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Lecture series: Nature and Sovereignty

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Lecture series
Art Theory and Cultural Studies
Schillerplatz 3
1010 Vienna
M13a

The talks are held in English.

Three talks on the legacy of colonial histories in North America; the privatization of nature and land; and the logic of the plantation and enclosure on contemporary life organized by Alena Williams, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in Winter Semester 2025/26.

Legacies of the Plantation
K. Wayne Yang, Professor of Ethnic Studies & Provost of John Muir College, Co-founder, Indigenous Futures Institute, University of California, San Diego
Monday, 13.10. 2025, 17h

From Plantations to Invasive Infrastructures: Kanaka Maoli Mobilization for 'Āina
Architectural Historian Kelema Moses, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Member, Indigenous Futures Institute, University of California, San Diego
Friday, 17.10.2025, 11h

North of Robert Duncanson’s Canvas
Art Historian Evan Neely, Associate Chair, History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, New York
Wednesday, 3.12.2025, 11h

  • K. Wayne Yang: Legacies of the Plantation

    Scholar K. Wayne Yang will deliver one of three lectures on the legacy of colonial history in North America; the privatization of nature and land; and the logic of the plantation and enclosure on contemporary life in the series Nature and Sovereignty organized by Alena Williams, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in Winter Semester 2025/26.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ M13a

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    The image shows a historic site under a bright sky. A house is visible within a grassy field surrounded by palm trees, a tall brick chimney, a smaller brick ruin, and two historical information markers.

  • Kelema Moses: From Plantations to Invasive Infrastructures: Kanaka Maoli Mobilization for 'Āina

    Architectural historian Kelema Moses will be discussing Kanaka Maoli epistemologies of the land, sea and sky in Hawai’i. One of three lectures on the legacy of colonial histories in North America; the privatization of nature and land; and the logic of the plantation and enclosure on contemporary life in the series Nature and Sovereignty organized by Alena Williams, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in Winter Semester 2025/26.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ M13a

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Evan Neely: North of Robert Duncanson’s Canvas

    Art historian Evan Neely will be presenting on the work of African American landscape painter Robert S. Duncanson. One of three lectures on the legacy of colonial histories in North America; the privatization of nature and land; and the logic of the plantation and enclosure on contemporary life in the series Nature and Sovereignty organized by Alena Williams, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in Winter Semester 2025/26.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ M13a

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies