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American West August 10, 2022

Visions of Nature

How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism

Jarrod Hore

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
During the early years of photography, settlers around the Pacific World were fascinated with the landscapes of the places they conquered. According to Dr. Jarrod Hore, a postdoctoral researcher and …

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Performing Arts August 10, 2022

The Lost Conversation

Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde

Sara Farrington

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Sara Farrington's The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde (53rd State Press, 2021) is a collection of interviews with a host of influential artists in experimental theatre, including Richard Foreman …
Art August 5, 2022

Shelf Documents

Art Library as Practice

Heide Hinrichs and Jo-Ey Tang

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
How can a library change the world? How can an art library change the art school or the gallery? Or even an art practice? In Shelf Documents: Art Library as …
Indian Religions August 4, 2022

Gods in the Time of Democracy

Kajri Jain

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is …
Music August 1, 2022

Sight Readings

Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960

Alan John Ainsworth

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
Alan John Ainsworth's book Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960 (Intellect, 2022) explores the work of a wide range of American photographers attracted to jazz during the period 1900–60. It …
East Asian Studies July 26, 2022

Designing Reform

Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992

Cole Roskam

Hosted by Ed Pulford
China’s urban landscapes are full of radically different architectural styles which memorialise different eras in the country’s political past, from the remains of imperial palaces or city walls, to Republican-era …
Indian Religions July 21, 2022

Marg Magazine

Readings on the Temple

Naman P. Ahuja

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
In October 1946, shortly before Independence, Mulk Raj Anand founded Marg, a magazine that soon became a pioneering forum for research on Indian and South Asian art and architecture. Over …
American South July 19, 2022

The Tacky South

Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word “tacky” has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called “tackies” who tacked horses …
High Theory July 15, 2022

Monuments

A Discussion with Erin L. Thompson

Erin L. Thompson

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Erin L. Thompson talks about monuments, and their role in American public life. Public art intervenes in directly in politics, shaping social behavior in the present. Monuments, in her account …
LGBTQ+ Studies July 13, 2022

Selfie Aesthetics

Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art

Nicole Erin Morse

Hosted by Daniela Meneses Sala
In Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art (Duke University Press, 2022) Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, and …
Israel Studies July 11, 2022

Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons

Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis

Matt Reingold

Hosted by Akin Ajayi
Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis (Lexington Books, 2022) by Matt Reingold, published by Lexington Books as part of its Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature …
Architecture July 8, 2022

Formulations

Architecture, Mathematics, Culture

Andrew Witt

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
In Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture (MIT Press, 2022), Andrew Witt examines the visual, methodological, and cultural intersections between architecture and mathematics. The linkages Witt explores involve not the mystic transcendence …
Critical Theory July 6, 2022

Art in the After-Culture

Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

Ben Davis

Hosted by Louisa Hann
It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic experience is both overshadowed by the spectacle of current events …
Art July 6, 2022

Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures

Ashley Remer and Tiffany Isselhardt

Hosted by Allison Leigh
Who are the girls that helped build America? Conventional history books shed little light on the influence and impact of girls’ contributions to society and culture. This oversight is challenged …
Art July 5, 2022

Social Dissonance

Mattin

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
We are not what we think we are. Our self-image as natural individuated subjects is determined behind our backs: historically by political forces, cognitively by the language we use, and …
Literary Studies July 4, 2022

Hidden Hands

The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

Mary Wellesley

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded …
High Theory July 4, 2022

Biscuit Art

A Discussion with Ella Hawkins

Ella Hawkins

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Ella Hawkins talks about the biscuits she makes, inspired by her research on Elizabethan dress, and on everything from William Morris wallpapers to TV shows like Outlander and Game of …
General History July 4, 2022

A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues

Peter Hughes

Hosted by Lia Paradis
The ongoing debate surrounding who gets to determine the subjects of public commemoration, particularly in the form of statues, has become more heated over the past few years. In his …
German Studies July 1, 2022

The Hygienic Apparatus

Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder

Paul Dobryden

Hosted by Paul Lerner
The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder (Northwestern UP, 2022) traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany’s Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth …
Art July 1, 2022

The ABC of the Projectariat

Living and Working in a Precarious Art World

Kuba Szreder

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Labour has taken an about-turn. From Adam Smith’s proposal for specialisation which saw the factory line reorganised so that each worker needed to understand only a small aspect of the …