CURRENT LECTURES & EVENTS

 

Spring 2008
An Evening With...
Lecture Series & Other Events

 

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February 11
"Modernism, Anxiety and the Ideology of Arab Vision"
Abstract
Stephen Sheehi
Associate Professor of Arab Culture
University of South Carolina

February 18
"The Maghreb Connection:
Counter-geographies in the Sahara"
Bio & Abstract
Ursula Biemann
Artist & Curator
Institute for Art and Design Theory
Zurich, Switzerland

March 13
Thursday at noon in room 7-431 (AVT) (map)
“A Brief Report on Contemporary Art in Syria”
Anneka Lenssen
PhD Candidate and recipient of the 2007 AKPIA@MIT Travel Grant.

March 17
"Arab Aesthetics Reconsidered:
Art Today"
Bio
Nada Shabout
Sping 2008 AKPIA@MIT Lecturer
Assistant Professor of Art History
University of North Texas

April 28
"Framings of the Tradition:
The Career of Miniature Painting in South Asia"
Bio & Abstract
Nadeem Omar Tarar
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, National College of Art
Lahore, Pakistan

Unless noted, events are on Mondays at 5:30 pm
in MIT room 3-133 (map).
Events are free and open to the public.

Access to the HTC@MIT Calendar
Includes all Architecture Department and Department of Urban Studies activities, as well the MIT Galleries exhibits.


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