Past Events

“Marx’s Theory of Communism”

With Avenali Resident Fellow Gareth Stedman Jones
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

A conversation with Paul Thomas (Political Science).

“Reviewing Art”

With Avenali Lecturer Joan Acocella
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Acocella with Alla Efimova (Judah L. Magnes Museum), Ramona Naddaff (Rhetoric), and Joshua Kosman (San Francisco Chronicle); moderated by Anthony J. Cascardi (Director, Consortium for the Arts).

“Dancing Girls”

With Avenali Lecturer Joan Acocella
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A discussion with Joan Acocella specifically geared toward undergraduates, on dance, gender, and life at The New Yorker.

| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Panel Discussants: Joan Acocella, Joe Goode (Theater, Dance and Performance Studies), Wendy Lesser (Editor, The Threepenny Review) and Suzana Sawyer (Anthropology, UC Davis)

Joan Acocella, Dance Critic

“Ballet and Sex”
Avenali Lecture
| Morrison Reading Room, Doe Library

Joan Acocella is a dance and book critic for The New Yorker. She has served as the senior critic and reviews editor for Dance Magazine and New York dance critic for London’s Financial Times.

"Bearing Witness on Art and Feminist Politics in South Asia"

With Avenali Resident Fellow Sheba Chhachhi
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| 2063 Valley Life Sciences Building

At this workshop, Chhachhi discusses the slippage between the unmediated “truth” of testimony and the highly mediated statements made by artists around the same experience.