Townsend Events

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

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.

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.

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.

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 in biography and named by Vogue one of the best books of the year.

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

Considering Judith Butler's “tragic trilogy” — a set of interventions on Sophocles's Antigone, Euripides's Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides — Mario Telò seeks to understand how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy and, ultimately, how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking.

Through bold new analyses of legendary works of German silent cinema, Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the "crisis of historicism" widely diagnosed by German philosophers in the early twentieth century.

Artists Anuj Vaidya and Praba Pilar discuss Larval Rock Stars, their multi-modal conceptual project encompassing digital, textual, performance, sound, and video experimentation.