hammer, Filmmaker
Dec. 8, 4:30 p.m., Carpenter Library 21  
Sponsored by the Program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Co-sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture.

The Design Story of the Rhys Carpenter Library
Henry Myerberg, Architect, Rhys Carpenter Library
Dec. 11, noon, College Hall 110
Sponsored by the Growth and Structure of Cities Program and the Center for Visual Culture.


Spring 2003

Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminism: New Light on an Old Question
The Barbara Miller Lane Lecture
Alice T. Friedman, Professor of Art, Co-Director, Architecture Program, Wellesley College
Feb. 3, 4 p.m., College Hall 110
With support from Voith & Mactavish Architects.

Youth, Sex and Film Series
Feb. 4-April 15, Taylor Hall "F"

"George Washington" (2000)
Director: David Gordon Green

"Paris is Burning" (1991)
Director: Jennie Livingston

"Nico and Dani" (2001)
Director: Cesc Gay

"Mi Vida Loca" (1994)
Director: Allison Anders

"Bully" (2001)
Director: Larry Clark

Space in Plastic Arts and Philosophy
Claudine Romeo, Agrégé de Philosophic, Sorbonne, Paris
March 17, College Hall 224
Co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy.

NYC: Just Like Pictured It
Truth Seekers

MadCat Women’s Film Festival
March 22, Philadelphia: Prince Theatre, Black Box
Womens’ Studies Department, Temple University
Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College
Film and Media Arts Department, Temple University


Fall 2002

Roger Fry's Formalism
Michael Fried, Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities, The Johns Hopkins University
Sept. 27, College Hall 224, Quita Woodward Room
Co-sponsored by the Department of History of Art.

Exhibition: Katherine Bradford '64, Artist 
An exhibition of paintings and drawings in the Canaday Library Gallery and the foyer of Erdman Hall
Oct. 25. Reception, 4 p.m. Gallery Talk, 5 p.m.

Facing West, Facing East: Orientalism and the Unmaking of the "Just" Warrior in Xena, Warior Princess
Kathleen Kennedy, Professor of History and Gender Studies, Western Washington University
Co-author of Athena's Daughters: Television's New Woman Warrior
Nov. 14, 4:15 p.m., Carpenter Library

The Realism of Love
Kaja Silverman '40, Professor of Rhetoric and Film, University of California at Berkeley
Nov. 19, 1 p.m., Carpenter Library


Spring 2002

More Than Meets the Eye: Indian Calendar Art: The Circulation of Images and the Embodiment of Value
Kajri Jain, Ph.D., Getty Research Institute
Feb. 7, Carpenter Library 21

William Earle Williams: The Vicksburg Campaign: Photographs of The Civil War Battlefields
Exhibit Jan. 25-Feb. 22, the Canaday Library Gallery
Feb. 8: Artist's Reception, 5-7p.m.; Gallery Talk 5:30 p.m.

Fiction Film and the Holocaust
Lecture Series in Visual Culture and the Holocaust
Millicent Marcus, University of Pennsylvania 
Feb. 14, 4:30 p.m., Carpenter Library 21
Sponsored by the Program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Co-sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture.

Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye
Lecture Series in Visual Culture and the Holocaust
Barbie Zelizer, Professor, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania
Editor, Visual Culture and the Holocaust
Author, Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye 
March 7, 4:30 p.m., Carpenter Library 21
Sponsored by the Program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Co-sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture.

Bocche Inutili: Incorporating Pisa in the Florentine Imaginary
Philadelphia Symposium on the History of Art
Keynote Address, Cristelle Baskins, Tufts University
March 22, 5 p.m., Carpenter Library 21
Co-sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Memory, Counter-Memory and the End of the Monument
Lecture Series in Visual Culture and the Holocaust
James Young, Professor, Judaic and Near Eastern Studies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Author, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning and At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture

30th-Year Celebration of Women Make Movies
Film Festival
April 4-6
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of English and Feminist and Gender Studies.

City of Cine, City of Signs: The Visual Culture of Cinema Advertisements in South India
Preminda Jacob, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
April 15, 7 p.m., Carpenter Library 25

Artemisia Gentileschi: Our Contemporary: The Self-Representations of a 17th-Century Woman
Graziella Magherini, Psychoanalyst, Firenze, Italy
April 18, 7:30 p.m., College Hall 224

Delhi Diary 2001
Ranjani Mazumdar, Filmmaker
April 29, 4 p.m., Carpenter Library 25


Fall 2001

Why Not a Woman? M. Carey Thomas and the Issue of Woman Portrait Painter
Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Sept. 21, 3 p.m., Goodhart Hall
Co-sponsored by Friends of the Library.

Amateur or Professional: Experts, Dabblers, Hirelings, and Hacks
Third Biennial Bryn Mawr College Graduate Student Symposium
Keynote Address: Irene Winter, Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University
Oct. 12-13, Carpenter Library
Co-Sponsored by the Departments of History of Art, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, and Greek, Latin and Ancient History.

The Rebuilding of Japan's Bombed Cities—A Comparative Analysis
International Conference
Oct. 28-30
Co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation.

Michael Krausz: Exhibition of recent paintings
Reception and Q&A: Nov. 6, 4:15 p.m., Canaday Library

On Pornography
Susan Dwyer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland
Nov. 7, Guild Hall, Room 210
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy.

Miracles Happen: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Limits of Enlightenment
Eric Santner, Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern Jewish History, Chair of the Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
Nov. 8, 8 p.m., Ely Room, Wyndham
Co-Sponsored by the Committee on Judaic Studies and the Department of English.

The Emperor's Old Clothes: Gift Exchange between the Byzantines and Arabs
The Grunfeld Lecture
Anthony Cutler, Department of Art History, Pennsylvania State University
Nov. 15, 5 p.m., College Hall 224

Luminous Fragments: Art and Memory in Jewish and Chinese Public Spaces
Vera Schwarcz, Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University
Nov. 15, 8 p.m., Ely Room, Wyndham
Co-Sponsored by the Committee on Judaic Studies and the Department of English.


Spring 2001

Roman Ceremonial Statuary
Brian Madigan, Wayne State University
Jan. 20, 7 p.m., College Hall 224

Art & Architecture in Medieval Cairo
Manar Darwish Munara
Feb. 14, 6 p.m., Carpenter B21

Aspects of Connoisseurship and Scholarship in Museums
William Wixom, Curator Emeritus of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art 
March 19, 4:30 p.m., Carpenter Library 21

Mark Rothko and the Second Pompeian Style
Vincent J. Bruno, University of Texas 
March 22, 4:30 p.m., College Hall 110
Co-sponsored by the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund and the Center for Visual Culture.

The Brandon Teena Archive
Judith Halberstam, University of California, San Diego
March 29, 4:15 p.m., College Hall 110

Luncheon seminar on African-American Aesthetics
Paul Gilroy, Yale University
April 3, noon, Haffner Hall, Dorothy Vernon Room

The Concept of Style and the Problem of Roman Art
The Grundman Lecture
Richard Brilliant, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
April 5, 4:30 pm, Carpenter Library 21, Reception in the Quita Woodward Room

Transforming Communities Through Art: Mural Painting as an Agent of Social Change
The Roberta Holder Gellert Lecture
Jane Golden, Director of the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia
April 12, 8 p.m., Great Hall
Co-sponsored by the Center for Ethnicities, Communities, and Social Policy.

Student and Faculty Panel on the Role of Art in Past and Present Communities
Jane Golden Panel Discussion
April 13, 2 p.m., College Hall 110
Co-sponsored by the Center for Ethnicities, Communities, and Social Policy.

Le Corbusier, the New Woman, and Domestic Reform
The Barbara Miller Lane Lectures
Mary McLeod, Columbia University 
April 27, 4:15 p.m., College Hall 110

Mass as Ornament from Siegfried Kracauer to Leni Riefenstahl
Joan Ockman, Columbia University
April 28, 10 a.m., College Hall 224