Visualizing Cities and Historic Spaces: 15 Years of Research in Art History and Digital Visual Studies
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Dean of Humanities, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Information Science + Studies (ISS), and Trinity College
Friday, September 04, 2026
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Screen/Society--"The Samurai and the Prisoner" (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2026)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, September 10, 2026
7:00 pm
Introduced by Prof. Simon Partner (History)
Screen/Society--"I Love Boosters" (2026) + panel discussion w/ dir. Boots Riley, in person!
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Experimental Film Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Humanities Labs@FHI
Thursday, September 17, 2026
1:30 pm
Panel Discussion to follow with writer/director Boots Riley, in conversation with Prof. Franklin Cason (Cinematic Arts/AAHVS), Prof. Michael Hardt (Literature), and Prof. Kathi Weeks (Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies)
Faculty Bookwatch | From Gas Masks to Graphic Design: Reading the Recent Work of Gennifer Weisenfeld
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Libraries
Thursday, September 17, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"I Love Boosters" (2026) + Q&A w/ dir. Boots Riley, in person!
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Experimental Film Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Humanities Labs@FHI
Thursday, September 17, 2026
7:00 pm
Q&A to follow with writer/director Boots Riley
Screen/Society--"About Face: Disrupting Ballet" (2025) w/ dir. Jennifer Lin | AADS Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), and Libraries
Saturday, September 19, 2026
3:00 pm
Discussion to follow with director Jennifer Lin, in conversation with Prof. Jingqiu Guan (Dance)
“Towards an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenology of Whiteness: Madame du Barry, Zamor, and the Racial Politics of Marble”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, November 05, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Dr. Alicia Caticha (Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University)
