The Fall 2022 Program

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The Fall 2022 Program

The fall 2022 schedule of events features lectures and readings by Academy fellows and Distinguished Visitors on topics ranging from computational practices in American electoral politics to prison art in Ming China, from new fiction by Claudia Rankine and Alexandra Chreiteh, to eco-musicology, the idea and image of slavery in Plato, and a cultural history of American violence, among much more.

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Cover Image: Genia Chef: Adventurer, 2002; oil on panel, 18 x 14 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.

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