LECTURE
Lecture: Yale: Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers: Amy Kohout
Yale Humanities Quadrangle 320 York Street, New HavenIn the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, U.S. soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct nature’s ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about the meaning of frontiers, […]
Lecture: Matt Warshauer: New London, the Sugar Trade, and Slavery in the West Indies
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThe Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to partner with the Thames River Heritage Park to host their 2024 lecture series, Stories from the Park: Island Affairs of the Thames. Connecticut’s Sweet Tooth – New London, the Sugar Trade and Slavery in the West Indies: Professor Matt Warshauer shares stories about the Thames River region when it […]
Lecture: Maren Hassinger in Conversation with Chassidy A. Winestock: On the Occasion of A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture
Knafel Center 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MALecture is in person or online: In conjunction with Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, join us for a special conversation between the artist Maren Hassinger, whose work is included in the exhibition, and the curator Chassidy A. Winestock. This dialogue will be introduced and moderated by the art historian and curator Mary Schneider […]
Lecture: A Cannon to the Canon? Case Studies in Moving Beyond the Textbook at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThis program will introduce the NEH grant-funded project, “Not your grandfather’s art history: A BIPOC Reader,” a collaboration with Smarthistory.org led by Olivia Chiang, that includes 20 essays authored largely by scholars of color and which aims to broaden the scope of the traditional art historical canon. During the program, Chiang will examine two case […]
WCSU: Climate and Human Civilization Lecture Series: Fire Climate
WCSU Science Building 181 White Street, DanburyCLIMATE AND HUMAN CIVILIZATION: 8th annual series of lectures for the general public on climate change. Professors at WCSU will team up with students to present the latest information on climate change and its effects on our lives and future. From 7 to 8 p.m. in Room 219 of the Science Building on the Midtown campus. The public […]
Virtual Lecture: Color Theory for Artists, Designers, and Visual Thinkers
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldMarcie Cooperman, Assistant Instructor, Parsons School of Fashion Presented in conjunction with Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color (Bellarmine Hall Galleries, April 5–July 27). Streaming only on thequicklive.com For more information
WCSU: Climate and Human Civilization Lecture Series: Hot Expectations: Risk, Outcomes, & Harm Reduction in the Heat for the Physically Active
WCSU Science Building 181 White Street, DanburyCLIMATE AND HUMAN CIVILIZATION: 8th annual series of lectures for the general public on climate change. Professors at WCSU will team up with students to present the latest information on climate change and its effects on our lives and future. From 7 to 8 p.m. in Room 219 of the Science Building on the Midtown campus. The public […]
WCSU: Climate and Human Civilization Lecture Series: War on the Environment
WCSU Science Building 181 White Street, DanburyCLIMATE AND HUMAN CIVILIZATION: 8th annual series of lectures for the general public on climate change. Professors at WCSU will team up with students to present the latest information on climate change and its effects on our lives and future. From 7 to 8 p.m. in Room 219 of the Science Building on the Midtown campus. The public […]
Lecture: Digging for Hope in Mexico: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves: Rosalva Aida Hernández Castillo
Knafel Center 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MAIn-Person or ZOOM A presentation from 2023–2024 Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow Rosalva Aida Hernández Castillo Hernández Castillo’s book, “Digging for Hope in Mexico: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves,” will offer an ethnographic account of family collectives searching for their disappeared loved ones throughout Mexico. Drawing on interviews, participant […]
Paul Mellon Lecture | Lynda Nead: “Pauline Boty — Women, Desire, and the Image in Sixties Britain”
Yale School of Architecture 180 York Street, New HavenIn the 1960s a new kind of blonde femininity emerged in Britain. Part of a new regional and class configuration and a changing moral and sexual environment, Sixties Blonde was described as natural, energetic, impulsive, and self-sufficient, an urban figure who embodied modernity and was a staple of fashion photography and sixties cinema. For more […]
Lecture: Deborah Donovan: New London “Whalers” and Isles of the Southern Ocean
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThe Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to partner with the Thames River Heritage Park to host their 2024 lecture series, Stories from the Park: Island Affairs of the Thames. Bound for Desolation – New London “Whalers” and Isles of the Southern Ocean: Local historian Deborah Donovan shares stories about New London “whalers,” who harvested massive […]
URI Professor Catherine Sama The ‘Women of the Villas’: Collaboration between Italian Partisans and the Office of Strategic Services during WWII
Westerly Library & Wilcox Park Auditorium 44 Broad Street, Westerly, RIDante Society Lecture: Professor Catherine Sama is the head of the Italian program at the University of Rhode Island. She enjoys teaching a wide range of courses at URI, from Italian language & culture classes to advanced courses in Italian literature and film. Specific areas of focus include early modern Italian women writers; Italian dramatic […]