Latest Past Events

The Sixth Annual Borsch-Rast Lecture

GTU Dinner Board Room, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library 2400 Ridge Rd, Berkeley

The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to host Dr. Kathryn Barush, Thomas E. Bertelsen Jr. Associate Professor of Art History and Religion, for the sixth annual Borsch-Rast Lecture for her 2021 publication, Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience (Bloomsbury Visual Arts). In her acclaimed book, Dr. Barush explores contemporary artworks created after pilgrimage experiences, which are intended […]

Free

The Art of Walking (Chair: Judith Rodenbeck, UC Riverside)

College Art Association Conference NY

From the wanderers of Caspar David Friedrich or the flaneurs of Charles Baudelaire to Paul Klee taking a line for a walk or Ghandi leading the Salt March to the Wall Street crawls of William Pope L or the sonic scapes of Janet Cardiff, the activity of walking has been thematized as resistance--whether to the speed of capital and the logics of the imperium or simply to the rushed pace and sheer business of contemporary life. A dérive interrupting thoughtless transit from a to b, the embodied practice of walking is, deliberately undertaken, a mode of thinking as well as doing. This panel aims to investigate the walk in contemporary artistic practice. Themes may include: the mechanics of ambulation; walking as thought, as escape, as flight, as penance, as punishment, as pilgrimage; self-powered movement as forensic, slow, embodied, as individuated and collective--walking as, to borrow from the critic Mario Pedrosa, an "experimental practice of freedom." Presentations are welcome to range across an array of topics and modalities, from address to physiological basics-–the foot, the human form, bipedalism, gravity—to physical and spatial exercises and thought experiments to specific cultural and geopolitical examples, with particular attention to the contemporary explosion in art-walking as a sophisticated collective and ecological, even ethological, response to hypermodernity.

Annual Meeting of American Academy of Religion (Ritual Studies Unit)

Denver, CO

Berkeley Art & Pilgrimage Project-related events and talks at the American Academy of Religion conference in Denver, CO: Saturday, Nov. 19th, 4:30 pm:  come pick up a postcard for our latest pilgrimage and chat with Dr. Kathryn Barush & advisory board member Dr. Cogen Bohanec about the project (GTU booth) Saturday, Nov. 19th, 6:00 pm: […]