‘Whap!’ Lecture Series on the Arts Continuing at the New West Hollywood Library
January 31st, 2012
Topics Will Include Critical and Political Theory,
Film, Art and Architecture
WEST HOLLYWOOD – The City of West Hollywood, partnered with the California Institute of the Arts’ Masters Program in Aesthetics and Politics, continues to co-host “Whap!,” a new lecture series on topics including critical and political theory, art and architecture. “Whap!” will also feature film screenings and related discussions. The series, which began in October 2011, is one of the first to take place in the City Council Chambers at the New West Hollywood Library which is located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard in West Hollywood.
“Whap! brings internationally renowned artists, philosophers, and scholars to our City to open up new avenues for dialogue and thought about the world around us. As we open the doors of our new library to these conversations, everyone is welcome to come and engage in the discussion,” said West Hollywood Councilmember John D’Amico.
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was the nation’s first art institute to offer Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in the visual and performing arts. It is internationally renowned as one of the leading centers for undergraduate and graduate study in the performing and visual arts and in the critical study of these arts.
The “Whap!” lecture series schedule includes:
- Can or Ought the Political and Religious be Separated? – Friday, March 9, 2012 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. City Council Chambers in the West Hollywood Library. Etienne Balibar, a prolific author on Marxist, moral and political philosophies, will be featured. He is Professor Emeritus of moral and political philosophy at the Université de Paris X-Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California-Irvine.
- Biology and Politics – Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. City Council Chambers in the West Hollywood Library. This lecture will include Catherine Malabou, who teaches philosophy at Kingston University in London and is known for her work on the notion of plasticity at the crossroads of philosophy and neuroscience; biologist and statistician Mike Bryant, a science instructor at the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts; and Arne de Boever, editor of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy and the director of the Masters Program in Aesthetics and Politics at the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.
- Aesthetics of Translation – Friday, April 6, 2012, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. City Council Chambers in the West Hollywood Library. This lecture will feature Erik Bullot, a filmmaker and scholar of modern French cinema, and instructor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges in France. Also taking part will be award-winning filmmaker and documentarian Rebecca Baron and Jon Nelson-Wagner, Visiting Professor of Film Theory at USC and professor of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, and a core member of its MFA Writing Program.
- Constructing the Future – Friday, May 4, 2012 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. City Council Chambers in the West Hollywood Library. Ric Abramson, Norman Klein and John d’Amico will host this lecture. Abramson teaches at the USC School of Architecture, and his professional practice focuses on creative land use strategies, urban housing typologies, hybrid programs, residential hillsides and urban infill. Klein is a novelist, cultural critic, and urban and media historian. D’Amico is a City of West Hollywood City Councilmember and a California Institute of the Arts alumni.
All “Whap!” lectures will be free and open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Pay parking will be available at the West Hollywood Park/Library Parking Garage at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard (enter from Robertson Boulevard at El Tovar Place).
For more information contact Michelle Rex, Deputy to West Hollywood Councilmember John D’Amico at (323) 848-6460.
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