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ALI LECTURE SERIES | Ben Smith’s “With or Without Walls” Book Launch & Reception

College of Design · Rapson Hall, 89 Church Street Se Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Join us for a series of lectures hosted by the Schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design (ALI) during the 2026-27 academic year. Celebrate the launch of Professor Ben…

Department Lecture by Eva Prats (Flores & Prats): Emotional Heritage

ETH Zurich

Smart Lecture Series | “Broken Paintings for a Broken World: Bodies and the Future of Painting in Qing China”

Department of Art History · Cochrane-Woods Art Center 157

Classical Chinese theories of calligraphy and painting understood the individual brush-trace (ji) as the outward manifestation of the body, linking good writing or painting with good health. But was…

ALI LECTURE SERIES | Joyce Hwang, Ants of the Prairie

College of Design · Rapson Hall, 89 Church Street Se Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Join us for a series of lectures hosted by the Schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design (ALI) during the 2026-27 academic year.

Bunker Talk #174: Simon Moreton

Manchester Metropolitan University · The Salutation Pub, 12 Higher Chatham St, Manchester, M15 6ED

Discussion, The Salutation Pub

What is Jazz?

Gresham College · LSO St Luke's

Jazz is often considered “free” and “spontaneous”, and yet it takes a lifetime of dedication to achieve such freedom. What is really happening when musicians improvise?

Language and Reconciliation: The Mapping of Ireland and Brian Friel's Drama Translations

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Brian Friel’s Translations, first staged in 1980, is one of Ireland’s best-known plays. Its major theme is the language question, and the role of the 19th-century Ordnance Survey in the decline of…

Archives, Cultural Heritage and Film History in the Digital Age

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Doing film history is like being a detective in archives looking for clues and traces across films, photographs and documents. Archives also contain silences and absences, especially when looking…

Bunker Talk #175: Viv Gardner

Manchester Metropolitan University · SODA Cinema

Discussion, SODA Cinema

Shakespeare and the Shrinking Canon

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Samuel Pepys thought Romeo and Juliet ‘the worst [play] that ever I heard in my life’. Today it’s studied each year by thousands of students and holds the stage in playhouses across the world.

The Future of Music: New Branches on the Evolutionary Tree of Music

Gresham College · LSO St Luke's

Throughout its history, people have imagined the future of music—from the promises of electronic music to bold predictions about the fate of tonality and art itself. Some visions now seem quaint…