Please join us for the first event in the 2016-2017 Bettman Lecture Series: “Materialities and Technologies,” hosted by the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.
John Durham Peters
(University of Iowa)
“A Short Media History of Clouds”
6pm, Monday, September 19
Bettman Lecture Hall (Room 612), Schermerhorn Hall
The lecture is free and open to the public, and it will be followed by a reception in the Stronach Center on the 8th floor of Schermerhorn Hall.
John Durham Peters is the A. Craig Baird Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa and will become Professor of English and Film & Media Studies at Yale in January 2017. Professor Peters studies media theory and history in diverse interdisciplinary contexts. His most recent book is The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (Chicago, 2015). He is currently working on a book project with the late Kenneth Cmiel titled Promiscuous Knowledge: The Information Age in Historical Perspective.
Inaugurated in 2004, the Bettman Lectures are an annual program of lectures in art history sponsored by Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology. Endowed with a bequest from Linda Bettman, a former graduate student of the department, the lectures are named in her honor.