Events

A man looks at an abstract artwork

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.

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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. 

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A day-long symposium on the truth of images in public life, and the relationship between visual understanding and societal trust

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A man looks at an abstract artwork

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.

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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.

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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.

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An architectural interior

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.

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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. 

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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.

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Katrina Grant

A presentation on the crisis of vision in early modern Europe. 

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