A Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Jian Chen
September 20, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm
Jian Chen, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU
Prior to the multimedia convergence initiated by mass digitalization, documentary and pornographic film/video offered the experiences of communicability and interactivity now attributed to “post-cinematic” multimedia. Pornography and documentary are arguably anti-cinematic [...]
Brown Bag Lunch Talk
April 5, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 PM
Sandeep Parmar, CSGS Visiting Scholar
Hope Mirrlees’ (1887-1978) psychogeographical long poem Paris (published by the Hogarth Press in 1920) is a prime example of modernist writing that predates (and perhaps influenced) T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. This talk will consider some previously unacknowledged [...]
March 1, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 PM
Amber Musser, Gender Politics, Draper Program, NYU
Imagine that you were in love with the Golden Gate Bridge? What would this mean to you? What kind of relationship would develop? This talk is an exploration of objectum sexuals–people who form meaningful and erotic relationships with objects. By [...]
February 8, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 PM
Katie Brewer Ball, Doctoral Candidate, Performance Studies, NYU
The “more speculative genres,” as Junot Diaz calls them, such as science fiction and fantasy continue to enthusiastically capture the attention and interest of the American public. What precisely, is the draw that such stories hold for mass consumers, [...]
Rebecca Colesworthy, Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought, NYU
December 7, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 PM
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 41-51 East 11th Street, Room 709 between University Place and Broadway wheelchair access at 85-87 University Place between 11th & 12th Streets
This talk proposes a connection between [...]