Professor of Music Gordon Thomposon discussed an episode in music history when on the same day the Beatles released their album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and the BBC announced that the band would represent the UK in the world's first global television broadcast. Simultaneously, the BBC censors were deciding to ban the recording "A Day in the Life" believing that the song promoted drug use. Thomposon situates the decision to block the broadcast of one of the most important recordings of the 20th century at the intersection of culture, politics, and semiotics.

Professor Vivian Curran will moderate this panel discussion featuring Olivier Dutheillet de Lamothe, a judge on France's Council of State, the Supreme Court of Public Law and William A. Fletcher, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

In this talk, Toker lays out the problem of understanding seven especially perplexing tombs out of the 130 graves he excavated when directing the archaeological campaign below the Cathedral of Florence.

Cohen argues that Hirschhorn's installations in banlieues of Amsterdam do not attempt to mobilize the precariat for legislative changes and civil rights, but instead, to redefine preexisting terms of attention/circulation concerning their widely stereotyped and marginalized publicity. In other words, the artist challenges the monocular, homogenizing vision of a dominant public and mediascape.

SÚM was a loosely affiliated artist's collective that was founded following a 1965 self-organized exhibition of works by Jón Gunnar Árnason, Hreinn Friofinnsson, Sigurjón Jóhannsson, and Haukur Sturluson. In this talk, Pollentier discusses the emergence of SÚM, provides a brief overview of the group's major projects, and examines how the collective practices of its members provided a critique of the political and cultural environment of the 1960s and 70s.

This presentation examined a transformative moment for the traditional procession known as the Inchinata between the mid thirteenth and fourteenth century, a period characterized by the advent of the mendicant friars with their new models of personal devotion and do-it-yourself religion, the emergence of confraternities, the growing prominence of trade guilds, the solidifying of municipal government, the rise of the middle classes, and a new emphasis on penitential pilgrimage, especially to the city of Rome.

Late medieval audiences read the Bible in different languages, including the language of pictorial narrative.... This paper focuses on two intimately related manuscripts - a late twelfth-century Spanish narrative picture Bible produced for Sancho el Fuerte of Navarre (Amiens, B.m. ms. 108) and a fourteenth-century, stylistically-updated version of the same visual narrative (New York Public Library, Spencer 22).

Harvard Economist Dani Rodrik described how "Unconditional convergence is alive and well, but that we need to look for it within manufacturing industries rather than the economy as a whole. Industries that start at lower levels of labor productivity grow faster, regardless of the quality of policies or institutions in their home economies." For more, see Professor Rodrik's blog: http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2011/09/unconditional-conv....

Professor Picciotto pre-circulated her essay to facilitate discussion on the relationship between Protestantism, experimental science, the public sphere, and intellectual labor itself.