About the film: Reasonable Doubt Scenes from the lives and works of René Descartes and Kristina, Queen of Sweden Theoretical fiction, docu-drama, 98 min. After a relationship by correspondence, philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) met and briefly...
Kristel Smentek, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Architecture, MIT Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium Seminar Chairs: Robin Kelsey and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Thursday, April 28, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm Room 515, Broadway
Professor of Art History and Nineteenth-century Studies, University of Sydney; and her current affiliation is as Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor in Art History, Williams College, MA, 2015-16. This lecture is part of the HAA Graduate Student...
Joshua Chambers-Letson, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium Seminar Chairs: Robin Kelsey and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Recent interest in the “agency” of images prompts an examination of their times. If images can be inserted into temporal structures such as the chronological architecture that currently serves to organize art historical studies, they also have the power...