City arts and lectures recordings11/24/2023 Lecture: A Constructivist’s Guide to Robot Learning Lecturer: Lerrel Pinto, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Focusing in part on the Mexico City-based grassroots archival initiative, Archivo El Insulto, it argues for sustained dialog between booksellers, antiques vendors, researchers, artists, and archivists to work collaboratively toward the historical preservation and digital display of vintage erotica and pornography to interconnected scholarly and activist ends. It then shows how such movements resonate with how historical erotica and pornography today circulate among flea markets, bookshops, private collections, and historical archives. Focusing first on the now-absent confiscated artifacts from the archives of the eighteenth-century Mexican Inquisition-explicit clocks, statues, and alms boxes-it looks at how such objects entered and exited multiple hands, collections, and (temporary) resting places. This talk theorizes the notion of erotic archival entanglements in Mexico by tracing connections between the categories of the “obscene” and the “pornographic” across time, from the eighteenth century to the present. Lecture: Erotic Archival Entanglements: Memory Projects and Erasures of the “Obscene” in Mexico Lecturer: Zeb Tortorici, Associate Professor of Spanish Professor Barnard will argue that California’s state government has abdicated authority over this system, leaving the question of who receives compassionate care and who faces coercion dependent on the financial incentives of for-profit facilities, the constraints of under resourced clinicians, and the desperate struggles of families to obtain treatment for their loved ones. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservators, this talk examines California's conservatorship system, tracing the conservatorship process from the streets where police encounter homeless people in crisis, the locked wards where people receiving treatment are confined, and the courtrooms where judges decide on conservatorship petitions. Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years, politicians and advocates in states like California and New York have sought to expand the use of conservatorships, a legal tool used to force someone deemed “gravely disabled,” or unable to meet their needs for food, clothing, or shelter as a result of mental illness, to take medication and be placed in a locked facility. Lecture: Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness Lecturer: Alex Barnard, Assistant Professor of Sociology
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