Francisco Scarano Lecture Series – Inaugural Talk
Join us for the inaugural lecture of the Puerto Rican Studies Hub’s Francisco Scarano Lecture Series, honoring UW–Madison Professor Emeritus Francisco A. Scarano. In “Peasants, Doctors, and Empires,” he examines how medicine and empire shaped Puerto Rican life around 1900. Arrive early to visit Caribbean Matters: Cuestiones Caribeñas by Pablo Delano, co-curated by Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo. Lecture begins at 5:30 p.m.
Join us for a light reception before the talk. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 4:30 p.m. Cost: free and open to the public. Information: 263-1661, prstudies.hub@wisc.edu
Experiencing Music in the Holocaust: Talk by Teryl Dobbs
Music in the Holocaust is often perceived as means of hope, resistance, and inspiration. However, a dark side existed: the Nazi regime employed music as propaganda, for inciting riots, and as a form of torture. Hence, music was experienced in profoundly different ways: it could sooth, comfort, and inspire hope as well as serve as a means of pain. Join Teryl (Teri) Dobbs, PhD, professor emerita, UW-Madison, in this public talk as she explores the complicated musical experience of the Holocaust. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
Leilehua Lanzilotti: Screening and Talk
The hidden soundscapes of Toshiko Takaezu’s closed ceramics have long captivated Leilehua Lanzilotti, Kanaka Maoli sound artist, composer, and co-curator of the exhibition Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within. Over the course of several years, Lanzilotti collected recordings of Takaezu’s closed forms, gently tapping their surfaces and revolving them so the small ceramic rattles within them resound.
Free and open to all. RSVPs appreciated. Walk-ins welcome as capacity allows. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-7 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
Japanese Tea Ceremony Demonstration and Discussion
Inspired by the vessels on view in "Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within", Nyosen Nakamura Sensei, Headmaster of the Kogetsu Enshu School of Zen Tea Ceremony in Japan, will demonstrate and discuss his art.
Guests will learn and experience the history and philosophy of samurai tea, the connections between mindfulness and tea, and the precise, and the flowing movements of tea-making which offer a living expression of intentionality and presence. Chazen Museum of Art. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
The Story Won’t Tell Itself
Join us for a conversation with David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson as well as a local historian and educator about the cultural legacy of Jim’s character from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. After the publication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim became a cultural symbol and garnered a life of his own on stage, in visual culture, in literary history, and elsewhere. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:30 p.m. Cost: Free and open to the public . Information: bwillig@wisc.edu
Lecture: Come to Your Senses! — Sensiotics and Understandings of Arts and Culture in Africa and Beyond
This presentation by Henry J. Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Emeritus Professor in African Art, will be a multimedia and multisensorial performance in the African and African Diaspora tradition of “Call and Response.” With images, sounds, film, and movement, we will consider Sensiotics, an approach that centers the crucial importance of the senses, our body-minds, and sense-abilities in understandings of the arts, cultures, and histories. The talk has global implications. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art (Also offered online). 4:30-6 p.m. Information: 772-1026, avandrzejews@wisc.edu
Lecture: Illustrated Chinese Books and their Publics at Home and Abroad
Lecture by Prof. Julia Murray, Professor Emerita, Department of Art History.
Lecture synopsis: The period from the late sixteenth through seventeenth centuries is often called the "golden age" of illustration in woodblock-printed Chinese books. During this time, both the numbers and variety of illustrated publications dramatically increased, reaching wider and more diverse audiences than ever before. This lecture will explore visually appealing examples from a range of genres. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art (Also offered online). 5:30 p.m. Information: 263-2341, avandrzejews@wisc.edu
Amanda J. Guzmán Talk – “Collected Puerto Rico: Re-assembling Object Itineraries in Museum and Art Contexts”
This talk will explore the potential of taking up Puerto Rican museum collections and contemporary art as objects of analysis, sites of memory, and models of practice.
Free and open to all. RSVPs appreciated, walk-ins welcome. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
Film Screening and Talk: Suneil Sanzgiri and Anamika Singh with Preeti Chopra
Join Suneil Sanzgiri and Anamika Singh for a pair of special screenings related to Corpus, an exhibition by Anamika Singh. Following the films, both filmmakers will be in conversation with Dr. Preeti Chopra about their respective works and shared themes of power, destruction, and memory.
Registration encouraged, but not required. No audio or video recording will be permitted. This program is co-sponsored by the UW–Madison Center for South Asia. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 2-4 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
Artist Talk: Marie Watt
Join us for an artist talk by Tandem Press artist-in-residence Marie Watt as she discusses her work and process in a free public lecture at the Chazen Museum of Art.
Marie Watt (lives and works in Portland, OR) is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians (Turtle Clan) and also has German-Scot ancestry. Her interdisciplinary work draws from history, biography, Haudenosaunee protofeminism, and Indigenous teachings; in it she explores the intersection of history, community, and storytelling. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5:30 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 263-3437, info@tandempress.wisc.edu