The lecture series would like to thank the Dean of Arts Development Fund at McGill, Media@McGill, and a generous anonymous donor for contributing to the series.
Unless otherwise noted, the events will take place at the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, Arts building, room W-215 at 4:00pm.
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Winter 2020
Jan 23: Susanna Paasonen
University of Turku, Finland
Intimate governance and the value of sex in social media
Feb 6: Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Production in Brazil - Part II
Beatriz Polivanov & Greice Schneider
Beyond the DJ Booth: Electronic Music Scenes and Cultural Production from a Female Perspective
Beatriz Polivanov (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; Visiting scholar, AHCS)
Graphic humour in Brazilian comic strips: the case of Laerte Coutinho
Greice Schneider (Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil; Visiting Scholar, Art History, UQAM)
Feb 20: Nikki A. Greene
Professor of Art History, Wellesley College
Radcliffe Bailey’s “Thirst Traps”: On the Visual Aesthetic Musicality of Black Art
Mar 19: Alison Syme **Cancelled**
Professor of Visual Studies, University of Toronto
Artificial Climates of Victorian London and the Kelmscott Chaucer
Apr 16-18: Containment + Intimacy **Postponed**
East Asian Studies and Art History & Communication Studies Graduate Symposium
Keynote speakers:
Ara Wilson (Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke)
Jie Li (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard)
http://containmentandintimacy.ca
Fall 2019
Sept 26: Dawn Odell
Chinese Art and the Global Eighteenth Century
Oct 4: Sara Ahmed
Complaint as a Queer Method
Co-sponsoring with IGSF Queer History Month
Oct 10: Nicholas Holm
Satire and the Dream of Cultural Politics
Oct 17: Ziya Tong
Oct 24: Kyle Devine
Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music
Nov 14: Carmen Robertson
Nov 21: Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Production in Brazil - Part I
Soraya Barreto
Gender, Advertising and Commoditization of Feminisms in Brazil
Jhessica Reia
The Gendered Politics of the Right to the City