Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! This talk revisits the much-maligned joke question of 20th century literary critical debates, "How many children had Lady Macbeth?," taking the problem of what counts as a child, and how a child comes (or does not come) […]

Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! This talk explores the concept of “expanded” elaborated by Gene Youngblood and Rosalind Krauss to argue that expanding spatial dimensions move into extreme spaces and their entanglements to critically make us sense slices of a time period […]

Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! The goal of Tanya's multimodal project, which consists of a scholarly book, Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Interstices of Cinema, and a remixed essay film, This Video Does Not Exist, is to reevaluate film historical objects […]

Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891), the famous historian and biblical exegete, penned his commentary to the Song of Songs in 1871 to counter rising antisemitism fueled by racialized fantasies of Jewish gender and sexuality. Graetz contested antisemitic tropes of Jewish manhood and womanhood by reconfiguring […]

Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! The smells of the human body are generally considered abject, unwanted and never polite. Much of western culture is designed to minimize these odors—deodorants, toothpastes, mouthwash, laundry detergents, soaps, room deodorizers, as well the modern toilet. Historically, odors and myths of their effects, […]

Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Materials embody the capacity to carry, preserve, and reveal the memory of places and users. When original materials are modified or eliminated, the identity of places is partially lost. This presentation examines the loss of material memory in the American landscape through processes of ground occupation and material modification […]

This event was rescheduled from November 18.   Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! In this presentation, Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller uses the concept of the impossible to explore the political and intellectual ideas of African-born and African-identified persons in post-emancipation Cuba who dared to imagine a future for […]

Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! John Locke called figurative language and the art of rhetoric an abuse of language used "for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment".  Meanwhile, the 17th and 18th centuries were a flourishing time for a […]

DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THE TALK WILL BE VIA ZOOM. Click here to join the Zoom meeting! Exploring fiction and film from Spain’s twenty-first century, Culleton is interested in the forces of the globalized world that bring people together. Some of us acknowledge global connectedness in an empirical sense, through the science of climate change, […]