September 23–27 Elective Affinities: 7th International Conference
on Word and Image
Cosponsors include Penn Humanities Forum
Tuesday, September 27 Comix 101, Art Spiegelman
World-renowned graphic novelist Cosponsors: Office of the Provost, International Conference on Word & Image, Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Jewish Studies Program
Monday, October 10 Obelisks and Ancient Inscriptions, Anthony Grafton
Dodge Professor of History, Princeton
University
Friday, October 28 Piano virtuoso Marc André Hamelin and soprano
Jody Karin Applebaum
in a special Cabaret Performance at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in conjunction with dossier show for Edvard Munch’s Mermaid
Wednesday, November 2 Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Professor of Communication
and Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Penn, on the deflective
power of images in political ads
Wednesday, November 16 Public Art, Jenny Holzer
American conceptual artist, as the 2005 Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities
Wednesday, November 30 John Maeda
MIT New Media artist
December 7 Mapping America's Pacific Coast
Henry Wendt
Retired Chairman of the Board,
SmithKline Beecham In association with the Arthur Ross
Gallery exhibition Mapping the Pacific Coast:
Coronado to Lewis and Clark, The Quivira Collection (September 24, 2005 – January 9, 2006)
Spring 2006
Wednesday, January
25 Jennifer Mnookin
University of Virigina Law Professor,
on Visual and Expert Evidence in the
American Courtroom
Wednesday, February 1 Emma Dillon
Penn Music Professor, on Medieval musical notation
Wednesday, February 8 Yoram (Jerry) Wind
Wharton Marketing Professor, on Brands
and Logos
Wednesday, February 22 Steve Tinney
Penn Museum Babylonian authority, on Sumerian Tablets
Wednesday, March 1 Bruce L. Miller, MD
Distinguished Professor of Neurology,
UCSF,
on Art and Aging
Wednesday, March 15 Pam McClusky
Seattle Art
Museum Curator of African and Oceanic Art, on aboriginal stories
mapped
onto landscapes
Friday, March 17 Symposium: Photography and Literature
PHF, cosponsor of German
Department conference
Wednesday, March 29 Jane Caplan
Bryn Mawr historian, on the Tattoo
Wednesday, April 5 Richard Foreman
Legendary Artistic Director and
Founder
of the internationally acclaimed
experimental Ontological-Hysteric
Theatre In association with Penn's Theatre
Arts Program
Wednesday, April 12 Physicians Rita Charon
and Murray Grossmanon Medical Diagnosis
through
Word and Image