Public Events
The Research and Academic Program organizes a variety of scholarly events throughout the year that are free and open to the public. These events include lectures by our fellows in residence, talks by invited scholars, curatorial roundtables, and other special events, in addition to the biannual Clark Conference.
September 18–21, 2024—Afro-Eurasian Origins of Print: A Material, Social and Theoretical History
November 22, 2024—A Clark Symposium: Transformative Futures: Blockchain and the Arts Ecosystem
April 11, 2025—RAP Graduate Student Symposium: Queer Palimpsests: Rewriting Medieval Art History
June 26–28, 2025—Celebrating 25 Years in the Research and Academic Program
LECTURES
September 19, 2024—The Print Fetish with Kristina Richardson (University of Virginia)
September 24, 2024—To Represent, or Not: An Ideology of The Image in The Kingdom Of Ethiopia with Claire Bosc-Tiessé (French National Center for Scientific Research / Clark Fellow)
October 8, 2024—Ixora Coccinea: Propositions for a Public Monument with Andil Gosine (York University / Beinecke Fellow)
October 22, 2024—Here, Low, In This River Bend: Visualizing Bvlbancha's Colonial Ecotones with Adrian Anagnost (Tulane University / Clark Fellow)
October 29, 2024—Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil: A Conversation with Mari Rodriguez Binnie (Williams College)
November 12, 2024—Being Gorgeous is a Duty! Hegemony, Female Bodies and Modern Visual Culture with María Isabel Baldasarre (National University of San Martín, Argentina / Every Page Foundation Fellow)
December 3, 2024—Photography, Antiblackness, and the Politics of the Visual with Kimberly Juanita Brown (Dartmouth College)
December 10, 2024—Uncanny Creatures: A Book Talk with Christophe Koné
February 2, 2025—Alvin Baltrop’s Voyeurism: Sexual Perversity, Race, and the Historical Uses of Photography with Darius Bost (University of Illinois Chicago / Clark/Oakley Fellow)
RAP also organizes and invites proposals for year-round scholarly colloquia and exhibition concept workshops. These more intimate, semi-private convenings allow for sustained inquiry into a particular subject or theme. You may find more information about how to propose a scholarly convenings here.