The Department of Art at Swarthmore College announces:

The 2012-2013 Benjamin West Lecture Series:
Critical Histories of Modern Architecture and the Built Environment

Lectures at Swarthmore begin at 4:30pm at the Lang Performing Arts
Center Cinema at Swarthmore College.

Reception to follow.
(For location details: http://www.swarthmore.edu/campusmap/)

Nov 26 : Archaeologists' palaces, indigenous villages, and life at the dig

Zeynep Celik
Distinguished Professor of Architecture, College of Architecture and
Design at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Apr 15 : City and Country in South Asia

Swati Chattopadhyay
Director of The Sub-altern-Popular Workshop, Associate Professor and
Chair, Department of Art and Architecture, University of California,
Santa Barbara

Previous speakers to this series also included:

Sept. 24: From the Bauhaus in Calcutta to the Swiss Minaret Debate: Who
wants Modern Architecture and Why?

Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Professor of Art History, University College Dublin

Oct 4 : American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture

Alice Friedman
Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College

For more information, please contact

Min Kyung Lee, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Modern Architecture
Department of Art
Beardsley 203
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave. Swarthmore, PA 19081 USA
+1 610 690 5755