We are pleased to welcome Lamia Balafrej, Associate Professor of Arts of the Islamic World at UCLA, who will deliver a talk titled "The Feminized Robot as Palimpsest: On Jawari's Forgotten Mediation." Image: Automated enslaved woman (jāriya), folio from a copy of al-Jāmiʿ bayn al-ʿilm wa al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal of Ibn al-Razzāz al-Jazarī, probably Āmid, 1206. Istanbul: Topkapı Palace Library (Ms. Ahmet III 3472, fol. 113v).

Claire Wintle, University of Brighton, Centre for Design History will speak on "Anxiety, Control, and Performative Change in Postwar Museum Storage." Joe Mabel, Sculptures in "visible storage," Maryhill Museum of Art, Maryhill, Washington, U.S., Creative Commons License Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Image description: White marble and plaster busts sit on clean white shelves under a fluorescent […]