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Past Events

Afghanistan: 20 Years of War

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

October 7, 2021

Samir Gandesha: The Traumatic History of Political Theory

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Online

Conversations with Claywoman

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Online

Christopher Bedford: Structural Change in American Art Museums

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

February 5, 2021

Online

Kris Graves: Race and Place in Contemporary American Photography

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program MPS Digital Photography

December 11, 2020

Online

Frances Fox Piven on the 2020 Election: What Just Happened, and What Now?

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

November 13, 2020

Online

Unsanitized: The Politics of Coronavirus

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

October 16, 2020

Online

CANCELLED

Dangerous Dreams: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman and Jane Dickson

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

CANCELLED

Which Way Forward? The Inaugural SVA Politics Debate – Canceled

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Younger Polish Artists Beyond the Neoliberal Normal

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

January 27, 2020

Who Owns the City? Real Estate v. Art, Architecture and the People

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

December 9, 2019

Frances Fox Piven: Why Americans Don’t Vote and What We Can Do About It

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

November 11, 2019

Bill Arning, “Texas Eccentrics and Queer Renegades: A Curatorial Love Story”

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

October 21, 2019

René Rojas: The Divergent Politics of Latin America's Second Neoliberal Crisis

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Stars, Superstars, Deathstars: The Art of Fame in Ray Johnson and Andy Warhol

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Mochila: Small Journals and Independent Publishing

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Anti-Capitalist Feminist Speaker Series Presents: Art & Direct Action

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

February 25, 2019

Benjamin Y. Fong: Aggressivity, Technology and the Crisis of Thinking

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

January 18, 2019

Democracy and the Poor: Prolegomena to a Radical Theory of Democracy

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

December 3, 2018

Frances Fox Piven: What Just Happened? The Resistance After the Midterms

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

November 12, 2018

Geography and the Economic Imagination of Development

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

October 15, 2018