Katharine E. McBride Professor
Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
“Mask and Husk: Käthe Kollwitz’s Mourning Parents and Self-Portrait in Dialogue”
This comparative interpretation of Käthe Kollwitz’s sculptures Mourning Parents (1914-1932) and Self-Portrait (1926-1932) explores her strong, if conflicted, identity as a sculptor, when her fame and reputation as a socially engaged artist rested firmly on her graphic oeuvre.
Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, Bryn Mawr College
“Wer“ Aesthetics in Contemporary Queer Thai Cinema
This talk explores queer film aesthetics deployed by artists and filmmakers in Thailand in response to censorship measures. The paper articulates a local Thai manifestation of camp that I call “wer” aesthetics. I read “wer” aesthetics as a complicit critique of Thai nationalism and a manifestation of a regional film aesthetics.
Chair of Archaeology, University of Southampton
“Truth and Beauty in the Artistic Engagement with Antiquity: British History Painters and the Representation of Ancient Egypt”
In the second half of the nineteenth century a flourishing tradition of history painting emerged as a result of the intense engagement with the material culture of the ancient world. In Britain key historicist artists, such as Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Poynter and Edwin Long, produced highly evocative visions of antiquity, which were densely populated with archaeological references. This talk explores how these artists responded to the fast growing collections of antiquities in museums and how their paintings had a profound impact on the conception of the past.
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
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
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
Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sound and Scent in the Andalusian Garden
TUE. NOV. 3, 2015
4:30 PM | RECEPTION
5:00 PM | LECTURE
FREE ADMISSION
Bryn Mawr College
Goodhart Hall, Music Rm
150 N Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr
INFO
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267-809-3668
Co-presented by Bryn Mawr College’s Middle East Studies Program and Arabic Program
Islamic gardens were richly sensory environments: the poets tell us so, the manuscript paintings show us, and our own encounters with modern gardens remind us of these pleasures.
Dr. Ruggles will discuss the Andalusian Garden as she tries to answer the question: how do we study the sensory experiences of the past, given that the ephemeral effects of scented flowers and fleeting sounds leave so few traces?
Documentary Film by Karan Bali
Monday, November 9, 2015
Bryn Mawr College
Thomas Library 224
4:30 PM
Discussion with the filmmaker and refreshments following the film.
Tracing the career of American director Ellis Dungan in the Madras film studios in the 1930s and 40s, Mumbai-based filmmaker Karan Bali explores the fascinating cross-cultural encounter at the heart of the formative years of sound cinema in South India.
Co-sponsored by the Bryn Mawr College Program in Film Studies, Department of Anthropology and the Center for Visual Culture.
