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The talks listed below will be held in the Lecture Hall for a limited in-person audience in addition to being accessible via Zoom. In-person tickets are being made available to the BGC community before opening to the general public next week for select talks.

If you would like to attend an event in person, please enter the promo code “BGC” at the checkout window and select the “General Admission (Lecture Hall)” ticket option.

Seats will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis until we reach the maximum capacity.


 

Thursday, February 10, 12:15 pm: Sarah R. Cohen
“Sugar, Silver and the Bourbon Sucriers: Sweetening Slavery in Eighteenth-Century France”

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Tuesday, February 15, 6 pm: Claudia Swan
“The Dutch Colonial Imaginary”

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Monday, February 21, 12:15 pm: Ariel Fein
“Fatimid Wood Networks: Production, Consumption, Circulation”

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Tuesday, March 1, 6 pm: Charlotte Vignon
“Rebuilding the City of Ceramic: Projects for the Renovation of the Sèvres Museum”

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Wednesday, March 2, 6 pm: Jeffrey Gibson, Sendhil Mullainathan, Marla Spivak, and Campbell McGrath
MacArthur x BGC: What is Conservation?

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Wednesday, March 16, 6 pm: Paul Basu
“Museum Affordances: Colonial Collections, Decolonial Possibilities”

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Monday, March 21, 12:15 pm: Louisa Wood Ruby
“Colonial Dutch ‘She-Merchants’ as Collectors”

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Tuesday, March 22, 6 pm: Lothar von Falkenhausen
“The Current State of Archaeology in China”

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Friday, March 25, 1-5 pm: Symposium—High Availability
Museums’ Digital Response During the Pandemic

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Monday, March 28, 12:15 pm: Lisa Regazzoni
“How Can a Gathering of Things Be Transformed into a Scientific Collection? Experimenting with Reinhart Koselleck’s Material Estate”

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Tuesday, March 29, 6 pm: Mónica Domínguez Torres
“Heavenly Pearls: Nature, Religion, and Politics in Habsburg Spain”

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Tuesday, April 5, 6 pm: Alison J. Clarke
“Design Anthropology: Industrial Design and the Project of Post-War Development”

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Wednesday, April 13, 6 pm: Bénédicte Savoy
“Africa’s Struggle for its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat 1965-1985”

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Tuesday, April 19, 6 pm: Carlo Ginzburg
Lichtenberg’s Knife: A Few Reflections on Conservation”

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Tuesday, April 26, 6 pm: Anne Lafont
“Making Ornamental Africa: An Enlightenment Process”

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Wednesday, April 27, 6 pm: Annette Gordon-Reed, Lauren Redniss, Danielle Bassett, and Stanley Nelson
MacArthur x BGC: What is Conservation?

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Friday, May 13, 2-5 pm: Claudia Rankine, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Tomashi Jackson, K. Anthony Jones, and Francey Russell
Symposium—Richard Tuttle What Is the Object?

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Wednesday, May 18, 6 pm: Ubaldo Vitali, Emily Wilson, and Beth Shapiro
MacArthur x BGC: What is Conservation?

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