materia’s second event of the 2020-2021 academic term took place on November 5, 2020 via Zoom. Centered on Impolitical Critiques & Decolonial Grammars, the event featured talks by professors Timothy Campbell (Romance Languages, Cornell) and María del Rosario Acosta (Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside).
materia kicked off its sixth year themed "Life & Transmission" on October 1, 2020 with a discussion on Money & War led by PhD Candidates Colin Drumm (History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz) and Harleen Kaur Bagga (Art History, Stanford).
Building on our meetings from previous years, the main theme for the this academic year will be “Life & Transmission.” We have an exciting (virtual!) line-up of discussion sessions and guest speakers joining us this year. FALL Oct 1: Money & War: discussion led by Colin Drum (UC Santa Cruz) & Harleen Kaur Bagga (Stanford) Nov 5: Impolitical...
Building on our meetings from previous years, the main theme for the new academic year will be “Information & Form” We have an exciting line-up of reading sessions and guest speakers joining us this year. FALL Oct 7: Reading Session Nov 4: Borders & Technology double-lecture with Tom McEnaney (UC Berkeley) And Micah Donohue (ENMU) WINTER Jan 27: Secrecy &...
"Materia has been a key academic discussion setting to help me think through my investigative interests and methodological frameworks. Its interdisciplinary character has provided me with an enriching exposal to a variety of possibilities of approaching theories of material phenomena and corporeal life, and to think of literature, feminism and cultural theory in a...
2018-2019 Calendar Building on our meetings from previous years, the main theme for the new academic year will be “Re-assemblage.” We have an exciting line-up of reading sessions and guest speakers joining us this year. FALL Oct 4: Andrés Burbano, U.de los Andes & Orit Halpern, Concordia University Oct 29: Reading Discussion Nov 29: Bonnie Honig, Brown University WINTER Jan 24: Reading...
Since Fall Quarter 2014, materia has hold twelve workshops and a conference to date. The former averaged twenty-five participants; the latter had over seventy. During the first year, the group discussed--and coined-- the notion of “post-anthropocentric” as an umbrella term that sets in conversation a host of otherwise divisive trends. This is in itself...
Power and the Non-Human The main theme of the third year was “Power and the Non-Human.” We took our cues, among other sources, from the rich discussion of the New York city blackout of 1977 in Jane Bennett, the quasi-novelization of the Cuban history of tobacco and sugar in Fernando Ortiz, and the multifarious elucidations...
POSTED IN: OF INTEREST ARHIST 273 / FILMSTUD 273: "Visual Culture of the Arctic and Climate Change" Spring Quarter 2015-16, Tue/Thurs 10:30am-11:50am Instructor: Lisa Bloom In what ways does contemporary art address the slowly unfolding catastrophes of melting ice and thawing permafrost in the Arctic due to climate change? How might contemporary art and experimental cinema help us...
POSTED IN:LECTURE How did the American family become a machine? Starting in the 1950s a community of progressive mental health therapists, ethnographers, and artists around the Bay Area put forth visions of the modern American family as a cybernetic machine. Researchers including anthropologist Gregory Bateson, filmmaker Weldon Kees, and psychiatrist Don Jackson proposed that family...
