Upcoming Events

SPEAKERS AND EVENTS 2009-2010

All events are free and open to the public.

Thursday, November 12, 2009
Reception 5:30 p.m.   Lecture 6:00 p.m.
W. J. T. Mitchell
Editor, Critical Inquiry
University of Chicago
Cortelyou Commons
2324 N Fremont Street

Mitchell's talk, "Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, Poussin," will deal with the religious prohibition on visual representations of the deity, iconoclasm, and the tendency for these issues to be played out in forms of ethnic cleansing and genocide.  Discussion will also deal with the 2009 invasion of the Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Time TBD
Peter Steeves
DePaul University
"Visualized Violence"
DePaul Student Center, room 120
2250 N Sheffield Avenue

Monday, April 12, 2010
Reception 5:30 p.m.   Lecture 6:00 p.m.
James Elkins
Visual and Critical Studies
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"Farewell to Visual Studies"

Munroe Hall, room 114
2312 N Clifton Avenue

Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Reception 5:30 p.m.   Lecture 6:00 p.m.
Dave Hickey
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"On Art and Democracy"
DePaul Student Center, room 120
2250 N Sheffield Avenue

The Reality Reality Show
Peter Steeves
DePaul University
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Time TBD
DePaul Student Center, room 120
2250 N Sheffield Avenue

Past events:

Monday, September 28, 2009
Reception 5:30 p.m.   Lecture 6:00 p.m.
John Barrell
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
University of York
"Edward Pugh at Carreg Carn March Arthur"
DePaul Student Center, room 314
2250 N Sheffield Avenue

The lecture will focus on the very little-known Welsh-speaking artist Edward Pugh (1760-1813), the son of a barber, who in 1794 published, in London, a series of six engravings of the area around his home town, Ruthin in Denbighshire, 200 miles away.

John Barrell is Professor of Eighteenth Century Studies at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York in England. He has published widely on the literature, history and art of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain, focusing on language, landscape, law, empire, theories of society and progress, and the theory of painting. Professor Barrell is Fellow of the British Academy and of the English Association, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters of the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books including Imagining the King's Death (2000); and The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s (2006).

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Reception 5:30 p.m.   Lecture 6:00 p.m.
Chris Green
DePaul University
"New Works of Poetry"
DePaul Student Center, room 314
2250 N Sheffield Avenue

Jessica Hagedorn
In Conversation with Wei Ming and Laura Kina
"Miscegenating the Discourse: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Literature" a part of The President's Signature Series 2009-2010

Thursday, October 22, 2009
6:00 p.m.
DePaul University Art Museum
2350 N Kenmore

What does it mean to be a Mixed Asian American Writer/Artist?

Mixed Race Studies scholar Wei Ming Dariotis, Assistant Professor Asian American Studies San Francisco State University, and Laura Kina, DePaul University Associate Professor Art, Media and Design, Vincent dePaul Professor and Director Asian American Studies, will take on identity, categorization, and issues specific to Asian American mixed heritage populations in their dialogue with award winning writer, screenwriter and performer, Jessica Hagedorn, author of Dogeaters, Dream Jungle, The Gangster of Love, Danger And Beauty, and editor of Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World. Her next novel, Toxicology, will be published by Viking Penguin in 2011.This event is co-sponsored by Asian American Studies, The Cultural Center, English, The President’s Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, OMSA, and The Women’s Center.

Friday, November 6, 2009
Peter Steeves
DePaul University
"Cezanne's Apples"

NOTE: This event has been canceled