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Graduate Student Conference

2017 Apr 07

Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art

(All day)

Location: 

Room 110, Barker Center

About

Over the past century, land has become at once a technical and aesthetic object across art and science. On the one hand, scientific and technical programs have emerged—from the testing of atomic weapons in the American West to cobalt mining in the Congo—that occupy vast swaths of the planet. At the same time, new representational practices have emerged in contemporary art to critically engage land and its attendant politics by treating it as the site, theme, and medium of artistic inquiry. 

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2018 Apr 20

Priors and Priorities: Conceiving Time and Other Bodies

(All day)

Location: 

Room 110, Barker Center

Description

The Harvard University Mahindra Center for the Humanities announces the “Priors and Priorities: Conceiving Time and Other Bodies” graduate conference. This interdisciplinary two-day conference takes as its central problematic the temporal displacements that mark the colonial and postcolonial condition. Modernity for Europe in the 18th century inhabited a fundamental paradox, what Elizabeth Povinelli identifies as the “governance of the prior,” where social, political, and economic life relied on an imperial project invested in differential...

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2019 Mar 29

Bad Romance: The Ethics of Love, Sex, and Desire

(All day)

Location: 

Room 110, Barker Center

About

The #MeToo movement has raised questions about the ethics of love, sex, and desire. Narrowly, it has raised questions about sexual consent and violation; broadly, it has raised questions about attraction, power, monogamy, adultery, sex work, and more. Thinkers and artists throughout history, from Plato and Sappho to Foucault and Martha Nussbaum, have addressed these topics. In light of the current crisis in sexual ethics, this graduate student conference reexamines how we should conduct ourselves in romantic and sexual relationships from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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