Art & Design Forum | Brianne Cohen
Art forum
The Empathic Lens: Art, Animism, and Ecology in Contemporary Southeast Asia This talk will introduce my forthcoming book, The Empathic Lens: Art, Animism, and Ecology in Contemporary Southeast Asia (University of Minnesota Press, fall 2026). Examining a range of photography and video work, The…
Eliciting Plasma Illumination as a Responsive and Relational Medium within Blown Glass | Harriet Schwarzrock
Gallery
Officially opened by Head of School of Art & Design, Geoff Hinchcliffe. Drawing on the dual etymology of plasma as both a luminous state of matter and a vascular component of blood, I create blown-glass objects that explore the boundaries between object and observer through intimate,…
Counterfactual Skepticism Reloaded (and Refuted?)
Seminar
According to Counterfactual Skepticism, we know next to none of the counterfactuals we assert in ordinary life. The most influential argument for this conclusion rests on premises that are now widely disputed. This talk outlines a new argument for Counterfactual Skepticism that does not depend on…
The Microfoundations of Global Public Opinion about Great Powers
Lecture/seminar
International opinion about the world’s great powers is increasingly framed as a central arena of soft-power competition. But we know relatively little about the global distribution and microfoundations of people’s attitudes towards great powers. In this paper, Professor Ben Goldsmith develops and…
Second Fleet Women: First-Rate Survivors
Lecture/seminar
In this pre-submission seminar, Nichola Garvey presents her thesis research on a group biographical study of the women transported on the Second Fleet vessel Neptune. It asks a deceptively simple question: how did these women survive? It examines survival on both the Neptune voyage,…
Fertility, mortality, life satisfaction: Research results waiting for follow-up
Seminar
This talk presents a taster of some findings that Marion Burkimsher has presented at conferences but not taken further. Topics include:Comparing expectations with the reality of childbearing; What the fertility curve can tell us about the processes affecting the TFR; Trends in birth intervals and…
Problematising Water: an experiment on the edges of interdisciplinarity
Lecture/seminar
Problematising water: an experiment on the edges of interdisciplinarity is a manifestation of thinking with water across a range of disciplines including urban geography, sociology, anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and ethnomethodology. In this presentation, Nicole Vitellone will…