Talks on Modernity and the Renaissance
The HTC Forum is the main lecture series of the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art Program. It is organized by graduate students and made possible by the Lipstadt-Stieber Fund. Other talks organized by faculty may also be listed among the Forum lectures. All of them are open to the public and free.
Directions to the Long Lounge (7-429): From 77 Massachusetts Avenue, go up the steps and enter, you are in building 7. Take the elevator that is in the back left-hand corner to the fourth floor and exit to the left (alternatively take the stairs located near the elevator behind a set of double doors, exit to the right). Go straight and The Long Lounge is on your left-hand side. The general location can be seen on the campus map. However, it will not show a specific room location.
Feb 26
5:00 PM
3-333
Talks on Modernity and the Renaissance
Mar 05
5:00 PM
3-333
Talks on Modernity and the Renaissance
Mar 07
5:00 PM
3-270
Talks on Modernity and the Renaissance
Mar 19
6:30 PM
Long Lounge, (7-429)
Masha Salazkina's work incorporates transnational approaches to film theory and cultural history with a focus on early Soviet Union, Latin America, and Italy. Her recent book In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico (University of Chicago Press, 2009) positions Eisenstein's unfinished Mexican project and theoretical writings within the wider context of post-revolutionary Mexico and global cultures of modernity.
Apr 09
6:30 PM
Long Lounge, (7-429)
The development of a successful optical telegraph network in France in the early 1790s transformed the ways in which information could be transmitted across space and time. This semaphoric system, devised by Claude Chappe, was an important and widespread means of communication until the introduction of electromagnetic telegraphy rendered it obsolete in the 1850s. Operating in public, but conveying secret messages, optical telegraphy emerged at a time when the legibility of signs and the use of images for political ends were increasingly pressing issues.