Join us November 12 and 13 for two events with visiting scholar Ara H. Merjian, Professor of Italian Studies and Affiliated Faculty, Institute of Fine Arts & Department of Art History, New York University.
On Wednesday, November 12, Dr. Merjian will present “A Collective of One: Umberto Boccioni’s I/We and Photography before Futurism” at 5:30pm in WJB G40.
On Thursday, November 13, Dr. Merjian will host a discussion with Art History Associate Professor Tenley Bick of her new book, Michelangelo Pistoletto: Figuration and Cultural Politics (Yale University Press, 2025). The conversation begins at 4:30pm in WJB G40.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Ara H. Merjian is Professor in the department of Italian Studies at NYU, where he is an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and Comparative Literature. He is the author and editor of several books, including Gramsci’s Circle of Humanity and Armenia (2016); Surrealism and Anti-Fascism (2024); and Beat, Black, Queer: Pasolini’s Other America, out with Verso in 2026.Other books include Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris (Yale University Press, 2014), Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, Neo-Capitalism (University of Chicago Press, 2020), and Futurism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2025). Before arriving at NYU he taught at Harvard, Stanford, and the San Quentin State Penitentiary College Education Program. His book from Yale University Press, Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde recently won the 2025 Robert Motherwell Book Award and the 2025 Scaglione Prize in Italian Studies from the MLA.
