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The Transnational Samurai: Nation-building and Community Searching in the Twentieth Century Italian Far-right
Green Hall 0-S-9This talk explores the origin and development of the Italian fascination with Japanese samurais in the aftermath of the 1904 Russo-Japanese War and the rise of a young, nationalistic movement […]
Dangerous Flight: Amerindian Featherwork, Michelangelo, and the Violence of Natural History
Louis A. Simpson International Building - A71In Michelangelo’s drawings for Tommaso de’ Cavalieri the motifs of wings and feathers have long been understood to serve metaphorical ends, alluding simultaneously to Neoplatonic concepts of divine ascent and […]
Antikythera: Philosophy of Planetary Computation in the Design Studio (Recent Projects and Provocations)
219 Aaron Burr HallAs Stanisław Lem once put it, some technologies are instrumental, providing a means through which to change the world, but others are ultimately existential in significance, revealing aspects of reality […]