Spring 2024 Events SIGRID WEIGEL “Images of the A-Visible” ADAM KUPER “The Crisis of the Museum of Other People” CONFERENCE: Monuments Fall: An East-West Exchange PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE: Bill Deverell (USC), Catherine Gudis (UCR), Miloš Jovanović (UCLA), Wendy Salmond (Chapman University), Linda Kaljundi (Estonian Academy of Arts), Mischa Gabowitsch (University of Vienna), Sofia Dyak (Lviv Center for Urban History) Fall 2023 Events NOÉMIE ETIENNE “Dioramas, Life-Casts, and the Lives of Sensitive Images: When Was This? And Did It Ever Happen?” JEAN-FRANÇOIS STASZAK “Bousbir, Casablanca’s Colonial Red Light District” NORA A. TAYLOR “Lenin’s Shadow in Hanoi and Other Responses to Monuments by Contemporary Vietnamese Artists in the Age of Decoloniality” Spring 2023 Events ROLAND BETANCOURT “Simulacral Time: Historical Ethics, Recuperation, and the Byzantine Past.” SUSIE LINFIELD “How, and why, does an image become an icon? And why—or does—this matter?” JAMES CAHILL; MARGARET COHEN “Jacques Cousteau: Seeing Underwater and the Making of an Icon of Environmentalism.” Fall 2022 Events MARIA STAVRINAKI BOOK TALK: Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time. J. LORAND MATORY “Slavery in the Heart of Freedom: Race, Religion, and Politics through the Lens of BDSM” ASHLEY THOMPSON “Aniconic Icons: Time and Gender in the Body of Angkor Wat” Spring 2022 Events DAVID FREEDBERG “They Knew No Better: On the Dialectics of Image Removal” LAUREL KENDALL “The Power and Eccentricity of Balinese Temple Masks” H. GLENN PENNY; Responses by NANCY LUTKEHAUS, DEBORA SILVERMAN “Future Visions from the Past, or How to Salvage Ethnological Museums for the Future” Fall 2021 Events Matthias de Groof (filmmaker); Fiori Berhane (Anthropology, USC); Megan Luke (Art History, USC); Debora Silverman (History, UCLA); Stephanie Spray (Anthropology and Cinema, USC) “Palimpsest of the Africa Museum: Screening and Roundtable Discussion” CAROLINE WALKER BYNUM “The Tyranny of Morphology and the Presence of Things” Spring 2021 Events JEFFREY HAMBURGER “Diagrams in the Latin West” MAIA KOTROSITS “The Lives of Objects and the Frustrations of Memorialization in Early Christianity” MIRJAM BRUSIUS “People Inside Ruins: Heritage and Counter Archives” Fall 2020 Events CHRISTOPHER S. WOOD Seminar launch: Conversation with Christopher S. Wood (German Department, NYU) about his new book, A History of Art History DELL UPTON “Monuments and Crimes” SILVIA TOMÁŠKOVÁ “Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea”
