Culture Nights
Spring 2025
From hormone-laced waters to the specters of de-extinction, the Planetary Futures series traces the strange creatures and stranger feelings that arise from our chemical present. Speakers unravel the colonial pasts and racial and sexual metaphysics that haunt, warp, and reimagine what it means to have a future at all.
Me and Tess saying goodbye to our three-year project
The attentive crowd attending Shannon Gayk's talk
Me, presenting the Planetary Futures Series: The beginning of the end for the Culture Nights!
Me and Tess saying goodbye to our three-year project
Julie Talantino's rocking presentation
Introducing Jeanne Vaccaro's talk
The always-amazing Jeanne Vaccaro
Julie Talantino's rocking presentation
Fall 2023
This series explored what counts as criticism—and who gets to decide. Moving beyond the bounds of conventional scholarship, the series brought together scholars and artists working in film, textiles, how-to guides, memoir, and more, asking how creative form can challenge, expand, or even refuse the limits of academic method.
Spring 2023
Indiana University, 2021-2022.
This lecture series engaged a range of topics in the esoteric and the occult to set in motion the ostensibly opposed concepts of science and religion, the material and the immaterial, fact and fabulation, and spirituality and sexuality.
Kirin Wachter-Grene
Solimar Otero's archives of Conjure
Hannah Zeavin talking about The Cult and Occult of Psychoanalysis
Kirin Wachter-Grene