Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall @ 5:00 pm
Recording of Event Counterfactual thinking is a form of asking “what if” questions that consider how the present would have unfolded had historical events had different outcomes. In this talk, I’ll draw from my research …
Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Tour Remaking the Renaissance exhibition with its curator, Dr. Sophie Pitman (Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist and Research Director). Take a close look at Renaissance textiles and learn about how researchers are remaking and restoring objects …
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 …
Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us in celebrating the opening of Remaking the Renaissance. On view starting February 7, Remaking the Renaissance offers a fresh take on this iconic period of textile and fashion history. Demonstrating that remaking is …
Ruth Davis Design Gallery @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Please join us on Saturday, February 17 for an Open House in celebration for Heart, Head, and Hand: Making and Remaking at Berea College Student Craft. This gathering will include the curators of the exhibition, …
The Link @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
After much anticipation, we are thrilled to announce the upcoming Broom Making Workshop with Berea College Student Craft! Join us on February 15 and learn about broom making from Berea College Student Craft staff and …
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 …
Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery -
Looking at key textile innovations in the era c.1400-1700, Remaking the Renaissance suggests that objects and their histories can be restored and recreated through conservation and research.