• The Arts and Humanities at the Event Horizon

    The Arts and Humanities at the Event Horizon

    Shep Doeleman on Photographing Black Holes CELESTIAL SPHERES Date: March 12, 2026 Time: 06:00PM EDT Location: Barker Center, Thompson Room Speaker: Shep Doeleman, Harvard University / Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Can you take a photograph of a black hole? What does it mean to have imaged an object whose nature is to remain unseen? Black holes…

  • Launching from Print

    Launching from Print

    Jennifer L. Roberts Association of Print Scholars 10th Annual DIstinguished Scholar LectureX.D. and Nancy Yang Professor of Arts and SciencesDrew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities Harvard UniversityNovember 14th, 2025

  • Mediating the Moon

    Mediating the Moon

    Imaging as Observation and Simulation Location: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Speaker: Brooke Belisle, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, Department of Art Institute for Advanced Computational Science Black holes are probably the most fascinating objects in nature. Their study places us at the frontier between known and unknown physical laws—at the intersection of classical General Relativity,…

  • Excursus from the Observatory

    Excursus from the Observatory

    Kunstuniversitaet Linz Date: 2. Dezember 2025, Time: 18.00 Uhr Location: Avditorij Narodne galerije, Ljubljana 1000 Organized by the Relatifs Lecture Series of Kunstuniversitaet Linz. Plates, Fields, a lecture by Alena J. Williams, Professor for Theory and Mediation of Contemporary Art in the Department for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts…