European Humanities University and Contemporary Art Centre
present a series of public lectures by distinguished scholars in Visual and Cultural Studies

Friday 23 April, 18.00, CAC Reading Room
James Elkins “Can pictures think?”

James Elkins - E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA). His writing focuses on the history and theory of images in art, science, and nature. Some of his books are exclusively on fine art (What Painting Is, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?). Others include scientific and non-art images, writing systems, and archaeology (The Domain of Images, On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them), and some are about natural history (How to Use Your Eyes). Current projects include a series called the Stone Summer Theory Institutes, a book called The Project of Painting: 1900-2000, a series called Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Art, and a book written against Camera Lucida.
The lecture will be followed by the presentation of the book Studying the Visual World (translated into Russian – EHU Press, 2010)


Tuesday 27 April, 18.00, CAC Reading Room
Lev Manovich “Visualization as The New Language of Theory”

Thursday 29 April, 18.00, CAC Reading Room
Scott Lash “Capitalist Power and the Social Imaginary”

Saturday 1 May, 18.00, CAC Reading Room
Janet Wolff “The question of a sociological poetics: metaphors, models and theory”


This series is sponsored by HESP OSI and held in the framework of HESP Challenge seminar Visual Studies of Immedia: Exporing the Postmodern Immediacy of mass media (EHU, Laboratory of Visual and Cultural Studies)
For more information on these and other events, please visit the websites at:
www.ehu.lt, www.viscult.ehu.lt

All events are free and open to the public.