WEAVING AS METAPHOR LECTURE SERIES

Whenever Wednesday, April 13 @ 6:30pm
Explore the idea of weaving in the cultural landscape through a series of programs inspired by the work of Sheila Hicks. Area scholars draw out these ideas in their own fields—music, architecture, economics, and religion—unraveling the ways weaving threads through so much of the contemporary and the ancient world.

This evening's program features Economics with Phil Nichols, Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Chair Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania. Research interests include: International trade and investment, and emerging economies.

We often think of cultural and social values as static and separate. They are not. Just as Sheila Hicks's art emerges from interwoven fibers, idioms and ideas from many sources and places, so too do societies. This talk discusses research into understanding and transplanting social institutions from one culture to another. It also wrestles with the question of the morality of purposefully transplanting those institutions.

Photo by Bastiaan van den Berg

MIRANDA // THE ICA BLOG

Read Miranda and find out why, in preparation for ICA's upcoming Bill Walton exhibition (fall 2011), a student intern is making a list of every single object in the late sculptor's studio. "I have a notebook filled with pages and pages of everything that's here," Sam says. "Tools, and slippers, and all kinds of things."
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