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Talks Series

Fall 2025

 
  • Zoè Samudzi: “Sibathontisele” at 15: Zimbabwean Ethnopolitics and the Work of Owen Maseko
    26 September

Spring 2025

 
  • An arch structure with green trees behind it.; Sean Connelly: Expert Witness Geomancer Mystic
    8 April
  • A man with a beard and glasses smiles at the camera. There are trees with orange leaves behind him.; Amar Kanwar: The Scene of Crime
    7 March

Fall 2024

 
  • Brenna Bhandar: The Racial Politics of Pre-Emption: Property, Power and Deputization
    8 November
  • Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Unlearning at the Threshold of the Museum
    8 October

Spring 2024

 
  • Molemo Moiloa: Becoming Ungovernable
    8 March
  • Robin Frohardt: Magic of the Mundane
    26 February

Fall 2023

 
  • Fehras Publishing Practices: “Hader Halal” (With Regard to Presence)
    13 November
  • Brian Lobel: Sex, Cancer, and Other Things My Mother Wishes I Never Had
    30 October
  • New Red Order: How to Commit Crimes Against Reality
    17 October
  • Guadalupe Maravilla: Health and Border Politics
    22 September

Spring 2023

 
  • Baha Hilo: The Olives of Palestine
    24 February
  • "Remote Control": Plantations and Black Forest Ecologies in the Black Belt
    10 February

Spring 2022

 
  • Layli Long Soldier: My Art is a Being
    1 April
  • Mohammed El-Kurd: "Bombs, Women, Children, etc.: Humanization, Victimhood, and the Politics of Appeal"
    8 March
  • Kendall Thomas: “Taking (A)part: Human Rights, Human Rites, and ‘Human Writes’”
    25 February
  • Bhenji Ra: Everything at Once: Permaculture, Abolition, and Trans Love
    11 February

Fall 2021

 
  • Sayak Valencia: The Livestreaming Regime–From Gore Capitalism to Contemporary Snuff Politics
    15 November
  • Githa Hariharan: The Writer in Search of Citizenship
    1 November
  • Githa Hariharan: The Writer in Search of Citizenship
    1 November
  • Lawrence Abu Hamdan–Natq: Impossible Speech
    4 October
  • Coco Fusco: “The Right to Have Rights: Cuban Artists Confront the State” (copy)
    20 September

Spring 2021

 
  • Hamed Sinno: Queerness in/as Metaphor
    7 May
  • Mark Sealy: Photography, Race, Rights, and Representation
    30 April
  • Ashmina Ranjit: Politics of Being
    23 April
  • Forensic Oceanography: Border Forensics
    16 April
  • Emily Johnson: Land and An Architecture of the Overflow
    9 April
  • Cassils: The Struggle for/The Struggle Against
    2 April
  • The White Pube: Ideas for a New Art World
    26 March
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