University Club Room 212 @ 12:00 pm
Jones’s book and talk are about the way that the concept of “energy” itself got bound together with fossil fuel extraction, settler colonialism, and extractive forms of labor in the massive energy transitions of the …
Elvehjem L150 @ 4:00 pm
Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was a flop when it was first published in 1851, but it finally became a hit in 1930, when Lakeside Press issued a new bestselling new edition of the novel with Rockwell Kent’s iconic …
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection @ 12:30 pm
In “The Challenge of Constraints,” a chapter in E. H. Gombrich’s The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art (1979), Gombrich presents encounters with material resistance, with natural and mathematical laws experienced as …
Memorial Library Room 126 @ 3:30 pm
Co-sponsored with the Center for Visual Cultures “Working with resistance towards a non-dual ‘poetry’ – and politics – ‘of truth’” The words “work”, “resistance”, and indeed “truth”, tend to connote difficult terrain. As such, they evoke …