CELTIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Daniel G. Williams, Professor, University of Swansea; Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University
CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Kerstin Storm, University of Münster Perceptions of old age and aging in so-called traditional China are often reduced to two extremes: on the one hand, respect for the elderly, commonly associated with the Confucian cardinal...
NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Kamalani Johnson, Brown University In the decades following the 1898 U.S. annexation of Hawaiʻi, the Territorial government deployed a coordinated legislative and institutional architecture designed to fragment...
VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKER: Kristel Smentek, MIT Department of Architecture To frame a picture is to distinguish it, to mark it as demanding a form of visual attention that is different from every day seeing. This paper probes...
BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Briana Brightly, Harvard University When imagining the creation of Buddhist art, few picture the artist observing dissections, studying materia medica, or diagramming disease. Yet this is precisely what happened in...