Coevality Speaker Series Dates and Discussion Topics

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 7:00 PM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL, Oakland

PETER SINGER LECTURE: "Ethics for One World"

The most important issues we face today are global rather than national: climate change, economic globalization, extreme poverty, immigration and the responsibility to protect people from genocide and crimes against humanity, whatever country they may be in.  We need to challenge both the prudence and the ethics of those who put forward narrow nationalistic perspectives.  In the lo

“CHUTZ-POW! The Heroism and History of Holocaust Survival”

Identity Constellation in conjunction with: Wayne Wise and Marcel (M.L.) Walker

Forbes Field, the hub of professional baseball in Pittsburgh for most of the twentieth century, has long been recognized as a key piece of the city’s urban development. Commissioned by Pittsburgh Pirates’ owner Barney Dreyfuss in 1909 and designed by landscape architect Charles W. Leavitt, the stadium quickly became noteworthy for its role in the transformation of Oakland into Pittsburgh’s “second center” as part of the larger City Beautiful movement in the United States. Yet it has rarely been examined for its individual architectural importance.

In 1975, Jonas Mekas, film critic at the Village Voice and de facto leader of the New American Cinema movement, proclaimed that Pittsburgh curator Sally Dixon had transformed independent film culture forever. He wrote, “I don’t think I’ll exaggerate by saying that Carnegie’s Film Department under the guidance of Sally Dixon (it was her creation) has been, for the last five years, the country’s most active and productive film center.

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This scholarly symposium has been organized by Jennifer Josten, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, and Katherine Brodbeck, Associate Curator, Carnegie Museum of Art, to complement two concurrent exhibitions: Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium, on vi

Yodo-dono (1569-1615) was the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598), a powerful warlord and one of Japan’s “Three Great Unifiers” of the late sixteenth century. When he died, their young son Hideyori (1593-1615) was only five years old, leaving Yodo-dono to act as his unofficial regent. As such, she was the driving force for much of the Toyotomi family’s patronage of art and architecture during this era.

From Alfred Wegener’s The Origin of the Continents and Oceans, 1915 (English edition, 1924)

For most of history, humans expressed ethical ideas in the form of stories, and of all these the story of Adam and Eve has been perhaps the most powerful and enduring.  For almost three thousand years, in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds, people practiced ethical reasoning through the seedpod of this—even to early audiences—unreasonable tale: the first man, formed by God at the culmination of the world’s creation and followed soon by the first woman, disobeys his creator by eating a forbidden fruit, is punished by sickness, hardship, and death, and passes his curse to the en