# The Norton Lectures with Steve McQueen: Pulse | Lecture Six: "7th November" ![Steve McQueen](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2025-08/MHCH_Web_Banner_1920x1080.jpg?h=c9dfce20&itok=w_lCm6_d) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **May 5, 2026** 06:00PM - 07:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Sanders Theatre** *Photo: James Stopforth, Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery* ### [THE NORTON LECTURES](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/norton-lectures) ### 2025-26 Norton Professor of Poetry: [Steve McQueen](https://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/steve-mqueen/) ### Discussant: [Noam M. Elcott](https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/noam-m-elcott), Columbia University ### Featured Performer: [Dom Flemons](https://www.theamericansongster.com/), Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist --- #### The 2025-26 Norton Lectures | Steve McQueen: Pulse #### Norton Lecture Six: "7th November" This event will feature a screening of McQueen's artwork '7th November' (23 mins, 2001), a film in which McQueen’s cousin tells the story of a tragic event. McQueen will be joined by previous guest speaker [Noam Elcott](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__arthistory.columbia.edu_content_noam-2Dm-2Delcott&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=Qj7ODByVDUJMyt0QClBbkwz1ee-XFGh0ag0Oju26O8Q&m=-qzPwB9OW1LbzPEMWS0qrsQciNOVBastztkVxOwAfVFIl3jN0liEi5rETLETIeLF&s=j9jiC-eB9-_6VpoWImvS7OWWnMBb9uCbIUDV7c84rT8&e=) (Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University and Fellow, Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, MOMA) to discuss the state of where we are now politically, socially and artistically. The conversation will end with a musical performance by [Dom Flemons](https://www.theamericansongster.com/), the multi-instrumentalist known as "The American Songster". **This is the sixth and final of six Norton Lectures with Steve McQueen. For all Lecture dates and information, click** [**here**](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/norton-lectures)**.** ##### [**Admission is FREE; tickets are required. Tickets can be obtained through the Harvard Box Office.**](https://boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=norton-lectures) Seating is first come, first served. Limit of four tickets per person. Tickets valid until 5:45pm. ##### Tickets will be available in advance one week prior to each lecture starting at noon online, in person at the Smith Campus Center box office, or by phone. Handling fees apply for online and phone sales. Tickets also available in person at Sanders Theatre starting two hours prior to each lecture, subject to availability. **Free parking for all six Norton Lectures is available at the Broadway Garage, located at** [**7 Felton Street**](https://goo.gl/maps/3L4ZpjH7PUkk82jJA)**, between Broadway and Cambridge Streets. Please email** [**mahindrahumanities@harvard.edu**](mailto:mahindrahumanities@harvard.edu) **to receive your parking QR code for garage access.** #### About the Speakers [**Steve McQueen**](https://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/steve-mqueen/) is recognized internationally as one of the most important artists of his generation. His work explores universal themes, often addressing painful and challenging histories and exposing the fragility of the human condition. Awarded the Turner Prize in 1999, McQueen has had his artwork presented at some of the most significant venues and museums around the world. His work has been featured in Documenta, he represented Great Britain at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, and was selected several times for the Venice Biennale’s central pavilion. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Art Institute of Chicago; Schaulager, Basel; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. In 2019 he presented YEAR 3 at Tate Britain and had a major solo exhibition at Tate Modern in 2020 which toured to Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan in 2022. In Spring 2023, he presented *Grenfell* at the Serpentine South Gallery, London. In 2024 McQueen unveiled a new installation, Bass, co-commissioned by Dia and Schaulager Basel, at Dia Beacon in New York. McQueen has directed four feature films. His first, *Hunger* (2008), was awarded the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and his third, *12 Years a Slave* (2013), received the Golden Globe, Oscar, and BAFTA awards for best picture in 2014. In 2020, he made *Small Axe*, an anthology of five films about London’s West Indian community and, in 2021, *Uprising*, a 3-part documentary with James Rogan, about the New Cross Fire in London in 1981. His documentary film, *Occupied City*, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023. *Blitz*, his most recent feature, about the Second World War, had its world premiere as the opening film of the 68th BFI London Film Festival. [**Noam M. Elcott**](https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/noam-m-elcott) is Associate Professor for the history of modern art at Columbia. Elcott is the author of the award-winning book *Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media* (University of Chicago Press, 2016), as well as essays on art and media from the 19th century to the present, published in leading journals, anthologies, and exhibition catalogues. He co-directed The August Sander Project (MoMA/Columbia, 2016-2021), co-edited a special issue of *Grey Room* on “Art Beyond Copyright” (2024), and is a principal investigator of the Data Science Institute grant on “Art Images and AI: Latent Space Interpretability, Art History, and the Law.” His current book projects are *The Social Status Portrait: August Sander’s People of the Twentieth Century and Art™: A History of Modern Art, Authenticity, and Trademarks.* [**Dr. Dom Flemons**](https://www.theamericansongster.com/about), “The American Songster," received an Honorary Doctorate from Northern Arizona University, is a GRAMMY Award Winner with four GRAMMY nominations, Two-Time EMMY Nominee, International Acoustic Music Award Grand Prize Winner, and was a United States Artists Fellow. He is a musician based in the Chicago area and is famously known as "The American Songster®," with his repertoire covering over one hundred years of American roots music including country, folk, bluegrass, Americana, and the blues. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, historian, actor, narrator, host, slam poet, record collector, podcaster, and the creator, host, and producer of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville, TN. He is considered an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife and rhythm bones. He is the Co-Founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the Founder of American Songster Productions. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors at the Steve Martin Banjo Prize, Folk Alliance International, Music Maker Relief Foundation, and was elected as a Governor on the Board of Directors for the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Recording Academy. #### About the Norton Lectures The [Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry ](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/norton-lectures)was endowed in 1925. Harvard’s preeminent lecture series in the arts and humanities, the Norton Lectures recognize individuals of extraordinary talent who, in addition to their particular expertise, have the gift of wide dissemination and wise expression. The term “poetry” is interpreted in the broadest sense to encompass all poetic expression in language, music, or the fine arts. See also:- [ Norton Lectures ](/event-series/norton-lectures) - [ Public ](/event-type/public) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/node/1619036/event-feed.ics) Copy link link