Events

Wed, 8 October 2025
12:30PM
Big Power Talks #3
Bomi Park, Maeve Sullivan, and Maia Hjelmar Morgan
Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.

Thu, 9 October 2025
3:00PM
Tania Bruguera’s Permanent Revolution
Hilary Thurlow
A presentation on the influential and politically complex work of contemporary Cuban artist Tania Bruguera.

Fri, 10 October 2025
9:00AM
Believing what you see: Trust and vision from the French Revolution to Generative AI
A day-long symposium on the truth of images in public life, and the relationship between visual understanding and societal trust

Wed, 15 October 2025
12:30PM
Big Power Talks #4
Dylan He, Noah Farrugia, and Sage Belgum
Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.

Thu, 16 October 2025
12:30PM
Power Reading Group: 65,000 Years
The Power Institute's regular reading group, focusing on new ideas and research in art history and visual culture.

Wed, 22 October 2025
5:00PM
Visualities of destruction: war and ecocide at Kakhovka Dam
Olga Boichak, Michael Richardson, and Ann Elias
A seminar on the emerging visual regimes of destruction in contemporary wars, focusing on the 2023 destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine’s South by the invading Russian army.

Thu, 23 October 2025
3:00PM
Mughal architecture and picture postcards
Miranda Luo and Jennifer Yang
Presentations by two Art History PhD candidates on their current research.

Wed, 29 October 2025
6:00PM
Survival as Care in Hong Kong Art
Yeewan Koon
A lecture on practices of care in contemporary Hong Kong art.

Thu, 30 October 2025
3:00PM
Tracing the Plantation Archipelago in Australia and the Pacific
Dashiell Moore
A presentation on artistic and literary representations of plantations across Australia, Vanuatu and Fiji, and the archipelagic logic of power that undergirds them.

Thu, 6 November 2025
3:00PM
Visual anxiety and visual culture in early modern Europe
Katrina Grant
A presentation on the crisis of vision in early modern Europe.