Speaker Series
The ISIE Speaker Series aims to share and support exposition scholarship across disciplines and to provide the opportunity to connect with each other on a regular basis.
All Speaker Series lectures are free and open to the public! They are held online via Zoom.
ISIE Speaker Series 2025 - 2026
29 Sept 1 pm*
ONUR OZTURK (Columbia College)
Mussolini's Column and Beyond: The Evolution and Destruction of the 1933 Italian Pavilion Chicago.
20 Nov 1 pm
NICHOLAS CULL (USC)
Overture to an Alliance: British Propaganda at the New York World's Fair, 1939-1940
5 Dec 2 pm
DOROTEA PETRUCCI (London Met)
New York Ready:
Weaponising Italian Design Culture for the 1939 World's Fair
22 Jan 1 pm
KATHLEEN JAMES-CHAKRABORTY
(UCD)
From the Belgian Pavilion to the Belgian Friendship Building: A Remnant of New York's 1939 Fair
23 Feb 1 pm
HANNAH SIGUR (Uni NOVA de Lisboa)
Neoclassicism and National Identity: Japan, The United States and International Expositions 1862-1915
26 Mar 11 am
CRISTINA DELLA COLETTA, FILBERTO CHIABRANDO, ALESSANDRA SPREAFICO
(Turin 1911 Project)
Turin 1911: Ephemeral Architectures & Digital Technologies
22 Apr 1 pm
LUCIA COLOMBARI (Univ. Oklahoma)
Contested Spaces: Italy's Nation-Building Through World Fairs
*NB: all times are ET
2025-2026
2023-2024
