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Events

CAS programs public events around the projects in each of the initiatives. When the speaker or group permits, recordings of the events are uploaded to the . All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society: The Art of Hospitality

May 28–30, 2025

2025 “Meeting of the Minds” Award for Artistic Excellence

Congratulations to the following undergraduate student winners of the 2025 “Meeting of the Minds” Award for Artistic Excellence!

Bringing Coffee Farmers & Roasters Together

April 22, 2025

Spirit of Coffee Festival

April 23, 2025

Syrian Dinner & a Movie: "Nezouh" with Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan

April 10, 2025

Experience the transdisciplinary performance of Mobéy Lola Irizarry!

March 26, 2025

Egyptian Dinner & a Reading - Between home and accommodation: Parallel lives of Egyptian workers in Dubai with Dr. Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata

March 12, 2025

Afghan Dinner & a Reading: "Outspoken" with author Sima Samar

January 23, 2025

(In)Hospitable Bodies Speaker Series

November 22, 2024
Egyptian Dinner and a Reading: "Echoes of the Soul: Reflections on Love, Faith, Alienation, and Exile"

Egyptian Dinner and a Reading: "Echoes of the Soul: Reflections on Love, Faith, Alienation, and Exile"

November 21, 2024
Storytelling for Sustainability: Native Perspectives on Hospitality

Storytelling for Sustainability: Native Perspectives on Hospitality

November 13, 2024
Political Advertisement XI

Political Advertisement XI

November 1, 2024
Black Reconstruction, Jazz, and Brass Bands in New Orleans with Dr. Ben Barson

Black Reconstruction, Jazz, and Brass Bands in New Orleans with Dr. Ben Barson

October 31, 2024
Black Banjoists’ History and Music with Maya Brown-Boateng

Black Banjoists’ History and Music with Maya Brown-Boateng

October 24, 2024
2024 Scholars at Risk United States General Assembly

2024 Scholars at Risk United States General Assembly

October 16–17, 2024
Syrian Dessert & a Movie: "The Day I Lost My Shadow" with filmmaker Soudade Kaadan

Syrian Dessert & a Movie: "The Day I Lost My Shadow" with filmmaker Soudade Kaadan

October 16, 2024
Afghan Dinner & a Reading - Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to her Son

Afghan Dinner & a Reading - Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to her Son

October 3, 2024
Capoeira History, Music, and Movement with Akinlana Lowman

Capoeira History, Music, and Movement with Akinlana Lowman

October 1, 2024
Storytelling for Sustainability

Storytelling for Sustainability

September 30, 2024
Geisha Music and Dance with Dr. Yuko Eguchi

Geisha Music and Dance with Dr. Yuko Eguchi

September 19, 2024
Reviving the Hive: A Journey of Art, Activism, and Education with the Beehive Collective

Reviving the Hive: A Journey of Art, Activism, and Education with the Beehive Collective

September 7, 2024
2024 “Meeting of the Minds” Award for Artistic Excellence

2024 “Meeting of the Minds” Award for Artistic Excellence

May 2, 2024
Crafting Coffee: Conversation With Pittsburgh's Coffee Roasters

Crafting Coffee: Conversation With Pittsburgh's Coffee Roasters

April 18, 2024
Brooke Keesling: Making It (Animated)

Brooke Keesling: Making It (Animated)

April 8, 2024
20,000 Species of Bees

20,000 Species of Bees

April 7, 2024
Quechua in Resistance: An Evening of Peruvian Hip-hop with Rapper Liberato Kani

Quechua in Resistance: An Evening of Peruvian Hip-hop with Rapper Liberato Kani

April 4, 2024
JooYoung Choi: The Cosmic Womb

JooYoung Choi: The Cosmic Womb

March 27, 2024
"Footsteps of a Stranger" Art Unveiling

"Footsteps of a Stranger" Art Unveiling

March 15, 2024
Talks and Screening of "Elysium"

Talks and Screening of "Elysium"

March 14, 2024
Rebecca Ruige Xu: Crafting Emotional Landscapes through Generative Abstract Animation

Rebecca Ruige Xu: Crafting Emotional Landscapes through Generative Abstract Animation

March 13, 2024
Syrian Dinner & a Movie: Sugar Cage with filmmaker Zeina Al Qahwaji

Syrian Dinner & a Movie: Sugar Cage with filmmaker Zeina Al Qahwaji

February 28, 2024
Body Doubles Symposium

Body Doubles Symposium

February 22-24, 2024
Laura Harrison - "The Limits of Vision"

Laura Harrison - "The Limits of Vision"

February 19, 2024
Virtual Structures of Sabotage

Virtual Structures of Sabotage

February 16, 2024
Afghan Dinner & a Movie

Afghan Dinner & a Movie

January 31, 2024
Shakespeare’s First Folio and Second Chance

Shakespeare’s First Folio and Second Chance

November 30, 2023
Indigenous and Métis Futurisms

Indigenous and Métis Futurisms

November 15, 2023
Dinner & a Reading with Algerian Novelist Anouar Rahmani

Dinner & a Reading with Algerian Novelist Anouar Rahmani

November 15, 2023
Sujin Kim - Artist’s Talk

Sujin Kim - Artist’s Talk

November 13, 2023
Film Night: "Denying Access" - with Seneca filmmaker Jason Corwin

Film Night: "Denying Access" - with Seneca filmmaker Jason Corwin

November 8, 2023
Syrian Dinner & a Movie : “Chaos”

Syrian Dinner & a Movie : “Chaos”

October 25, 2023
"Telephone" Screening

"Telephone" Screening

October 24, 2023
The Art of Touch: Lending a Hand to the Sighted Majority

The Art of Touch: Lending a Hand to the Sighted Majority

October 23, 2023
Flute Traditions

Flute Traditions

October 4, 2023
(Our) Life on Mars?

(Our) Life on Mars?

October 4, 2023
A Screening of "The Martian"

A Screening of "The Martian"

September 29, 2023
A Powwow Demonstration

A Powwow Demonstration

September 20, 2023
Doraemon Matters: How the Manga Robot Cat from the Future Lives on in Japan Today

Doraemon Matters: How the Manga Robot Cat from the Future Lives on in Japan Today

September 19, 2023
Transcultural Memory and the 'Disappeared' as a Multidirectional Category in Nacha Vollenweider's Notas al pie

Transcultural Memory and the 'Disappeared' as a Multidirectional Category in Nacha Vollenweider's Notas al pie

September 19, 2023
Dinner and a Movie: Hava, Maryam, Ayesha

Dinner and a Movie: Hava, Maryam, Ayesha

September 14, 2023
Seneca and Haudenosaunee Music & Dance with Alan Dowdy

Seneca and Haudenosaunee Music & Dance with Alan Dowdy

September 6, 2023
CONTAINMENT, CARE + COMMUNITY Exhibition

CONTAINMENT, CARE + COMMUNITY Exhibition

September 5-10, 2023
2023 Award for Artistic Excellence

2023 Award for Artistic Excellence

May 3, 2023
Sound Holograms

Sound Holograms

April 27, 2023
100 Years of Colombian Comics

100 Years of Colombian Comics

April 12 & 13, 2023
Architecture’s Ecological Restructuring

Architecture’s Ecological Restructuring

March 25, 2023
Adam Harvey - "Becoming Data: Privacy, Surveillance, and Datification of Everything"

Adam Harvey - "Becoming Data: Privacy, Surveillance, and Datification of Everything"

March 21, 2023
Afghan Filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat

Afghan Filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat

March 17-22, 2023
What We Left Unfinished

What We Left Unfinished

February 16, 2023
How Does It Feel To Be a Problem

How Does It Feel To Be a Problem

January 18, 2023
Pseudo-Science on the Stage: A Conversation Behind the Scenes of "Animal Magnetism", a Play by Elizabeth Inchbald

Pseudo-Science on the Stage: A Conversation Behind the Scenes of "Animal Magnetism", a Play by Elizabeth Inchbald

December 15, 2022
Trenton Doyle Hancock Artist Talk

Trenton Doyle Hancock Artist Talk

November 15, 2022
Syrian Dinner and a Movie: Becoming Iphigenia by filmmaker Reem Al-Ghazzi

Syrian Dinner and a Movie: Becoming Iphigenia by filmmaker Reem Al-Ghazzi

November 14, 2022
Public Health, Private Spaces

Public Health, Private Spaces

October 28, 2022
Afghan Dinner and a Movie Night: Three Songs for Benazir

Afghan Dinner and a Movie Night: Three Songs for Benazir

October 12, 2022
"Public Health, Private Spaces" Call for Student Contributions

"Public Health, Private Spaces" Call for Student Contributions

Expressions of interest due October 3, 2022
Yves

Yves

September 8, 2022
Matthew Gandy

Matthew Gandy

April 29, 2022
Mizuko Ito

Mizuko Ito

April 11, 2022
Sara Jensen Carr

Sara Jensen Carr

March 25, 2022
Kyra Gaunt

Kyra Gaunt

March 18, 2022
Convent of Pleasure

Convent of Pleasure

March 14, 2022
Jules Gill-Peterson

Jules Gill-Peterson

March 2, 2022
Cas Holman

Cas Holman

February 23, 2022
Khūrākī: A Celebration of Afghanistan in Pittsburgh

Khūrākī: A Celebration of Afghanistan in Pittsburgh

February 15 & 17, 2022
Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange

January 26, 2022
Anne Bogart: Towards a Theater 2.0

Anne Bogart: Towards a Theater 2.0

January 19, 2022
A Feminist Utopia of the Senses?

A Feminist Utopia of the Senses?

December 8, 2021
The How Well? Project

The How Well? Project
Deus Ex Machina: The CAS Narrative Initiative

Deus Ex Machina: The CAS Narrative Initiative

October 26, 2021
Racial Capitalism and Care in COVID

Racial Capitalism and Care in COVID

Thursday, April 22, 2021
Resound/Revision Festival: Indigenous Pittsburgh and Otherwise Worlds

Resound/Revision Festival: Indigenous Pittsburgh and Otherwise Worlds

Friday, April 9 through Sunday, April 11, 2021
We Can't be Illegal if We're Essential: The Reckoning Wrought by Covid-19

We Can't be Illegal if We're Essential: The Reckoning Wrought by Covid-19

Thursday, April 8, 2021
Infrastructuring Thermal Governance: Air-conditioning, Climate Change, and Care in Urban Asia

Infrastructuring Thermal Governance: Air-conditioning, Climate Change, and Care in Urban Asia

Thursday, March 25, 2021
Deadly preventions: Containing the inequities of public health measures

Deadly preventions: Containing the inequities of public health measures

Thursday, March 18, 2021
Cities in the time of Covid-19: Reflecting on the nature of crisis and everyday risk in the South Asian City

Cities in the time of Covid-19: Reflecting on the nature of crisis and everyday risk in the South Asian City

Monday, March 8, 2021
“Afro-Cuban Women: between Democracy and Revolution (1902-1952)” with Manuel Ramírez Chicharro

“Afro-Cuban Women: between Democracy and Revolution (1902-1952)” with Manuel Ramírez Chicharro

Monday, March 1, 2021
Indigenous Sovereignty + Black Liberation

Indigenous Sovereignty + Black Liberation

Thursday, Feb 25, 2021
Sardinia and the Ecology of Malaria Control

Sardinia and the Ecology of Malaria Control

Thursday, February 18, 2021
No Separate Survival: The COVID-19 Crisis at the Border and Arts in Action

No Separate Survival: The COVID-19 Crisis at the Border and Arts in Action

Thursday, November 12, 2020
Experiences of Hunger and Food Insecurity in College

Experiences of Hunger and Food Insecurity in College

Monday, November 9, 2020
Indigenous Pittsburgh Music Series

Indigenous Pittsburgh Music Series

November 2020
Vibrant Storytelling, or, How to Connect in a Pandemic

Vibrant Storytelling, or, How to Connect in a Pandemic

Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Black Lives Matter at 바카라 온라인 추천

Black Lives Matter at 바카라 온라인 추천

Tuesday, June 16, 2020
When The World is Sick

When The World is Sick

Friday, May 22, 2020
Skibba - Stitches in Time and Reality

Skibba - Stitches in Time and Reality

Friday, May 15, 2020
Alyssa Cypher - Co-opt

Alyssa Cypher - Co-opt

Friday, May 15, 2020
Erica Nickol - Stitching in Solitude - Art in a Time of Social Distancing

Erica Nickol - Stitching in Solitude - Art in a Time of Social Distancing

Friday, May 15, 2020
Sean Carroll - How to Take a Walk In the Era of Social Distancing - A Step-by-Step Guide

Sean Carroll - How to Take a Walk In the Era of Social Distancing - A Step-by-Step Guide

Friday, May 15, 2020
Blacktop Sky by Christina Anderson

Blacktop Sky by Christina Anderson

Friday, May 8, 2020
Nigga, Digress & Death Dream by Ty Greenwood

Nigga, Digress & Death Dream by Ty Greenwood

Friday, May 8, 2020
The Silence When Black Women Die by Chris Ivey

The Silence When Black Women Die by Chris Ivey

Friday, May 8, 2020
Housed Within Marrow

Housed Within Marrow

Friday, May 1, 2020
Avery Alder - Good Bones

Avery Alder - Good Bones

Friday, May 1, 2020
Good Bones Meditation Soundtrack by Boo Lean

Good Bones Meditation Soundtrack by Boo Lean

Friday, May 1, 2020
Stay Safe by Black Meherrin artist Morgan Overton

Stay Safe by Black Meherrin artist Morgan Overton

Friday, April 24, 2020
Chelsea Vowel - A Lodge Within Her Mind

Chelsea Vowel - A Lodge Within Her Mind

Friday, April 24, 2020
Alexa Woloshyn - Curators Statement

Alexa Woloshyn - Curators Statement

Friday, April 24, 2020
KIDS by Playables

KIDS by Playables

Friday, April 17, 2020
Joshua Mosley - Jeu de Paume

Joshua Mosley - Jeu de Paume

Friday, April 17, 2020
Alba Triana - Music on a Bound String series 2015-2020

Alba Triana - Music on a Bound String series 2015-2020

Friday, April 10, 2020
Carolina Sanin - The Children

Carolina Sanin - The Children

Friday, April 10, 2020
Felipe Gomez - Literature and Art in the Narrative of Apocalypse

Felipe Gomez - Literature and Art in the Narrative of Apocalypse

Friday, April 10, 2020
O'Ryan the O'Mazing Arrowroot - Quarantine the Clown

O'Ryan the O'Mazing Arrowroot - Quarantine the Clown

Friday, April 3, 2020
Cooper Verona - Feel My Love

Cooper Verona - Feel My Love

Friday, April 3, 2020
Performers Responding to Social Isolation Without a Stage or Audience

Performers Responding to Social Isolation Without a Stage or Audience

Friday, April 3, 2020
Coronavirus: Its Geopolitical and Societal Effects in Europe

Coronavirus: Its Geopolitical and Societal Effects in Europe

Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Paul Gravett - Change and the World of Comics

Paul Gravett - Change and the World of Comics

Thursday, March 26, 2020
Jonathan Monaghan - Out of the Abyss

Jonathan Monaghan - Out of the Abyss

Monday, March 23, 2020
Larimer Seniors: Community Engaged Art Making between Larimer Senior Citizens and Artist John Peña

Larimer Seniors: Community Engaged Art Making between Larimer Senior Citizens and Artist John Peña

Monday, February 24
A Talk & Listening Session with Ian Nagoski

A Talk & Listening Session with Ian Nagoski

Friday, February 14
Sam Green “Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig”

Sam Green “Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig”

Friday, February 21
Artist Talk and Workshop: Morgan Overton

Artist Talk and Workshop: Morgan Overton

Wednesday, November 20
Community Film Night: Reel Injun

Community Film Night: Reel Injun

Wednesday, November 6
Byron Kim & Carl Phillips in Conversation

Byron Kim & Carl Phillips in Conversation

Thursday, October 31
Liz Magic Laser: Time Pressure

Liz Magic Laser: Time Pressure

Monday, October 21
Powwow 101

Powwow 101

Sunday September 29
The Same Separate?

The Same Separate?

Tuesday, October 29
Settler Colonialism in the United States

Settler Colonialism in the United States

Saturday, Sept 7
Comics and Social Justice

Comics and Social Justice

Monday, March 18
Sharing Our Stories

Sharing Our Stories

Saturday, March 2
La Borinqueña: Decolonizing Puerto Rico via Comic Books

La Borinqueña: Decolonizing Puerto Rico via Comic Books

Wednesday, April 3
Feeding the Future

Feeding the Future

Monday, February 11
In the Tradition of Black Radical Gestures

In the Tradition of Black Radical Gestures

Monday, February 4
Public Lecture: What is a Chickasaw Classical Composer?

Public Lecture: What is a Chickasaw Classical Composer?

Friday, November 16
Mighty Morphing Artistry & Multivalent Art Spaces

Mighty Morphing Artistry & Multivalent Art Spaces

Tuesday, November 13
Amy Lockhart In Conversation

Amy Lockhart In Conversation

Wednesday, October 24
Counter Cartographies

Counter Cartographies

Monday, October 15
The Treasure Beneath Falling Statues

The Treasure Beneath Falling Statues

Monday, September 24
Infinite Death Labyrinths

Infinite Death Labyrinths

Thursday, September 20
TQ Live! 2018 @ The Andy Warhol Museum

TQ Live! 2018 @ The Andy Warhol Museum

Friday, September 14
Beyond What You See: Exploring the Medium of Play

Beyond What You See: Exploring the Medium of Play

Thursday, September 13
From Houdini to Snowden

From Houdini to Snowden

Monday, April 16
Meme-ish: Art, Evolution, and Un-exceptionalism

Meme-ish: Art, Evolution, and Un-exceptionalism

Wednesday, April 11
NUTS! by Penny Lane

NUTS! by Penny Lane

Monday, April 9
Alive You Took Them

Alive You Took Them

Monday, April 2
Playright Pearse Elliott

Playright Pearse Elliott

Monday & Wednesday, March 26 & 28
Blackness, Citizenship, and the Arts

Blackness, Citizenship, and the Arts

Thursday & Friday, March 22-23
Faith Wilding: Fearful Symmetries

Faith Wilding: Fearful Symmetries

Friday, February 16
A Conversation with Suzy Delvalle

A Conversation with Suzy Delvalle

Thursday, February 15
Circular Laments

Circular Laments

Chris Doyle is an interdisciplinary artist who works in Animation, Projection and other art forms.
Celebrating the Arts in Society

Celebrating the Arts in Society

From the role of public art to the evolution of media to how people use performance through social rituals, athletics and digital devices, 온라인바카라’s Center for the Arts in Society (CAS) has been re-framing the view of day-to-day life since 2008.
Art Under Attack

Art Under Attack

The history of the world is under attack. Instability and conflict in Syria, Egypt, and other countries rich with the remains of our shared past have led to a recent huge rise in the looting and destruction of archeological sites. The damage done is incalculable.
Daughters of the Dust

Daughters of the Dust

"Requiem for Rice" presents a tasting of authentic Gullah Geechee cuisine from the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands and a special screening of award-winning filmmaker Julie Dash's classic, "Daughters of the Dust."
To Conduct Strange Exercises on Barely Comparable Things

To Conduct Strange Exercises on Barely Comparable Things

What is at stake in the notion of interdisciplinarity? Does it seek a shared enterprise between fields of knowledge or methods of inquiry? Does it depend on a mastery of multiple disciplines? Or does it seek the limits of a discipline or its points of crisis? And who has the right or authority to approach these borders and fault lines of thought?
Dark Matter

Dark Matter

DarkMatter, is a trans South Asian performance art duo comprised of Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian.
Performing Peace in the North of Ireland

Performing Peace in the North of Ireland

Performing Peace in the North of Ireland is a Center for Arts in Society funded project by John Carson and Jennifer Keating exploring the roles, which individual citizens and artists undertake in navigating public and private spheres of a society in transition from conflict to peace.
Detroit and Race

Detroit and Race

Rebecca J. Kinney will address themes from her new book, Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America's Postindustrial Frontier.
Drama Queens!

Drama Queens!

An Evening of Short Performances by Six World-Renowned Performance Artists followed by a panel discussion with the artists.
Pittonkatonk

Pittonkatonk

Now in its third year, Pittonkatonk is a free, outdoor, family friendly community celebration of brass music that features both local and touring musicians.
Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi

Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi

The Colour of Music (Black Classical Musicians) Festival in association with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is pleased to present the Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi in performance in Pittsburgh.
Filmmaker Julie Dash Events

Filmmaker Julie Dash Events

Director of "Daughters of Dust," 1991 winner of Sundance Film Festival Cinematography Award and Grand Jury Prize nominee, Julie Dash is a filmmaker, music video and commercial director, and author.
Facing Avatars

Facing Avatars

Semi Ryu is a media artist who specializes in experimental 3D animations and virtual puppetry, based on Korean shamanism and traditional oral storytelling.
No More

No More

Mairéad McClean's work disrupts and restructures events from the past highlighting the unreliability of histories which, once written, are not so easily altered. Through the use of sound, still and moving image, material evidence is re-opened and re-examined and a new vantage point created.
Critical Play

Critical Play

From Bauhaus to today's efforts in sustainability, designers have long sought to improve society--and even create utopias- in their work. As both an artist and a designer, Flanagan has created social disruptions, artwork, and games to trigger relational conversations.
Performing Place, Performing Peace

Performing Place, Performing Peace

Since the Belfast Agreement of 1998, Northern Ireland has been undergoing a transformation into an uneasy and unfolding peace. A significant aspect of the transformation of the violent conflict that had been underway for some thirty years previously has been the ways in which space has been renegotiated and the ways in which space remains an area of contention.
Daggers of the Mind

Daggers of the Mind

Theater comes from the Greek word for "the seeing place." So why do invisible phenomena fascinate both playwrights and audiences? In this talk, scholar-director Andrew Sofer explores the uncanny power of the unseen in drama, theater, and performance, taking invisible presences in Shakespeare's plays as a prime example.
Close Encounters (of the Theatrical Kind)

Close Encounters (of the Theatrical Kind)

Bricolage Production Company, nationally recognized as innovators in the growing Immersive Theatre landscape, specializes in creating intimate theatrical adventures that provide a heightened sense of involvement for the audience.
An Evening with Bob Moses

An Evening with Bob Moses

A central figure in SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Moses spent years fighting racial inequality in Mississippi.
Digitizing the Ephemeral

Digitizing the Ephemeral

Dr. Barchas is the creator of the digital gallery What Jane Saw, a room-by-room reconstruction of an exhibition of paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds that novelist Jane Austen attended on 24 May 1813.
A Dialogue in Charleston & A Watch Party in Pittsburgh

A Dialogue in Charleston & A Watch Party in Pittsburgh

Rice in Gullah Geechee Culture and History
A Dialogue with Charleston Artists

A Dialogue with Charleston Artists

Honoring the Charleston 9: Why We Need a 'Requiem' for African and African-American History
Locating Social Class

Locating Social Class

This conference will look into how class ideologies can be (or have been) projected into physical spaces, and how mythologies local to a specific time and place come to bear on the lived experiences of working class people.
Pittonkatonk Hosts May Day Brass BBQ and Festival

Pittonkatonk Hosts May Day Brass BBQ and Festival

This lecture explores dilemmas of expertise and authority in contemporary news mediation via an ethnographic study of what is, according to some, Germany's largest news provider: T-Online.
In-Between Space

In-Between Space

John Cleater is a founding member of internationally acclaimed Performance Group, The Builders Association, creating designs for many of their cross media productions.
Dangerous Acts

Dangerous Acts

Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theatre company, raised their voice on taboo subjects and honesties in Minsk to secret audiences until the rigged voting fraud of the 2010 presidential elections branded them as threats to the dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko. Using smuggled and uncensored footage of Belarus protests.
Robot Ethics

Robot Ethics

Robotics is advancing rapidly through categories of human capability, and pundits on all sides are debating the robot futures we may face: existential threat (Elon Musk, Bill Gates), or bringer of the Age of Plenty (Hans Moravec, Kurzweil) or robber of human jobs (McAfee, Summers) or transition to a new work style (Larry Page)?
Neither Here Nor There

Neither Here Nor There

The work has evolved out of a Belfast context heavily inscribed by the visual components of social, political and national affiliations where meaning is not neutral. Northernness is a recurring theme. Not just the physical and psychological reality of the North of Ireland, but the very sense of "Northernness" both as an interior wilderness and a place at the edge of imagination.
Click and Spin

Click and Spin

This lecture explores dilemmas of expertise and authority in contemporary news mediation via an ethnographic study of what is, according to some, Germany's largest news provider: T-Online.
Making Art in a Hostile Environment

Making Art in a Hostile Environment

When social order broke down in Northern Ireland in 1969 it was very frightening. My brothers and I were brought up to be naïve about sectarian divisions. We didn't know that it had all happened before and would again.
The Stuart Hall Project

The Stuart Hall Project

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the death of Cultural Studies founder Stuart Hall, please help us celebrate his life and legacy with the Pittsburgh premiere of the award winning biographical film, The Stuart Hall Project.
Things Left Unsaid

Things Left Unsaid

This event has been canceled, we will try to reschedule at a later date.
For This, Be All Thy Sins Forgiven!

For This, Be All Thy Sins Forgiven!

Prostituted by her husband and disgraced by a public (and graphically illustrated) trial for adultery, Susannah Cibber refused either to fade away or to be reduced to the 'actress as whore' trope.
Twice Performing Objects

Twice Performing Objects

Michael Jones McKean explores through sculpture the possibilities of de-anthropomorphism, a universe where human thought is not a correlate to reality - a place where objects, substances and things live equal to humans.
Making Money

Making Money

Finn Brunton is a scholar of the relationships between society, culture and information technology.
Translations Filmscreening

Translations Filmscreening

Maurice Fitzpatrick is the writer & director of a new documentary for the BBC on the story behind Translations by Tony Award winning playwright Brian Friel.
Changing Channels Reception

Changing Channels Reception

Featured: Listening Spaces, SocialChange101, and Trans-Q Television. Exhibition: Aug. 29 - Sept. 14, 2014, Opening Reception and tour with artists: Sept. 3, 2014 4:30-6:30pm.
May Day

May Day

Issues of being a working musician, how music has been used in labor movements, the roles race and economy play in how musical communities survive, the past and present traditions of making music DIY practices, the Internets relationship with musicians, and more!
Lucky After Dark

Lucky After Dark

Invisibility still dominates the discussion of GLBT community formation in the 20th-century. Assumptions that "gay life" evolved in San Francisco, New York, or LA while smaller cities lagged behind or remained off-the-grid are rebuked by the example of Pittsburgh.
Anonymous

Anonymous

Since 2010, digital direct action, including leaks, hacking and mass protest, has become a regular feature of political life on the Internet. This lecture considers the source, strengths and weakness of this activity through an in-depth analysis of Anonymous.
Divas, Darlings, and Dames

Divas, Darlings, and Dames

The image of the Single Girl—sassy, sexual, and employed—was a staple of 1960s popular culture. Broadway musicals, including Oliver!, Man of La Mancha, Mame, Hello, Dolly!, Cabaret, and Sweet Charity, presented singing and dancing versions of this figure.
Allá in the Mix

Allá in the Mix

This talk will join conversations taking place in the Center for the Arts in Society’s “Listening Spaces” project by exploring contemporary musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos.
Trans-Q Television!

Trans-Q Television!

Suzie Silver (creator/producer) and Scott Andrew (producer) present a frisky account of TQTV and screen highlights from upcoming episodes.
Parades, Flags, Carnivals and Riots

Parades, Flags, Carnivals and Riots

This paper explores one of the defining aspects of politics and identity in Northern Ireland: the control and utilization of public space, particularly urban public space.
Environmental Reading with Perfume, Soundtrack, Tweet Mirror, and the Joy of Cooking

Environmental Reading with Perfume, Soundtrack, Tweet Mirror, and the Joy of Cooking

Tan Lin will present his PowerPoint videos—Bibliographic Sound Track and The Ph.D Sound—that explore communications platforms such as Twitter, SMS, status updates, IM chats, programming languages, video-game walk-throughs, and more.
‘Inequality for All’

‘Inequality for All’

“Inequality for All” is a mix of facts, infographics, documentary footage, and profiles of families whose lives have been scarred by the new economy with the personal story of Berkeley Professor Robert Reich’s lifelong work to push for a just economy.
The Internet and the Death of Jazz

The Internet and the Death of Jazz

Is jazz Black music or the music of white conservatories? Is it commercial music or avant-garde? Is New York really the only place to be, or is jazz indeed everywhere? In the wake of record labels, who will/should fund our projects—granting agencies, Kickstarter, venues?
Special Effect

Special Effect

Video artist Peter Burr presents Special Effect, a live television show inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky's 1971 film Stalker. The performance features screenings of 18 short animations and live performances by Burr involving laser beams, green screens, and a webcam.
Feminist Performance

Feminist Performance

Since 1999, Guatemalan performance artist Regina José Galindo has used her body to register what Judith Butler calls “the geopolitical distribution of corporeal vulnerability,” calling attention to the femicides that have accompanied the feminization of labor globally.
Adjudicating Bodies Public in NEA v. Finley

Adjudicating Bodies Public in NEA v. Finley

In a new book on “The Wild” Jack Halberstam turns to anarchist thought to elaborate a queer politics for this particular moment of crisis and renewal.
No Church in the Wild

No Church in the Wild

In a new book on “The Wild” Jack Halberstam turns to anarchist thought to elaborate a queer politics for this particular moment of crisis and renewal.
Masters of Doom

Masters of Doom
Rocking the Body Politics

Rocking the Body Politics
The Widow's Joy

The Widow's Joy
Why do Artists Create Urban Development?

Why do Artists Create Urban Development?
Media & Revolution in the Arab Spring

Media & Revolution in the Arab Spring
History, Memory, Truth

History, Memory, Truth
The Politics of Visuality and the Erasure of the Iraq War

The Politics of Visuality and the Erasure of the Iraq War
A Celebration of the Humanities

A Celebration of the Humanities
Book Release Celebration

Book Release Celebration
Media, Technology, and Service Learning

Media, Technology, and Service Learning
Films of Lillian Schwartz

Films of Lillian Schwartz
The Afro-Cuban Movement: 1912/2012

The Afro-Cuban Movement: 1912/2012
Non-Relational Aesthetics

Non-Relational Aesthetics
Listening Spaces

Listening Spaces
A Perfect X

A Perfect X
Through the Lens of Freedom

Through the Lens of Freedom
Earth Matters on Stage

Earth Matters on Stage
Conflict Kitchen

Conflict Kitchen
Director John Sayles

Director John Sayles
Human Rights and the ‘Drug War’ in Mexico

Human Rights and the ‘Drug War’ in Mexico
A Dance to the Music of Bernard Herrmann

A Dance to the Music of Bernard Herrmann
Animation Symposium

Animation Symposium
El Sicario

El Sicario
Signs of Violence

Signs of Violence
Fiction / Nonfiction

Fiction / Nonfiction
Typescript Books

Typescript Books
New Media/News Media

New Media/News Media
Out of Rubble

Out of Rubble
Maya Apocalypse

Maya Apocalypse
"Shale Play: Our Brains on Frack"

"Shale Play: Our Brains on Frack"
Political Expressionism

Political Expressionism
The Boys of St. Columb's

The Boys of St. Columb's
Sites of Passage

Sites of Passage
“I’m an African”

“I’m an African”
Pirates of the Caribbean

Pirates of the Caribbean
Saviana Stanescu

Saviana Stanescu
Fire in My Belly

Fire in My Belly
Staging Water Rites

Staging Water Rites
Now That Everyone is a Curator, Curators are Writing Algorithms

Now That Everyone is a Curator, Curators are Writing Algorithms
Northless

Northless
Video, Migration, and Heterotemporality

Video, Migration, and Heterotemporality
From Alienation to Revolution

From Alienation to Revolution
Color Coding

Color Coding
Radical Cartooning in the Labor Movement as History

Radical Cartooning in the Labor Movement as History
The .txtual Condition

The .txtual Condition
Multiple Journeys

Multiple Journeys
How Now Affects How

How Now Affects How
"Pintando Para un Sueño"

"Pintando Para un Sueño"
Aesthetics for Aliens

Aesthetics for Aliens
Connecting with Indigenous Communities through Indigenous Art Collections

Connecting with Indigenous Communities through Indigenous Art Collections
Regime (of Language) Change

Regime (of Language) Change
Remembering Networks

Remembering Networks
What Happens When Art Provokes American Society - and Why

What Happens When Art Provokes American Society - and Why

The lecture will discuss controversial issues raised by ‘modern art,’ public art, government-funded art, sexually provocative art, and the changing role of museums in American society.
StrataSpore

StrataSpore

StrataSpore is a platform for collective learning about mushrooms. StrataSpore will facilitate a workshop intensive that will frame one narrative of our lived collaborative experience: foraging, cooking/eating and performing.
Public Art as Social Space

Public Art as Social Space

Jon Rubin will be presenting a series of his public projects that take the form of quasi-institutions that catalyze new forms of social participation. His solo and collaborative projects include creating a game show for ideas, opening a fake store in an indoor shopping mall, starting a restaurant that secretly runs via take-out from its double across the street, and much more.
The Dreadful Wreckage of History Studying Rubble Photography

The Dreadful Wreckage of History Studying Rubble Photography

In 1949, the year in which both German states were founded, Richard Peter, a Dresden photographer, published Eine Kamera klagt an with a print-run of 50,000 copies which quickly sold out. The book is an example of Trümmerfotografie, rubble or wreckage photography that documented the destruction of the German cities in the immediate postwar years.
New Media

New Media

The advent of digitally-mediated and networked technologies allowing user representation has led to the emergence of a variety of forms of communication. From social networking sites, to interactive simulations and games, these “new media” have done more than question traditional understandings of the private and public domains and of the boundaries between truth and fabrication.
The Wondrous World of Laundry

The Wondrous World of Laundry

This film is part of Faces of Globalization, the 2010 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival, sponsored by the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon.
Controversy, Art, and Power

Controversy, Art, and Power

Cultural sociologist Richard Howells will argue that controversies in the arts are rarely only about the arts. They do not happen within an aesthetic vacuum. While he agrees that some controversies are deliberately created for publicity and commercial reasons, Howells stresses the greater importance of the power dynamic in both the making and the understanding of controversy. Case studies range from punk rock to theatre and the fine arts.
The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan

A double bill of staged readings of two plays from the frontlines of climate change
No Cartoon Left Behind

No Cartoon Left Behind

Rob Rogers will sign copies of his book, No Cartoon Left Behind: The Best of Rob Rogers immediately following the talk. Books will be on sale outside of Gregg Hall.
Pieces from the Past

Pieces from the Past

This talk will focus on the current state of fascist monuments in Spain in relation to the Historical Memory Law, passed in 2007. This law calls for the removal of all shields, insignias, plaques, and commemorative elements of the Franco era from public spaces.
Hijacking Controversy

Hijacking Controversy

Can artists influence the way in which the media presents their work, especially when such work comes in response to controversial events?
The Pittsburgh Eco-Drama Festival

The Pittsburgh Eco-Drama Festival

Staged readings of four new award-winning plays about the environment and ecology.
G-20 Summit Events

G-20 Summit Events

Power, Protest, Performance, a Panel Discussion on Street Theater and Protest
Greening the Future of Live Performance

Greening the Future of Live Performance

What are the ecological issues ripe for exploration in live performance? What changes in approach, perspective, and form might be needed to create performances that situation nature and the non-human world as an equal player in the unfolding eco-drama, rather than as a landscape or backdrop to human crisis?
The Eleventh Plenum and Film Controversy in East Germany

The Eleventh Plenum and Film Controversy in East Germany

In 1965 the German Democratic Republic experienced one of its most important and far-reaching cultural controversies when the Socialist Unity Party (East Germany’s ruling party) came together to discuss economic and cultural issues.
Voices of Democracy

Voices of Democracy

n the United States, government-supported public art is traditionally assumed to be an act of citizenship, that is, supportive of values associated with democracy. However, many pieces of public art that trumpet democratic values also serve autocratic forces.
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