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Upcoming events

Amphibian Pedagogy Meets the Wet Ontologies of the Swamp

Lecture

Monday, April 21

Prov Wash Auditorium

Join Global Arts and Cultures for a lecture by Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas: artists, educators, and co-founders of Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research practice. Throughout history, architecture has been realized by draining swamps and wetlands—dividing land into liquid and solid, carving territories for agriculture and settlement, and displacing indigenous life. These are... read more

Past events

A Talk by Sawsan Abdulrahim

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