The lecture series would like to thank the Dean of Arts Development Fund at 麻豆AV and a generous anonymous donor for contributing to the series.
Unless otherwise noted, the events will take place at the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, Arts building, room w-215 at 5:30pm.
Fall 2011
Thursday, September 22.
Tania Woloshyn is a post-doctoral fellow in the department of Art History & Communication Studies at 麻豆AV, under the supervision of Professor Mary Hunter. The two-year fellowship is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Tania comes to 麻豆AV after working at the University of Nottingham and Richmond, the American International University in London (UK) for two years as an adjunct assistant professor. From 2004-2008 she undertook her PhD in Art History at the University of Nottingham, under the supervision of Professor Anthea Callen. Her dissertation, "Vers la lumi猫re: Painters and Patients on the C么te d鈥橝zur, c.1887-1910," explored intersection in the histories of art, medicine and tourism on France's Mediterranean coast, particularly through the work of the Neo-Impressionists. Her current post-doctoral research focuses on shared interests amongst artists, physicists and doctors in sunlight, c.1880-1940. She is curating a small book exhibition, "Our Friend, the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics in the Osler Collection," at the Osler Library for the History of Medicine from January-June 2011 in conjunction with her post-doctoral research.
Thurs October 13
Media@麻豆AV Visiting Scholar Mara Mills is a historian of science who works at the intersection of disability studies and media studies. Her research and teaching interests include telephone and mobile media studies, science and technology studies, and disability theory. Her current book project traces the historical relationship between the telephone system, deafness, and signal processing. Other projects include: a history of talking books, reading machines, and print disability; a collaborative study of the history and politics of "miniaturization" in the electronics industry. Mills has lectured widely, including recent talks at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan); the Insitute of Media Archaeology at Kulturfabrik Hainburg (Austria); Universit茅 Paris Diderot; the Stanford Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society; the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa; and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of History. She comes to NYU after two years as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
Wednesday October 26, 6pm, Leacock 232
Michael Gaudio specializes in the visual culture of early modern Europe and the Atlantic world (ca. 1500-1800).听 His work is concerned with the status and function of visual images within the contexts of early modern science, religion, and cultural encounter, particularly in England and North America.听 He has written on such topics as visual ethnography, natural history illustration, cartographic practices, and landscape representation. His first book, Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization, examines how the early modern technology of engraving helped shape notions of the 鈥渃ivil鈥� and the 鈥渟avage.鈥� He is currently writing a book about the manipulation of religious prints in hand-made bible concordances created by the seventeenth-century English Protestant community at Little Gidding.
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Winter 2012
Thurs Jan 12听听听
Lisa Gitelman, Professor of Media and English, NYU, and Beaverbrook/Media@麻豆AV Visiting Scholar
鈥淣ew Media and Scholarly Communication: A History鈥�
Co-sponsored by Media@麻豆AV +
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Thurs February 2听听 5.30 pm, Arts W-215
Laura Murray, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, Queen's University, and Beaverbrook/Media@麻豆AV Visiting Scholar
鈥淐onversation: Is This Where the Commons is?鈥�
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Thurs February 16听
Deanna Bowen, Toronto-based visual artist
鈥淭he Ties that Bind: Recent Works by Deanna Bowen鈥�
Co-sponsored by the 麻豆AV Institute for the Study of Canada + Media and Urban Life research group + Social Equity and Diversity in Education office
Thurs March 8听
Whitney Davis, Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art, University of California at Berkeley
"Art History and the 'Triangle of Re-Enactment'"
Co-sponsored by the James 麻豆AV Chair in the History of Contemporary Art
Thurs March 22听 6pm NEW VENUE: Centre Mont-Royal, 2200 rue Mansfiled (corner Sherbrooke West)
Timothy Wu, Professor, Columbia University Law School
鈥淭he Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires鈥�
Co-sponsored by Media@麻豆AV +
Thurs March 29听听听
Margaret Schwartz, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University
鈥淎n Iconograpy of the Flesh: How Corpses Mean and Matter鈥�
Thurs April 5听
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Professor Emeritus, Department of Africology, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee听
鈥淧hilosophical and Identity Construction of an Elite: Haiti in the 19th and Early 20th 颁别苍迟耻谤测鈥�
Co-sponsored by the Department of History and Classical Studies and the Department of Anthropology