Past Events

Alexander Nemerov, the 2024-25 Una's Lecturer, is joined in conversation by UC Berkeley professor of English Elisa Tamarkin.

Art historian Alexander Nemerov is the author of many books, including Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and named by Vogue one of the best books of the year.

Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa, as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the city of Durban.

Luciana Parisi (Duke University) explores technology and its role in the transformation of culture and thought, asking what becomes of philosophy in an era of algorithms.

David Bates offers a new history of human intelligence, arguing that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

Eva Horn (University of Vienna) is founding director of the Vienna Anthropocene Network and author of The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age.

In his wry meditation on aging, Thomas Farber memorializes lost friends and takes the measure of our current moment.

The BAMPFA exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration explores the enduring impressions of the Great Migration as seen through the eyes and work of twelve contemporary artists. In this conversation, the show's co-curators reflect upon the exhibition, from its planning and development to the impact of its ongoing national tour.

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik examines the increasing threats to the institutions of liberal democracy that guarantee free political debate.

Shannon Steen explores how discourses of creativity can seduce us into joining a worldview that justifies structural inequalities, environmental degradation, and other aspects of contemporary capitalism that we might otherwise find troubling.