Humanities Research Group

Detroiters Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope have spent six years investigating new models of contemporary art and architectural practice. Their design studio situated itself in the public realm offering over-the-counter consultations and marketed $99 house call specials.

The team will discuss their work as visual artists with their Design 99 studio and as faciliators and collaborators with Power House Productions in a free public presentation “Too Much of a Good Thing,” Thursday, October 18, at 7 p.m. in Assumption University’s Freed-Orman Centre.

Suzanne Anker, chair of the Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, will discuss the interweaving of traditional and experimental media in her free public lecture, “Between Awe and Artifice: Welcome to Wonderland,” on Thursday, October 4, at 7 p.m. in Assumption University’s Freed Orman Centre.

Among the effects of the McGregor-Cowan House in Old Sandwich that entered the used-book market in Windsor was an annotated copy of Giovanni Battista Benedetti’s collected works, his Speculationum Liber (Venice edition of 1599).

Classics professor Robert Weir will examine the insights that this book and its annotations can shed on the intellectual climate of Italy circa 1600 in a free public lecture Wednesday, April 4, at 6 p.m. in Assumption University’s Freed-Orman Centre.

The Humanities Research Group presents Domenico Pietropaolo delivering a free public lecture entitled “Text and the Impromptu Tradition,” Thursday, February 9, at 7 p.m. in Assumption University’s Freed-Orman Centre.

Dr. Pietropaolo is principal of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto, holds the Goggio Chair in Italian Studies and is chair of the Italian studies department. He is also a professor of drama and is cross-appointed to the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, the Centre for Comparative Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies.