Thu, September 12, 2024, 12:00 pm to 12:30 pm
Barbara Christian Conference Room (554 Social Sciences Building)
Mimi Thi Nguyen
“The Promise of Beauty” A Public Lecture by Mimi Thi Nguyen In this talk, I argue that beauty is a fruitful concept through which we engage narratives of crisis. Such narratives name an ongoing condition or an irruptive event through which the discrepancy between the world and what ought to be so often unfolds through citing beauty –whether found in children, coral...