Harold E. Dickson Memorial Lectures
The annual Dickson Memorial Lecture Series in Art History invites outside scholars to share their latest research.
In March, Professor Dr. Huey Copeland from the University of Pennsylvania presented “Thinking the Unthought: Notes on Discipline and Value.” This Dickson Lecture, drawn from his new book project, considered how disciplinary structures differently value and tend towards the racialized historicity of the aesthetic, above all to those blackened beings whose everywhere present yet suppressed exertions continue to provide the preconditions for the emergence of the modern world, the human, and work of artists on the engendering of both. Presented to an overflow crowd, Professor Copeland’s lecture offered important ways to reflect on broad issues in the discipline.
Emily Carris Duncan introduced her weaving and indigo dye study, "Trouble the Water," which explores what happens when sound waves and vocal frequencies are introduced to the dye bath during the dye process as a way of imprinting the sounds into the final woven product. Her visit, part of the Dickson Lecture Series, included an artist talk and weaving workshop December 11-12, 2024.