15 May 2023 19 30 Lecture Hans-Christian Dany Model MA-1: The Bomber Jacket as a Shifting Object of Projection The bomber jacket MA-1 was originally designed as military apparel by the United States Air Force and later became part of the ’New Look’, a military strategy that the US Army developed in the age of militarism and in the shadow of a possible atomic conflict during the cold war. 23 May 2023 20 00 Lecture Selamawit D. Terrefe Race, Power, and the Psyche: Violence at the Corridors of Psychoanalysis Black death remains a lateral exigency in its most capricious and predictable disclosures: policing and punishment. Neither loss of the mythical subject nor the seemingly prosaic matrix of race and power account for the mundanity of antiblack violence. 30 May 2023 19 30 Lecture Mary S. Morgan Model Narratives The models of scientists - to be found in their diagrams, equations, maps, and even machines - can be understood as their representations of phenomena in the world. But when we look back into how scientists created those models, we often find processes of narrative-making. 12 Jun 2023 15 00 Symposium Translation, Mediation, Power 19 Jun 2023 19 30 Lecture Xiaowei Wang Rendering Intelligence: Biomedical Datasets and the Impossible Image The impossible image describes the botanical illustrations crucial to building the British Empire, and the ways botanical drawings emerged as a moral model. Wang will draw the connections between the impossible image of botanical illustrations and the traces of the impossible image in current understandings of generative AI. 3 Jul 2023 19 30 Lecture Thomas Harrison From Material to Symbol, to Model: The Bridge This lecture will present the bridge as a structure of interconnectivity by which one passes from one form or familiarity to another. The bridge is a model of communication. By locking two into the space of one, it enables thought and the experience of the social.
