Past events
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, 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, 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.
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
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.
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.
Wed, 24 September 2025
12:30PM
Big Power Talks #2
Leighlyn Aguilar, Taleah Rust, and Valesca de Jongh
Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.
Wed, 17 September 2025
12:30PM
Big Power Talks #1
Deena Loukadellis, Dominique Park, and Raha Shahidi
Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.
Thu, 11 September 2025
3:00PM
Curious Reincarnations: Counter-Histories of Diem Phung Thi
Roger Nelson
A presentation on the recently recovered artist Diem Phung Thi, and on the implications of their remarkable work for art history in Southeast Asia.
Fri, 5 September 2025
9:45AM
JW Power and Interwar Abstraction
Deborah Barnstone, Donna West Brett, Rebecca Edwards, Giles Fielke, Kate Kangaslahti, Sophie Matthiesson, Keith Rathbone, and Anthony White
A symposium exploring the radical ideas underpinning avant-garde art in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.