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Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Past Lectures
Ken Fischer and Wynton Marsalis: Everybody In, Nobody Out
April 9, 2021
Exploring community connection through the performing arts, UMS President Emeritus Ken Fischer and jazz musician Wynton Marsalis… Read More >
Raney Aronson-Rath: A Conversation
April 2, 2021
Raney Aronson-Rath is the executive producer of FRONTLINE, PBS’ flagship investigative journalism series, and a leading voice on… Read More >
Pipilotti Rist: Kind (of a) Talk
March 26, 2021
Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, a pioneer of spatial video art, has been a central figure within the international art scene since the… Read More >
Sun Young Park: Designing Health Technology to Empower Patients
March 19, 2021
Successful chronic illness management requires active patient participation and effective communication among the patient,… Read More >
Chitra Ganesh: On Utopia and Dissent
March 12, 2021
Chitra Ganesh is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. For the past 20 years, Ganesh's drawing based practice has shed light on… Read More >
Jad Abumrad: Making "Dolly Parton's America"
March 5, 2021
Jad Abumrad is the host and creator of Radiolab, a public radio program broadcast on nearly 600 stations across the nation and… Read More >
Sophia Brueckner: Sci-Fi Prototyping and Critical Optimism
February 26, 2021
Inseparable from computers since the age of two, Sophia Brueckner believes she is a cyborg. As a software engineer at Google, she… Read More >
Jaume Plensa: Can You Hear Me?
February 19, 2021
“Can You Hear Me?” is a documentary film that follows internationally celebrated Spanish artist Jaume Plensa for a year and a half,… Read More >
Candy Chang: Transforming Our Cities
February 12, 2021
Through the activation of public spaces around the world, Taiwanese-American artist Candy Chang creates work that examines the… Read More >
Pedro Reyes: At Home in Coyoacán
February 5, 2021
Mexican artist Pedro Reyes has won international attention for large-scale projects that address current social and political… Read More >
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Eric Foner: In Conversation
January 29, 2021
Pausing for a moment of post inaugural reflection, following one of our nation’s most contentious presidential elections, this… Read More >
Ayana Evans: Persona as Social Justice
January 22, 2021
Ayana Evans is a NYC based performance artist who grew up on the south side of Chicago. The sensibilities of both locations heavily… Read More >
Amy Cutler: Telling Stories
December 4, 2020
Amy Cutler is an internationally acclaimed artist best known for her enigmatic depictions of women performing strange, cryptic… Read More >
Raqs Media Collective: Kinetic Contemplations
November 20, 2020
Raqs Media Collective, formed in 1992 by Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, argues for a mode of “kinetic… Read More >
Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt: The People Beyond the Screen: Designing for human connection
November 13, 2020
Designing for human connection and mutual respect are common threads in User Experience (UX) Designer Kelly Murdoch-Kitt’s… Read More >
From the Archives: Temple Grandin: Thinking in Pictures
November 6, 2020
NOTE: The scheduled presentation by Pedro Reyes and Magalí Arriola has been postponed due to technical difficulties. In its place,… Read More >
Nusrat Durrani: An American Prayer
October 30, 2020
Nusrat Durrani is a pioneering media executive and award-winning creative renowned for cutting-edge work in television, film,… Read More >
Ibrahim Mahama: In-Between the World and Dreams
October 23, 2020
This conversation brings together collaborators of the ambitious Institute for the Humanities-led project, In-Between the World and… Read More >
Philippa Hughes: Dismantling the Polarization Industrial Complex
October 16, 2020
Philippa P.B. Hughes is a social sculptor and creative strategist who produces art-fueled projects that spark humanizing and… Read More >
Form&Seek Design Collective: Never Normal
October 9, 2020
Bilge Nur Saltik (Founder, Form&Seek), Aaron Blendowski (Artist & Designer) and Alison Wong (Director + Curator, Wasserman… Read More >
