Helmut F. Stern Professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
“Changing Visions: Political Posters in Modern Chinese Visual Culture”
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Bryn Mawr College
Carpenter Library 21, 5pm
Category Archives: Special Lectures
October 19, 2016 – Diane Favro Lecture
The Dangers Of Representation:
The Battle of the Xs in Digital Urban Simulations
Diane Favro
Associate Dean, School of the Arts and Architecture, UCLA
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
6:30 pm, Carpenter B21
Pre-lecture reception at 6pm in the Quita Woodward Room.
Co-sponsored by:
Mellon Curricular Development Seed Grant
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Department
History of Art Department
Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
Department of Italian and Italian Studies
Graduate Group in Classics, Archaeology, and History of Art
Center for Visual Culture
Tri-College Digital Humanities
Philadelphia Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Every type of representation offers opportunities and dangers. Digital simulations of historic urban environments have been created for over 20 years, with ambitious early examples produced at UCLA. As we enter the second phase of production, scholars are increasingly interrogating the inherent representational challenges. After situating the issues at play today (X marks the spot), this talk will interrogate other Xs and their interaction. AesthetiX evaluations of most image types rely on familiar value judgments about urban viewing; those for digital urban simulations are more problematic, often involving conflicting technological and artistic proficiencies. Similarly, the equation “X = literacy” is not readily resolved in reference to digital recreated worlds where legibility centers on evolving means of user engagement. Hypothesis testing and other eXperimentation characterize current digital investigations exploiting approaches that tend to negate traditional evaluative strategies. Though overall the dangers inherent in digital representations can be destabilizing, they also foster heightened acuity and maintain eXcitement about research on the meaning, viewing, and experiencing of cities.
Diane Favro is Associate Dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, and Director of the Experiential Technologies Center.
Tri-Co Digital Humanities Spring Lecture – April 11 and 12, 2016
The Tri-Co Digital Humanities Initiative and the Bryn Mawr College Center for Visual Culture present:
Ruth Ahnert
2015-16 External Faculty Fellow
Stanford Humanities Center
and Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Studies
School of English and Drama
Queen Mary University of London
and
Sebastian Ahnert
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) Group
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge
“Tudor Networks of Power: A Digital Project”
Monday, April 11, 4:30 PM
Thomas Library 224, Bryn Mawr College
and
Tuesday, April 12, 12:00 PM
Popular Reading Room, first floor of McCabe Library
Swarthmore College
This project seeks to reconstruct the evidence for Tudor government networks that survives in the state papers archive (now digitized at State Papers Online). By analyzing the metadata from these 132,000 letters, Ruth and Sebastian Ahnert are able both to map the social network implicated in this correspondence, and to measure the relative centrality of each of its members using a range of mathematical tools. These measures enable them to trace large-scale patterns and anomalies, and to identify significant people and bodies of letters within the network requiring closer analysis. In this paper they will discuss both the process behind this large-scale project, and their initial findings.
Phil Stinson Lecture – April 7, 2016
Dr. Phil Stinson
Associate Professor of Classics, University of Kansas
“Digs and Drones? Digital Experiments in Documenting Roman Architecture”
Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 4:30pm
Bryn Mawr College
The Ely Room
Wyndham Alumnae House
In this lecture, Phil Stinson discusses how digital photogrammetry enhanced by
drone photography is revolutionizing the way Roman architecture is documented and
researched at the sites of Aphrodisias and Sardis in western Turkey.
Free and Open to the Public
Co-sponsored by the Mellon Digital Humanities Seed Grant,
the Bryn Mawr College Growth and Structure of Cities Department,
the Center for Visual Culture and theTri-Co Digital Humanities Initiative
Delaware Valley Medieval Association Spring Meeting – April 9, 2016
DVMA Spring Meeting
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Thomas Hall, Bryn Mawr College
1:00 – 6:00 PM
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture
and the Provost’s Office of Bryn Mawr College
To register for the event, please go to: http://dvmamedieval.com/
For directions to Bryn Mawr College, please go to:
http://www.brynmawr.edu/campus/directions.shtml
Tri-College Symposium of Women of Color in Academia – February 26, 2016
Bryn Mawr College/Carpenter Library B21
Noon – 5:00 PM
“Intimate Subjects: Gender and Race in Theory and Practice”
View poster for details.
Darra Goldstein Lecture – February 18, 2016
The Bryn Mawr College 1902 Lecture Fund, Center for Visual Culture and
360 Course Cluster present:
Darra Goldstein
Willcox and Harriet Adsit Professor of Russian, Williams College
Founding Editor, Gastronomica
“Looking at Cookbooks Seven Centuries of Visual Feasts”
Thursday, February 18
4:30pm
Bryn Mawr College
Carpenter Library B21
This talk will offer a feast for the senses, revealing cookbooks as more than just functional manuals for the kitchen. Cookbooks are also aesthetic objects that convey important cultural information, and the progression from text-based recipes to today’s lavish
illustrations mirrors the history of typographic design. For their often-irreverent takes on the culinary arts, artists’ cookbooks will be a special focus.
For more information, please contact Kate Thomas
kthomas@brynmawr.edu
November 11, 2015 – James Nachtwey at Haverford
The Haverford Distinguished Visitor Lecture presents:
“The Unvanquished”
A talk by James Nachtwey
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Great Room, Founders HallHaverford College
7:30 PM
Co-sponsored by the Haverford College Ethical Enquiry Course Development Fund
For more information, please contact csolomon@haverford
October 23, 2015 – Penn History of Art Colloquium
Cordula Grewe
Senior Fellow in the History of Art
“Ingres’ Theo-Aesthetics”
Rich Seminar Room
Jaffe 113; University of Pennsylvania
Friday, October 23, 3.30pm
November 10, 2015: Laura Park
Chicago-based cartoonist
Free Puppies and Ice Cream: A Presentation of Impractical Practices and Useful Non-Sequiturs
Bryn Mawr College
Quita Woodward Room
5-6 PM
Sponsored by Professor Shiamin Kwa and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Co-sponsored by the Bryn Mawr College Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts, the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund, the Tri-Co Comics Studies Working Group and the Center for Visual Culture.
For more information, please contact skwa@brynmawr.edu