AHCS Speaker Series 2020-2021
The lecture series would like to thank the Dean of Arts Development Fund at 鶹AV, Media@鶹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 4:00pm.
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Fall 2020
Nov 26: Deborah Galante
PhD Student, 鶹AV
Gino Boccasile: Art, Propaganda, and Racism in Fascist Italy: 1936-1944
Winter 2021
Jan 26: Nina Morena and Clinton Glenn
PhD Students, 鶹AV
#Mastectomy on Instagram: Gendered Loss and the Function of the Scar in Photography
Commemoration and Desecration: LGBT Visibility and National Memory in Vilnius, Lithuania
Feb 18: David Myles, Emily Colpitts and Jordan Kinder
Exploring the social implications of digital media algorithms for Canada’s LGBTQ+ communities
Mar 2: Rach Klein and Chris Gismondi
PhD Students, 鶹AV
The Many Lives of David Drake's Earthenware: Engraved Poetry in 19th-century Edgefield
How did we get here? Whiteness in British-North American Slavery and Colonialism
Mar 18: Patrick Brodie and James Jelinski
Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Built Space in Post-Financial Crisis Ireland
How Differences in Medium Contributed to an Understanding of the Information”: Tattooing, Printmaking, and Conceptual Art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1970-73
Apr 6: Victoria Addona and Jhessica Reia
Supernatural Landscapes on the Early Modern Italian Stage
The Ephemeral Stages in the City: Understanding Street Performance and Urban Governance in the Americas
Apr 8: Nicolas Holt and Yuting Liu
PhD and MA students, 鶹AV
Sculpture in the Electromagnetic Field
Fluid Boundaries: Time, Space, Images in the "Guanyin Jingbian" of Mogao Cave 45