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Winter term 2024/25 (latest version on LSF)

Winter term 2024/25 (VLV of the AI; last update: July, 30, 2024)

Guesttalks in winter term 24/25

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30.10.24, 6.30 pm, "lecture series ON ENVIRONMENT", with a guest lecture by Etienne Benson (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), room A 125, LMU Main Building

13.11.24, 6.30 pm, "lecture series ON ENVIRONMENT", with a guest lecture by Karen M’Closkey (University of Pennsylvania), room A 125, LMU Main Building

20.11.2024, 6 pm, “Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad — German Book Launch”, guest lecture and book launch by Prof. Dr. David Savran (City University of New York), Studiobühne TWM, Co-Organized with Theater Studies

20.11.2024, 6.30 pm, “Hiding from the Apocalypse: How the World’s Wealthiest View the Future”, public lecture with Amitav Ghosh (Indian novelist), Große Aula, E120, LMU Main Building

10.12.2024, “Pamphlets, Manifestoes and its Publics”, guest talk by Janet Lyons (Pennsylvania State University)

11.12.24, 6.30 pm, "lecture series ON ENVIRONMENT", with a guest lecture by Anne Rademacher, (Technical University Munich), room A 125, LMU Main Building

12.12.2024, 7pm, Amerikahaus, "Antiblackness and the Politics of the Visual", guest talk by Prof. Dr. Kimberly Juanita Brown (Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life, Dartmouth College), co-organized with the BAA

29.01.2025, 6.30 pm, "lecture series ON ENVIRONMENT", with a guest lecture by Joshua Shannon (University of Maryland), room A 125, LMU Main Building

06.02.2025, Amerikahaus, Workshop: "Art, Beauty, and Visualizing Social Change: The Politics and Aesthetics of Environmental Photography”, with guest lectures by

  • Steven Hoelscher (University of Texas, Austin), “Visualizing the Environment: American Landscape Photography from Ansel Adams to Dawoud Bey”,
  • Joshua Shannon (University of Maryland), "How to Forget Nature: The Photography of Stephen Shore",
  • Conohar Scott (independent scholar and photographer), "Framing Resistance: The Role of Activism in Environmental Photograph",
  • Bergit Arends (Courtault, London)
  • Simone Förster (Kuratorin, Pinakothek der Moderne)

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