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Liminal |
A Screening and Q&A
Adrie Kusserow |
THE TRAUMA MANTRAS: Refugees, Healing and the Globalization of Trauma Stories
Tatiana Reinoza |
Reclaiming the Americas
Anna Tsing |
The New Nature
DS Kinsel
Conversations in Contemporary Design | Elizabeth Guffey |
Cripping Things: Disability and Design in the World
Almagul Menlibayeva |
Where the Silk Roads Meet: Chimerization of Reality as Decolonial Practice
Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Conversations on Contemporary Art | Jennifer A. González |
Silent Speech, Migratory Gesture
Learning from the Germans? |
A Conversation Around the Politics of Memorialization
Playing Counter-Colonialism
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Dilip da Cunha |
Where does decolonizing begin?
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Xiangli Ding |
A Flow of Water and Power: On intersections of nature, technology, and political changes in modern Chinese history
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Elizabeth Maynard |
Moving With/Moving Through: On radical interdisciplinarity and generous approaches to embodied teaching and learning
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Alero Akporiaye |
On political risk, oil politics, and corporate social responsibility
Casey Merkle |
How do you define the watershed? Working and playing with watersheds to bridge public perspectives
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Sanjay Kumar |
Borders/Boundaries: A Theatre Workshop
Alexandra Ionescu |
Between a Bookshelf and a Pond
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Lili Lai |
Curating Cultural Experiences: Presenting Chinatown’s identity within Montréal’s cultural fabric
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Anthony Acciavatti |
Conversations in Contemporary Design: Seeing Like a Mudskipper
Global Avant-Gardes: Beckettian Itineraries
Urvi Sharma + Manan Narang |
Conversations in Contemporary Design: INDO- Design Studio
Aditi Nagrath |
Considering the Unfinished Poem
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Lynnette Widder + Thad Russell |
Conversations in Contemporary Design | Making Year Zero to Economic Miracle: Construction, Photography and Memoir in Architectural History Writing
Rupa Marya |
Deep Medicine and the Care Revolution
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Anjali Arondekar |
I Am Not Your Data: Caste, Sexuality, Protest
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Shingo Tanaka & Michael Lewis |
Flowing Wind, Beating Thunder: An Introduction to the Japanese Flute and Drums
Michelle Millar Fisher |
Conversations in Contemporary Design: Hidden in Plain Sight: Design and the Everyday World
Maria Islas-Lopez |
The Voices of Centro Humanitario Memory Project: Partnering with Latino Immigrants to Document the Pandemic
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme |
After Everything is Extracted
Alexandra Lange |
Conversations in Contemporary Design: Looking for Role Models in All the Wrong Places
Jisha Menon |
Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City
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Sumie Kaneko |
Striking Chords, Strumming Strings: An Introduction to the Koto and Shamisen
Zoë Ryan |
Conversations in Contemporary Design | Portals for the Imagination: Making Architecture and Design Exhibitions
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Danah Abdulla |
Conversations in Contemporary Art | Changing the terms of the conversation: imagining otherwise
Queer/Feminist/Praxis |
Intersections of Performance, Visual Arts, and Activism in Korea and the Korean Diaspora
Neotenica |
A discussion with author Joon Oluchi Lee and Sandra Lim
Madina Tlostanova |
Uneasy Affinities: The Postcolonial and the Postsocialist Art Between Resistance and Re-existence
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Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn |
Part III
Fabric of Immortality: Ancestral Power, Performance, and Agency in Egungun Artistry |
A discussion with author Bolaji Campbell and Cheryl Sterling
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Un-Documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder |
A Conversation between director Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, and Vazira Zamindar, and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn |
Part II
Ahmed Ansari |
Decolonial Perspectives on Design Ethnography: Privileging Local Ontologies from the Global South
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Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn |
Part I
Liberal Arts Brown Bag Cocktail Hour |
In Conversation with Yuriko Saito + Dan Cavicchi
Liberal Arts Brown Bag Cocktail Hour |
The Joy, Pleasures and Pain of Academic Research
Visiting Scholar | Aruna D'Souza |
Against Empathy: The Value of Mistranslation in Art and in Life
Conversations On Contemporary Art |
Dread Scott, “Imagine a World without America”
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Conversations on Contemporary Art |
Rujeko Hockley & Jane Panetta, curators of the 2019 Whitney Biennial
GAC Visiting Scholar: Mark Jarzombek |
How to Think Global: The Chieftain Continuum
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New England Renaissance Conference 2019 |
Motion, Rhythm, Shifts
Interference Fringe |
An artist's talk by L.N. Tallur
Lynne Cooke |
Contesting Borders: Interchanges between Uncredentialed Artists and American Vanguards
Kader Attia |
On Repair
Ed Schlossberg |
Art|Design|Life
Designs for the Pluriverse |
A book discussion with Arturo Escobar
Decolonizing Design, Imagining Alternative Futures |
A talk by Arturo Escobar
Arjun Appadurai |
Is Modernity Still At Large? Global Cultural Flows in the Digital Era
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Chrissie Iles |
An Inadequate History of the Projected Image
Decolonizing Design, Repair and Mapping Indigenous Futures |
A conversation with Tristan Schultz
Re-thinking Art History/Settling Dreams, on Three Scales in The Lehore Biennale Reader |
THAD Research Colloquium
Climate Futures, Design and the Just Transition Symposium
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"Break Pot: Benefit St."
An evening with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage
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Shared Languages: Exhibition and Symposium Exploring the role of Craft in Built Environment of Morocco
Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale
Kirloskar Lecture and Panel Discussion | Asim Waqif |
Strategies for Disruption
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Design for the Real World Today: A Panel Discussion on Victor Papanek’s Design Manifesto and its Legacy
Victor Papanek: Design, Ecology, and Global Activism
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Jesse Jenkins |
Getting to Zero: What it will take to decarbonize electricity
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Displacement: People, Culture and Design Practice |
A presentation and response to life lived in an age of reconfiguration
