Lecturer in The Department of History of Art
Director of the Center for Visual Culture
Bryn Mawr College
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Lecturer in The Department of History of Art
Director of the Center for Visual Culture
Bryn Mawr College
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5-7 PM
Old Library 110
Curator of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Lecturer, University of Chicago
“Structures & Propositions: Bodies in Performance at MCA Chicago”
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“Barry Farm-Hillsdale: Reimagining Preservation for a Just Future”
This talk is about the fight to preserve a public housing project in Washington, DC, its local listing as a DC landmark, and subsequent (and ongoing) efforts to commemorate its history while also envisioning a new version of preservation that puts people first. Major themes include architectural integrity, cultural landscape theory student and community engagement in the visioning process, and the production of a documentary film.
There will actually be a screening of the film at Penn on March 1: https://cpcrs.upenn.edu/events/barry-farm-community-land-justice-washington-dc.
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Associate Professor
New York University
“Ecologies of Emotion: To Sense and See Udaipur’s Monumental Monsoon Moods, 1700-1900”
Bryn Mawr College
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30-6PM
Dipti Khera is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. As a scholar of early modern South Asia, with interdisciplinary training in art history, museum anthropology, and architecture, her research and teaching integrate longue durée perspectives and Indian Ocean and Eurasian geographies. Along with specializing in paintings, books, letters, and maps made in northern and western India, she has published on the crafting of colonial taste and foregrounded vernacular objects that reveal global art history’s blind spots in narrating stories of mobility, power, and emotional entanglements.
Joseph Scheier-Dolberg Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang Associate Curator of Chinese Paintings Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Contemporary Chinese Painting in 1940s New York City”
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Toilette scenes showing women primping before a mirror—applying makeup, lacing up corsets, brushing out hair—were everywhere in late nineteenth-century Paris. This talk will explore the widespread practice, detailed in French novels as well as in art and visual culture, of men paying for the privilege of watching a woman perform these intimate rituals. Why did the fashioning of one’s self-image hold so much erotic potential in the nineteenth-century imagination? How might we deconstruct the complex network of gazes at work in these images?