Welcome to The Thinking Cap, the interactive blog of the PICT Student Ambassador Program (SAP). Run entirely by university students from around the world, the SAP is a platform for students to debate issues in higher education, place them in specific social and political contexts, and share them with the broader PICT community.
Review: Trusting the Viewer: Albrecht Dürer at the National Gallery
by Benjamin Devin (London, UK) THE National Gallery exhibition, Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist (November 2021-February 2022), offered a refreshingly sophisticated exploration of Albrecht
Impressions: Bucharest / Turin
by Emily Laurent-Monaghan (Bucharest) and Maureen Winter (Turin) “I would like to write a Philosophy of Failure, with the subtitle for the Exclusive Use of
The University in Uncertain Times: Toward a New Form of Life?
by Sanzhar Akayev (Moscow, Russia) Contemporary universities occupy an important yet peculiar place in our societies, serving as intersections of various intellectual, scientific, and economic
Dispatches: Performance in the Time of a Pandemic
Image: Carolee Schneemann, Up To And Including Her Limits (1973-76) by Jeanette Joy Harris (Texas, USA) COVID-19 has dramatically affected cultural life. Museums, galleries, theaters, and performance
Remembering Outrage: Reading Susan Sontag’s “AIDS and Its Metaphors” in the Age of COVID-19
by Nikolaas Deketelaere (Paris, France) We are more than a year into what the American poet Paul Monette (1945-1995) called “the calamity,” referring to the
What’s Left? On the Prohibition of Language: An Interview with Samir Gandesha
Image: Claire Fontaine, “They Hate Us For Our Freedom” (2008) by Emily Laurent-Monaghan This conversation with Samir Gandesha, public intellectual and professor of Humanities at