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James Gallardo MFA - Mid Residency Recital

Performance The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts

Tue, Nov 11 / 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

CalArts Campus
CDI Seminar 3: Reason Without Freedom? Tia Trafford and Amanda Beech

Lecture / Reading School of Critical Studies

Tia Trafford and Amanda Beech will discuss the ways that a commitment to freedom as both practice and norm has been key to formulating possibilities for difference, agency, and self-determination in laboring against or through the dominant hegemonies of capitalism. Zoom link: https://calarts.zoom.us/j/94724767609?pwd=h4HClcWqXPM4NKfdVQp6FABF9lVC4…

Sat, Nov 16 / 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM

CalArts Campus
Center for Discursive Inquiry: Seminar 1 Fall 2025

Workshop School of Critical Studies

We are delighted to announce the first discussion seminar for 2025 from the Center for Discursive Inquiry with Adam Walker. Adam will present their current work under our theme: At the Conjuncture: Art and the Imagination.

Sat, Oct 11 / 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Virtual

Past events

2024

At the conjuncture: art and the imagination

2023

Uma Breakdown - A knife made of refuse
Bahar Noorizadeh - Admiror: A Palaver on Capitalism and Sentiments
Nizan Shikad
J.P. Caron - Capital, Norms, Patterns
Center for Discursive Inquiry Hosts Jaleh Mansoor
Pete Wolfendale - On Containing Multitudes

2022

Keith Tilford - Where the Box is Blackest: Synthetic Intelligence and the Imagination After Kant
Christine Wertheim - What’s number got to do with it? : Cantor, Gödel, Turing and Lacan’s forms of Sexuation
Patricia Reed - On Spatial Aesthetemes and Conceptual Embedding

2021

Life doesn’t want to be healed: The Instability of Structure and its Formalization in Lacanian Psychoanalysis