Lectures and Panels

Newhouse Center faculty fellow Nikki A. Greene discusses her ongoing research project, “Sugar makes me cry”: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and the Performance of Bittersweet Histories.

Independent film producer Linda Reisman discusses the role of film producers and the work involved in film making, from the development of a script to the film’s distribution. Reception with refreshements to follow.

Author and environmental media scholar Hunter Vaughan examines the environmental effects of filmmaking, from Hollywood classics to the digital era, considering how popular screen media shape and reflect our understanding of the natural world.

Eve’s role in the fall of Eden might suggest that women are intrinsically morally corrupt. Newhouse Fellow Julie Walsh contends that what happened in the garden is much more complicated than some believe.

Dr. Marisol LeBrón will give a lecture on her recent book Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (2019),

This exhibition, one of the most complete historical portfolios of Havana’s notable buildings, presents architecture as a critical artistic and historical component of the city.

The first in a series of three conversations via Skype between Davis curators and artists Haley Morris-Cafiero, Habiba Nowrose, and Fatimah Tuggar.

Does dignity still matter? Sociologist Bradley Campbell discusses how new rivals to dignity culture have emerged and how, in politics and at universities, victimhood and incivility often seem to prevail.

Sociologist Eve L. Ewing discusses her book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, and the story of Chicago’s 2013 mass public school closures, from their unfolding to their aftermath.

Second in a series of three conversations via Skype between Davis curators and artists Haley Morris-Cafiero, Habiba Nowrose, and Fatimah Tuggar.

Angela Stent, professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University, discusses her new book, in which she explores the ambitions, successes, and challenges of Putin’s Russia on the global stage.

In this presentation, Before the Graphic Memoir: Female Sketchbooks and Visual Chronicles of Love and War, Yale University professor of English Katie Trumpener explores the history of the graphic novel.

Join William E. Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University, for a talk on the life of the Renaissance artist Michelangelo and the building of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

This annual lecture pays tribute to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and his enormous contribution to advancing civil rights in the United States.

Newhouse Center faculty fellow Rebecca Summerhays discusses her ongoing research project: the Novel on the Defensive: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, William Paley’s Natural Theology, and the Human Machine.

Join Amanda Gilvin, Sonja Novak Koerner '51 Senior Curator and Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs, in a disucssion of Home’s Horizons, a major solo exhibition that investigates history, technology, and the home.

Black Spaces Matter, organized by architect and architectural historian Pamela Karimi, explores the sustainable renewal of the American Post-industrial city through New Bedford, MA's extraordinary abolitionist history.

The Davis welcomes local K-12 educators for a workshop focused on utilizing resources from the permanent collections and current special exhibition. Explore how to connect the themes and works of art on view with your classroom curricula.

Contemporary artist Marco Maggi will speak about his artwork and his practice. Maggi uses a range of unexpected, everyday items to create drawings, sculptures, and interventions in space.

Yalitza Aparicio, the Academy Award-nominated star of the Mexican film Roma (2018), discusses her experience with professors Irene Mata and Codruta Morari.

StoryCorps CEO Robin Sparkman ’91 discusses the power of storytelling to create empathy and bridge divides and how StoryCorps brings people together to have the most meaningful conversations of their lives.

This symposium brings together a conservator, a curator, and a recent Wellesley graduate to offer new insights on the painting Holy Family with St. Catherine, St. Sebastian, and a Patron.

The capstone in a series of three conversations via Skype between Davis curators and artists Haley Morris-Cafiero, Habiba Nowrose, and Fatimah Tuggar.

Newhouse Center faculty fellow Carol Dougherty discusses her ongoing research project on the Sophocles play Antigone and the challenges of democracy.

A look at the history of Anglo-American iconoclasm and contemporary “progressive” iconoclasm in the U.S.

In this talk Peter Baehr describes Rebecca West’s distinctive brand of liberalism, marked by: individualism against conformism, freedom against censorship, responsibility against immaturity, and empathy against incredulity.