Gareth Doherty (Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design) 8 Dec 2019 Lecture: Critical Landscapes Abstract: One of the most critical issues facing the design of urban settlements is engagement with people. Considering landscape as “the mutual shaping of people and place,” and drawing from anthropology, this lecture will ask two primary questions:… Read more Doherty Critical Landscapes
Puthiya Purayil Sneha (Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore) 20 January 2019 Lecture: TBA Abstract: TBA Bio: Puthiya Purayil Sneha works with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore. Her work primarily engages with shifts in modes and practices of knowledge production in the humanities and arts with the digital turn. Her areas of interest… Read more Sneha Lecture TBA
Kay Dickinson (Professor of Film, Concordia University) 28 November 2019 Lecture: Supply Chain Cinema, Supply Chain Education: Producing Workers for Transnational Media Production Abstract: Increasingly, big budget films are manufactured across a number of different sites. While this practice may be motivated by the need for particular, narratively-determined backdrops, split location production is often a… Read more Dickinson Supply Chain Cinema
Laila Jreis Navarro (Al-Andalus|Magreb Chair, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile)) @layla_jreis 25 November 2019 Lecture: The Last Pre-modern Arab Splendor over the Euro-African Strait: Renaissance “Gap” and Digital Transition Abstract: In the middle of the 13th century, the fall of the Almohad empire meant the end of the Islamic West unity over the Strait of Gibraltar. A… Read more Jreis Navarro Last Pre-modern Arab Splendor
George Blaustein (University of Amsterdam,Assistant Professor) 11 March 2019 Lecture: Of Trump and Textbooks: Notes on Teaching US History Outside the US Abstract: For many years, “American History, Beginning to End” has been the title of my introductory survey course in U.S. history. I teach in Amsterdam, and now is a curious moment for teaching American history abroad.… Read more Blaustein On Trump and Textbooks
Stefan Tetzlaff (Tandem Fellow in the History of Knowledge & Knowledge Cultures, German Historical Institute Washington, DC) 28 May 2019 Lecture: Cold War Expertise and Infrastructure: West German Aid and India’s National Development Abstract: Why and how did development aid – as we know it today – emerge during the Cold War? The talk addresses the… Read more Tetzlaff Cold War
Masha Kirasirova (NYU Abu Dhabi, Assistant Professor of History) 30 April 2019 Lecture: A Tashkent Spectacle: 1960s Soviet Central Asian Cinema for the Afro-Asian World. Abstract: As Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated in the early 1960s, Moscow leaders grew increasingly concerned about Chinese propaganda depicting the USSR as white, Russian, and colonial. To counter these narratives, the Communist… Read more Kirasirova Tashkent Spectacle
Siegfried Zielinski (Professor for Archaeology & Variantology of the Arts & Media at Berlin University of Arts; EGS Saas Fee, Michel-Foucault-Professor for Techno-Aesthetics and Media Archaeology) 20 Feb 2019 Lecture: Expanded Hermeneutics: Media Studies for the 21st Century Abstract: In this lecture I would also address my own theoretical heritage with the Berlin Institute of Language in the Technical… Read more Zielinski Expanded Hermeneutics
David Joseph Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi, Digital Humanities) 12 Feb 2019 Lecture: The Geolocation of Culture: On the Virtual in Mobile Spatial Humanities Practices Abstract: Where are we when we are on the Internet? Where are we when we do digital humanities? As digital humanities practices grow, they are increasingly taking place in less physically situated conditions.… Read more Wrisley The Geolocation of Culture…
Henning Trüper (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies) 5 Feb 2019 Lecture: Media Theory, Philology, and the History of Disciplines Abstract: The talk discusses strange interferences of older humanities paradigms, Particularly philology, in the history of the theorization of media. I will argue that philology, in its nineteenth-century manifestation, was above all a project of rendering the explication… Read more Trüper, Media Theory, Philology…