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Talk: How Chances It They Travel? Mapping Itinerant Theater in Early Modern Europe
Talk: How Chances It They Travel? Mapping Itinerant Theater in Early Modern Europe
Talk: How Chances It They Travel?: Mapping Itinerant Theater in Early Modern Europe By Emily Glider (Boston University, Literary and Cultural Theory) Date: Monday, February 24, 2025 Time: 1230-1330 Room: H232 Abstract: Itinerant theater has long been represented as a “chance” affair: troupes of “wandering” or “strolling” players performing on an opportunistic basis at various courts, cities, and trade fairs […]
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Talk: “It Will Be Like a Statue,” or: Place and Utopia in London’s Theaters
Talk: “It Will Be Like a Statue,” or: Place and Utopia in London’s Theaters
Talk: “It Will Be Like a Statue,” or: Place and Utopia in London’s Theaters By Madeleine Read (University of California Irvine, English) Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: In 1988, London’s Royal Court Theatre produced a series by Howard Brenton billed as “Three Plays Toward Utopia.” Utopia is a genre with intricate and abiding English roots, […]
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Talk: The Automation Bias – Radio Art and American Technopolitics.
Talk: The Automation Bias – Radio Art and American Technopolitics.
Talk: The Automation Bias - Radio Art and American Technopolitics. By Andy Kelleher Stuhl (McGill, Art History & Communication Studies) Date: Tuesday, 4 March Time: 1730-1900 Room: G-140 Abstract: In the 1960s and 1970s, a new technology—radio automation—was changing how sound and information flowed among American audiences, musicians, and creative intermediaries like disc jockeys. But automation did not take hold […]
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Talk: Upscaling – On the Cross-Scalar Movement of Modernity
Talk: Upscaling – On the Cross-Scalar Movement of Modernity
Talk: Upscaling: On the Cross-Scalar Movement of Modernity By Kirill Chepurin (ICI Berlin) Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Time: 1230-1330 Room: H232 Abstract: This talk argues that “modernity,” emerging as epoch and normative program in Enlightenment and Romantic thought, is a cross-scalar category that has, from the outset, served to mediate across three scales: the global, the planetary, and the […]
Talk: Bioarchaeology in Ancient Anatolia
Talk: Bioarchaeology in Ancient Anatolia
Title: Bioarchaeology in Ancient Anatolia By Benjamin Irvine (BIAA-Hacettepe) Dates: 5 March, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Place: FFB-05 Abstract: Bioarchaeology, the study of bones and other biological materials found in archaeological contexts, can provide a wealth of information about human life and the environment in the past. This talk will examine how bioarchaeological methodologies can tackle important and broad questions related […]
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Talk: Life in transition – Shifts in settlement, urbanization, infrastructure and material culture in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Asia Minor
Talk: Life in transition – Shifts in settlement, urbanization, infrastructure and material culture in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Asia Minor
Title: Life in transition – Shifts in settlement, urbanization, infrastructure and material culture in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Asia Minor By Dr. Rinse Willet (University of Nijmegen) Dates: 19 March, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Place: C-Block amphi Abstract: During the Hellenistic to Roman Imperial periods, Anatolia saw a rise in cities, monumental architecture, and infrastructure. Roman rule formalized communication networks like […]
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Talk: Lost in Imagination – Reality Principle and World Literature
Talk: Lost in Imagination – Reality Principle and World Literature
Talk: Lost in Imagination: Reality Principle and World Literature By Mehmet Yıldız (Harvard, Comparative Literature) Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: A fundamental question within the debate surrounding the contemporary notion of world literature concerns the possible misappropriation of texts in foreign contexts. In this talk, I trace such a concern to a commitment towards the reality […]