Art
Bill Nichols (2019)
Jan 20, 2019
“In the Beginning” Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University, a position he has held in 1987. Prior to that, he was a member of the Queen’s University Film Studies Department, where he was Acting Chair from 1976-8 and Chair from 1978-1985. He is [...]
Jenny Sealey (2017)
Oct 04, 2017
“The Arts as a Human Right” Jenny Sealey is the CEO and Artistic Director at Graeae Theatre in London, UK, the country’s flagship disabled-led theatre company. She has been the Artistic Director at the theatre since 1997. Her work has involved the development of a new [...]
Akram Zaatari (2014)
Feb 11, 2014
“Addressed, Folded, Opened, Performed, and Buried: Letters as a Form of Art” Akram Zaatari is a Lebanese filmmaker, photographer, archival artist and curator. His work focuses on collecting, studying and archiving the history of the Arab World. In 1997, he cofounded the [...]
Ariella Azoulay (2011-2012)
Jan 20, 2012
“Toward a Visual Declaration of Human Rights: Revisiting The Family of Man” Ariella Azoulay is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at [...]
Mary Louise Pratt (2009-2010)
Mar 03, 2010
“Globalization and the Ecology of Language” Mary Louise Pratt is an emeritus professor at New York University, where before retirement she was Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures. She studied at the University of Toronto, the [...]
Gauvin A. Bailey (2009-2010)
Feb 20, 2010
“The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Converging Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru” Gauvin A. Bailey is Professor and Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen’s University, a position he has held since 2011. At the time of his talk, Bailey was a professor of Renaissance [...]
Enric Bou i Maqueda (2009-2010)
Feb 10, 2010
“Dali: Secret Writing, Hidden Paint” & “El Mundo Almodovar: Obsesiones Rotas” Enric Bou is professor of Iberian Studies at the University Ca’ Foscari Venezia. He has taught in universities in France, Spain and the USA. His research interests, always from the perspective of [...]
Frederick A. de Armas (2007-2008)
Jan 20, 2008
“Quixotic Frescos: Cervantes and Italian Art” Frederick A. de Armas is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He is a literary scholar, critic and novelist whose [...]
Barbara Kopple (1994-1995)
Jan 20, 1995
“Shades of Grey: The Power and Passion of Documentary Film” Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker. She directs documentaries, as well as narrative television and film. Her recent work includes the film Running from Crazy (2013), about the life of [...]
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1991-1992)
Mar 26, 1992
“Art War with the State: The Writer and Politics in Africa” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is an exiled and widely respected Kenyan playwright, critic and novelist who wrote the novel Matigari ma Njiruungi. He has been at the front of the struggle for democracy and social justice in [...]
Douglas Cardinal (1989-1990)
Mar 12, 1990
“The Museum of Civilization: From Vision to Reality” Douglas Cardinal is an Indigenous Canadian architect best known for his designs for the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. He also designed the [...]
Moshe Safdie (1989-1990)
Mar 05, 1990
“Architecture vs. the Arts” Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. He designed the National Gallery of Canada, as well as the Musee de la Civilisation in Quebec City, the Toronto Ballet Opera House, and Expo ’67’s Habitat. He was born [...]