Season 3 (2021)

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October 12: “What Sort of Problems Does an Artwork Pose?”: Joan Kee on Art History as an Infinite Game

October 19: “Becoming Belonged”: Roberto Tejada on the Political Project of Photography and Poetry

October 26: “How Do We Know What We Know?”: Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi on Fieldwork and Evidence

November 2: “What a Picture Can't Offer”: Michael Gaudio on the Imaginative Work of Sound in Art History 

November 9: “To See the Effects of Sound”: Niall Atkinson on Acoustic Topographies of the Early Modern

November 16: “To Approach the Object from Outside”: Joseph Koerner on History, Trauma, and Wonder  

November 30: “Grounded by a Set of Relations”: Nancy Um on “Horizontal” Cultures within Art History 

December 7: “The Ethics of Seeing”: Kaira M. Cabañas on Creative Care and Art’s Histories

December 14: “Between the Personal and the Historical”: Asma Naeem on Listening to Art and Visual Culture