Studying Concubinage: Gender and Sources Across the Mediterranean
209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell, Princeton
Rebooting Jewish Television: “Transparent,” Streaming Media, and Foundation-Backed Culture
101 McCormick 101 McCormick Hall, PrincetonWhat effects do new distribution technologies and current philanthropic practices have on the production of contemporary culture? This talk takes as a case study Jill Soloway’s Transparent, which was the first streaming video production to beat out broadcast and cable television networks at the Golden Globes and Emmy Awards, and has been described by the […]
Human Scale: Utopia in the Era of Climate Change
Hinds Library, McCosh Hinds Library, McCosh, PrincetonProfessor Morgan's talk stems from his book project, Human Scale: The Aesthetics of Climate Change. He will give an overview of this book project along with a discussion of the chapter on late-Victorian ecoutopias (William Morris, Samuel Butler, and others).
M+M: Lucia Allais: Designs of Destruction
N107 School of ArchitectureBetween 1943 and 1945, the Allied Air Forces produced aerial photographs of 79 Italian cities, annotated them with the location of monuments, and appended them with elaborate instructions for aerial bombers on “how to miss cultural sites.” Similar lists and maps of monuments were produced by the Allies for almost every country in Europe, expanded […]
