Critical & Visual Studies

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 Pratt Institute

 200 Willloughby Avenue Brooklyn, NY

“Delany’s Two Principles, The Argument for Emigration, and Revolutionary Black Nationalism”

Please Join us on:

Tuesday, Dec. 6
5:30-7:30
Alumni Reading Room
Bob Gooding-Williams will speak to us next week about  his book project on Martin Delany, the so-called father of black nationalism.  Before reading the paper, he will spend a little time reviewing some of his earlier work on the history of Af-Am political thought and its relevance to critical race theory.   

 Robert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he directs the Center for Race, Philosophy, and Social Justice.  Gooding-Williams is the author of three books: Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism (Stanford, 2001); Look, A Negro! (Routledge, 2005), and In the Shadow of Du Bois(Harvard, 2009).  His areas of research and teaching interest include Social and Political Philosophy, the History of African-American Political Thought, 19th Century European Philosophy, Existentialism, and Aesthetics.

Critical & Visual Studies 

All Events Are Free And Open To Public 

 Pratt Institute 

 200 Willloughby Avenue Brooklyn, NY

Critical & Visual Studies 

All Events Are Free And Open To Public 

 Pratt Institute 

 200 Willloughby Avenue Brooklyn, NY

 Greetings!

 The Social Science and Cultural Studies Department at Pratt Institute would like to welcome you to join us on the 19th of October for a talk by Prof. Liz Knauer on " Transnational intellectual communities", followed by a discussion about a New Center focused on Social Ecologies, Transnationalisms and the Global South moderated by Chairperson Macarena Gomez-Barris. All guests are welcome.

 RSVP via email to Sophia Straker-Babb, Assistant to the Chair, at sbabb25@pratt.edu. Lunch will be served. Looking forward to seeing you!

Pratt Institute
Main Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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For more information about our B. A. major, please visit
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Pratt Institute
Main Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Campus Map & Directions:

http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/visit_pratt/


ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 
For more information about our B. A. major, please visit
http://www.pratt.edu/academics/liberal_arts_and_sciences/critical_visual_studies/

Pratt Institute Admissions
http://www.pratt.edu/admissions/

Pratt Institute
Main Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Campus Map & Directions:

http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/visit_pratt/



ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 
For more information about our B. A. major, please visit
http://www.pratt.edu/academics/liberal_arts_and_sciences/critical_visual_studies/

Pratt Institute Admissions
http://www.pratt.edu/admissions/

Please join us for our next guest presentation! Our next presenter is Gabriel Vignoli, PhD.

Pratt Institute
Main Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/visit_pratt/



ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 
For more information about our B. A. major, please visit
http://www.pratt.edu/academics/liberal_arts_and_sciences/critical_visual_studies/

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Please join us tonight at 5:30 in Pratt Institute's Alumni Reading Room for the next speaker in the Symposium series, Michael Taussig.

Mr.Tuassig was born in Sydney, Australia where he earned a medical degree from the University of Sydney. He then moved to get his PHD in Anthropology in London, and he now resides as a Professor at the University of Columbia.  He left medicine during the Vietnam War in order to chase a new way of thinking. He focused on becoming more acquainted with and to expose the social and political causes of ill health. His work has taken him in majority to Columbia but he has also worked in the US, Palestine, and in Kurdistan. His main goal in his work has been to use his writing to paint the world in a different manner. In order to think and feel thoughts that are normally uncommon. Especially on the topic of thinking itself.

For his his presentation, Mr. Taussig will focus on writing, observation, and the type of consciousness and awareness that they both trigger. .

Pratt Institute
Main Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Campus Map & Directions:

http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/visit_pratt/



ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 
For more information about our B. A. major, please visit
http://www.pratt.edu/academics/liberal_arts_and_sciences/critical_visual_studies/

Pratt Institute Admissions
http://www.pratt.edu/admissions/

Pratt Institute
Main Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Campus Map & Directions:

http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/visit_pratt/



ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 
For more information about our B. A. major, please visit
http://www.pratt.edu/academics/liberal_arts_and_sciences/critical_visual_studies/

Pratt Institute Admissions
http://www.pratt.edu/admissions/

Pratt Institute
Main Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Campus Map & Directions:

http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/visit_pratt/



ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 
For more information about our B. A. major, please visit
http://www.pratt.edu/academics/liberal_arts_and_sciences/critical_visual_studies/

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Bio: I work on the skins of things, excavating histories of technology and media from the surface layers of natural and man-made objects. I use tools from the fields of the history of science and technology, media production, art history, media studies and material culture studies to analyze the production, use, and transformation of often-overlooked, even marginalized, material artifacts located at the interstices of the found and the fabricated.
Through my analysis, I break down increasingly untenable divides between production and consumption, art and technology, and invention and reuse. From camouflage netting, old clothes, decomposing vegetable matter, and other artifacts of creative repurposing, I uncover historical shifts in modern epistemologies of self, nature and representation. Through my work, I not only contribute to the academic fields in which I am based, but also provide a vital historical and creative context for present-day concerns with the engineering of sustainable environments through innovations in transformational and biomimetic technology.
Critical media practice is a working method that both guides my analytic framing and provides interpretive data. As an example, my film Blind (2009) and my site-specific installation Camoufleurs (2008) accompany the book Hide and Seek. Producing the film and the installation, as well as the feedback I received from viewers and other participants, was crucial to the development of my theoretical and historical argument. 

More information: http://web.mit.edu/sts/people/shell.html



 

During the 1st millennium CE in South Asia, developing Hindu sects drew converts from Buddhism. In part, this process was facilitated by the incorporation of Buddhist material symbols and architectural designs into Hindu temples. At the start of the 1st millennium CE, Buddhists focused their ritual devotions on stupas, stylized representations of the Buddha’s burial mound. By the end of the 1st millennium CE, the Buddhist sangha increasingly focused their devotions on Buddha images. In contrast, over the course of the 1st millennium Hindus transformed many of their material symbols and temple designs to forms that resembled earlier Buddhist forms favored by the Buddhist laity. This material transformation of Hindu ritual practice facilitated the conversion of lay Buddhists, and ultimately to the collapse of Monastic Buddhism in India in the early-to-mid 2nd millennium CE.
 
Lars Fogelin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Fogelin studies the archaeology of Buddhism in South Asia. From 1999 through 2006 he directed the Northeast Andhra Monastic Survey, investigating archaeological remains in the landscape surrounding a 2000-year-old Buddhist monastery on the east coast of India. Current research focuses on the origin of Mahayana Buddhism, the development of Buddha images in the 1st millennium CE, and the collapse of Indian Buddhism in the early-to-mid 2nd millennium CE. Fogelin also engages in broader research on the archaeology of religion and the application of the philosophy of science to archaeology.