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Aesthetics Out of Bounds Lecture Series

The lecture series brought top scholars in the arts, humanities and sciences to campus to speak on their specialty and to lead one complementary seminar of faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students.



Trinh T. Minh-ha
September 12, 2005
Filmmaker, writer and composer and Professor of Women's Film Studies and Rhetroic, University of California at Berkeley

Transcultural Passage
with Night Passage film screening
 
Franklin Toker
October 10, 2005
Professor of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

Fallingwater and the Resistance to Modernism in the United States
 

Giuliana Bruno
October 24, 2005

Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

Emotion-Pictures: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film
 
Thomas McEvilley
November 14, 2005
Distinguished Lecturer in Art History at Rice University 1969-2005 and recently named Head of the MFA degree in art criticism and writing at School of Visual Arts, New York City

The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek & Indian Philosophies
 
Joseph Roach
January 23, 2006
Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater and English, Yale University

IT: The singular quality, easy to perceive but hard to define, possessed by abnormally interesting people
 
Colin MacCabe
January 30, 2006
Head of Research, British Film Institute — London

The Films of Neil Jordan
 
Tom Smart
February 27, 2006
Past Director of Collections & Exhibitions, Frick Art & Historical Center — Pittsburgh, PA and currently Director, McMichael Canadian Collection in Kleinburg (Toronto)

An Archive of Silent Conversations: Visiting Artists at the Frick
 

Michael Roth
March 20, 2006

President, California College of the Arts

Respecting the Past: New Approaches to Memory, Trauma and Piety
 
Lorraine Daston
April 3, 2006
Director of the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin

Four Eyed Seeing
 
Katheryn Linduff
May 1, 2006
University Center for International Studies Research Professor, Department of Art and Architecture — University of Pittsburgh

Through the Looking Glass — Visualizing Place and Others in China
 

   

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