EventJanuary 14 - 17, 2022
CalArts’ MA Aesthetics and Politics Program has named writer, poet, and scholar Maggie Nelson as its 2022 Theorist-in-Residence. The Theorist in Residence initiative invites theorists focusing on media, urban, or…
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Each semester the CalArts Aesthetics and Politics program invites a theorist focusing on media, urban, or global studies to spend up to two weeks at CalArts to teach workshops, faculty…
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EventJanuary 23, 2019
Aliens — regardless of your beliefs on their existence — are alive in the collective imagination of our culture. On Wednesday, Jan. 23, CalArts’ 2019 MA Aesthetics and Politics Theorist in…
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EventFebruary 1 - 3, 2017
Above: Interview with Lauren Berlant. Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, is CalArts’ MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics’ Theorist in…
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EventNovember 4, 2015
CalArts MA in Aesthetics & Politics (A&P) Program has named Thierry de Duve the Fall 2015 Theorist in Residence. The residency program is an initiative in which media, urban or…
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EventJanuary 23 - March 6, 2015
CalArts’ Aesthetics and Politics Program welcomes Judith Butler as its Theorist in Residence for Spring 2015. Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of…
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EventApril 17 - 24, 2013
John Mullarkey, professor of Film and Television Studies at Kingston University in London, is the School of Critical Studies’ new Theorist in Residence. Mullarkey is on campus this week to…
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