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HoTE Preview: Sayak Valencia "From Gore Capitalism to Snuff Politics: The Body as Mass Media&qu

HoTE Preview: Sayak Valencia "From Gore Capitalism to Snuff Politics: The Body as Mass Media&qu

Transfeminist philosopher, essayist, and performance artist, Sayak Valencia, will be presenting her lecture, “From Gore Capitalism to Snuff Politics: The Body as Mass Media,” on Thursday, March 5, from 5:30-7:30 at the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Valencia is a Professor and Researcher at the Department of Cultural Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Baja California, México. She has published four books in Spanish: Jueves Fausto (2004

HoTE Review: Claire Colebrook's "What Would You Do (And Who Would You Kill) in Order to Sav

HoTE Review: Claire Colebrook's "What Would You Do (And Who Would You Kill) in Order to Sav

This is an exciting year for the Humanities on the Edge speaker series, as it is celebrating its 10th year. The second of this year’s speakers was Dr. Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. Her research interests include contemporary literature, theory and cultural studies, visual culture, and the works of Gilles Deleuze. Dr. Colebrook gave a talk entitled “What would you d

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Claire Colebrook

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Claire Colebrook

In keeping with the Halloween spirit, the next lecturer in the Humanities on the Edge speaking series, Dr. Claire Colebrook, will focus on the concept of extinction within post-apocalyptic films. Dr. Colebrook is currently an Edwin Erle Sparks professor of English, Philosophy, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Colebrook will present her talk, “What would you do (and who would you kill) in order to save the world?: Post-Apocalypti

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Annie McClanahan

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Annie McClanahan

As we begin the first semester of the 2019/20 school year, we anticipate the resumption of the Humanities on the Edge speaking series, celebrating its 10th year of operating. To help us kick off the school year right, Dr. Annie McClanahan, associate professor of English at UC Irvine, will be presenting a talk titled “Tipwork, Gigwork, and Automation” from 5:30 to 7:00 in the Sheldon Museum of Art on Thursday September 5th. Dr. McClanahan’s research interests include “Contempo

HotE Review: Charlotte Biltekoff’s “Real Food / Real Facts: Truth, Politics, and Power in the U.S. F

HotE Review: Charlotte Biltekoff’s “Real Food / Real Facts: Truth, Politics, and Power in the U.S. F

On Thursday, April 18, Dr. Charlotte Biltekoff, author of Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health and Associate Professor of American Studies and Food Science and Technology, UC Davis, gave the final Humanities on the Edge lecture of the 2018-2019 academic year to a room filled to capacity at the Sheldon Museum of Art. Dr. Biltekoff began by contextualizing the boom in awareness and interest in natural food through the history of Natural Products Exp

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Charlotte Biltekoff

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Charlotte Biltekoff

Charlotte Biltekoff, Associate Professor of American Studies and Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis, will present her talk “Real Food / Real Facts: Truth, Politics, and Power in the U.S. Food and Information Landscape.” You can expect to see her in Lincoln, Nebraska on Thursday, April 18th from 5:30-7:00p at the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. In addition to Biltekoff’s engaging talk that evening, she will be offering a work

HotE Review: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s “Cultivating Online Spaces: Social Media as Laboratory”

HotE Review: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s “Cultivating Online Spaces: Social Media as Laboratory”

It is no secret that many of us, no matter our political affiliation, have come to rely on the connections and communities we find online. It’s also no secret, by now, that online communities are ripe for manipulation, that our information is bought and sold, and that issues of privacy and security abound. Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University's Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in SFU School of Communication, is not one to despair in the face of all this. He

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Wendy Chun

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Wendy Chun

Continuing with this year’s theme of “Post-Truth Futures,” Wendy Chun will kick-start the spring semester lecture series with “Cultivating Online Spaces: Social Media as Laboratory.” Chun is currently Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication. Before heading north, Chun spent nearly twenty years at Brown University as both Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media. You can expect to see her in Linc

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Lee McIntyre

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Lee McIntyre

In a January 2017 appearance on Meet the Press, Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President, defended then Press Secretary Shawn Spicer’s use of “alternative facts” to describe the crowds at President Trump’s inauguration (Sinderbrand). The contentiousness of the television segment signaled that more was to come of what had already been playing out in media coverage of U.S. politics. As can be seen in this clip, Conway’s interviewer and NBC moderator, Chuck Todd, tried to ta

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Kent A. Ono

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Kent A. Ono

This year’s Humanities on the Edge series addresses the question of “Post-Truth Futures.” The first lecture, “The Rhetoric of Sanctuary in the Post Truth Era,” will come from Kent A. Ono, Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, on Thursday, October 11, at 5:30pm in the Sheldon Museum of Art. In his 2012 essay “Borders that Travel: Matters of the Figural Border,” Ono discusses the definition of borders not at the material level but the figural.

Humanities on the Edge Review: Bridget R. Cooks

Humanities on the Edge Review: Bridget R. Cooks

At the center of Professor Bridget R. Cooks’ lecture, “Black Artists and Activism: Harlem on My Mind, 1969,” was the projected photograph and cover of her book, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum. A curated endeavor—Cooks staged the photo which features her parents looking upon works of art, her own ghost-like image walking through the gallery, and a museum guard standing in the corner—she explained that this kind of curation was critical: she

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Bridget R. Cooks

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Bridget R. Cooks

In 1969, under the direction of curator Allon Schoener, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened an exhibition titled Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968, which aimed to represent the cultural history of Harlem. The exhibit was comprised of photographs (which at the time were not considered to be fine art) that depicted the people and buildings of Harlem. Despite being the first exhibition of African-American art at the museum, the exhibit did not inc

Seeing '68: HotE Review, "No Intenso Agora" ("In the Intense Now")

Seeing '68: HotE Review, "No Intenso Agora" ("In the Intense Now")

Last Friday evening, February 9th, João Moreira Salles visited the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center to screen his new documentary film essay No Intenso Agora (In the Intense Now). Following the screening of the film—which was presented as a part of the Ross’s Norman A. Geske Cinema Showcase as well as the Humanities on the Edge lecture series—Salles appeared for a Q&A with the audience. No Intenso Agora combines archival footage, both professional and found amateur footage,

Humanities on the Edge Preview: João Moreira Salles’ "No Intenso Agora" ("In the Inte

Humanities on the Edge Preview: João Moreira Salles’ "No Intenso Agora" ("In the Inte

Continuing the theme of this academic year’s Humanities on the Edge speakers, João Moreira Salles addresses images and aftermath of revolution in his documentary film No Intenso Agora (In the Intense Now). The film uses archival found footage--as well as footage taken by Salles’s own mother on a tour through Maoist China in 1966--in order to explore the many faces of revolution in the late 1960s, and particularly the 1968 revolutionaries of Paris and Prague. In his review of

Poetic Flight: HotE Review, Ronald Judy

Poetic Flight: HotE Review, Ronald Judy

“Humanity can progress of its own accord” were the last words of Professor Ronald Judy’s lecture, “Restless Flying from Haiti to Tunisia: What is ‘After Revolution’ Anyway?” I begin this review with the conclusion of Dr. Judy’s lecture solely for this reason: after-revolution is just the beginning point of imagining the full capacity of our humanity. At the heart of this year’s Humanities on the Edge series is the concept of “Post Revolutionary Futures." The second lecture of

Restless Imagination: HotE Preview, Ronald Judy

Restless Imagination: HotE Preview, Ronald Judy

The Humanities on the Edge lectures for this academic year take on the question of “Post-Revolutionary Futures.” If Timothy Brown’s recent lecture on the events of 1968 and the Russian Revolution laid the historical groundwork for asking the question, “Is revolution still possible?,” next week’s lecture by Ronald Judy promises to approach this question in terms of the very conditions of imagining revolution and what may follow it. On Thursday, October 19th, at 5:30pm in the S

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Timothy Scott Brown

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Timothy Scott Brown

Timothy Scott Brown’s latest book, West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962-1978, discusses the complex web of political, social, and cultural factors that contributed to the anti-authoritarian movement in West Germany during the 1960’s. Typically associated with the German Student Movement, the critical conversation surrounding the West German Protests of ‘68 often revolve around the widespread desire for social change and dissatisfaction with

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Kirsten Pai Buick

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Kirsten Pai Buick

In a recent interview with BURNAWAY, Kirsten Pai Buick explains what she means by the problem of art history’s black subject, stating that she means problem in “two ways.” First that “problem” designates the artist as someone who is not a white male -- that to be a non-white non-male artist is to be expected to “reproduce your identity very simply in your art.” This is to say that the white male is a blank-canvas (so to speak) that is allowed to execute the “mind, hand and ge

Our So-Called Progress: Humanities on the Edge Review, Alexandre Da Costa

Our So-Called Progress: Humanities on the Edge Review, Alexandre Da Costa

On an evening between the old travel ban and the new one, more than forty days and forty nights after having bid farewell to the first African American, bi-racial president, Alexandre Da Costa continued the conversation on “Post-Racial Futures?” (emphasis on the question mark) with his lecture “Towards a Hemispheric Critique of the Post-Racial.” Public praise for the post-racial, Da Costa explained, is a rhetorical and conceptual smoke screen. It hinges on a strategy of obfus

The Post-Racial Ideology: HotE Preview, Alexandre Da Costa

The Post-Racial Ideology: HotE Preview, Alexandre Da Costa

About two or three years ago, I joined a couple of my friends from high school to have dinner with our old American history teacher. This is a man we respected as an exemplar of good character, an intelligent man who had provoked us those years ago to think critically in new ways about the issues that have shaped our country and the debates that formed our American structures and institutions. The conversation that night, however, felt strangely alien to me despite how predic

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