Public Lecture: “Walking with the Enemy”
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Thursday, Nov 5, 2026 6pm - 8pm
Location
The University of Akron Myers School of Art
150 E Exchange St
Details
Presentation by Associate Professor of Art History Gedeminas Gasparaviçus, Ph.D, and co-editor Assistant Professor Tom Williams, art history at Belmont university, Nashville, TN regarding this new book:
Walking with the Enemy: The Art of Subversive Mimicry in the Post-Truth Era
Edited by Gediminas Gasparavičius, Maia Toteva, and Tom Williams Manchester University Press, 2026
Publication date: August 25, 2026
“Walking with the Enemy: The Art of Subversive Mimicry in the Post-Truth Era”
is about artists and activists who have embraced mimicry as a subversive tactic and responded to ideologies by imitating their outward forms. Chapters discuss mimicry in reference to the post-truth era, the neoliberal consensus, the politics of race and gender, online subcultures, the rise of the new right, and other topics.
Free
