SVA Honors Program

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Samir Gandesha: Prophets of Deceit Today

November 18, 2024 6:30 PM

Political theorist Samir Gandesha reflects on the contemporary relevance of Leo Lowenthals and Norbert Gutermans landmark text of Critical Theory analyzing the roots of susceptibility to fascist propaganda, Prophets of Deceit.

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Cinema & Politics: Machuca at 20 with Roberto Brodsky

December 02, 2024 6:30 PM

In honor of its 20th anniversary, a screening of the internationally acclaimed fiction film Machuca (2004) that takes place in a boarding school during the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allendes presidency and the uprising of fascism and Pinochets regime in Chile, followed by a Q&A with Chilean writer and one of Machucas screenwriters, Roberto Brodsky.

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Wafa Ghnaim, Tatreez Resistance: The Traditional Art of Palestinian Embroidery in the Diaspora

January 22, 2025 6:30 PM

Wafa Ghnaim, curator for the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C. and Senior Research Fellow for The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Ancient Near East, intertwines memory, history, politics and embroidery in sharing traditional Palestinian patterns and stories passed on to her by her mother.

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Malynne Sternstein: Love without Hope; Benjamins Trials with Surrealism

February 10, 2025 6:30 PM

Cultural theorist and University of Chicago Professor Emerita Malynne Sternstein weaves Czech surrealism into the urgency of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project.

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David France, Staying Alive: Art & Activism in the Time of AIDS

March 31, 2025 6:30 PM

Award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker David France speaks on the achievements, in the midst of terrible necessities, of AIDS activists in art and politics.

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Anne Anlin Cheng, Women on Walls: Architecture, Projection, and Envy

April 08, 2025 6:30 PM

This talk by cultural theorist, Princeton Professor of English, and historian Anne Anlin Cheng takes a collage made by the early 20th-century architect Eileen Gray (collage TR168801, MoMA, circa 1935) as a springboard from which to examine the submerged history of racialized gender in the making of modern architectural theory.

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