Tuesday, Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m.
Jean Campbell, Professor of Art History at Emory University, speaks about “Pisanello’s Parerga: Painting and the Invention of Knowledge in the Fifteenth Century” at the Clark Art Institute, 225 South Street, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Free.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 6 p.m.
Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell and photographer Peter Vanderwarker speak at the Boston Public Library central branch’s Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston St., Boston. Free.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m.
Yale Law School professor Dan M. Kahan speaks about “Cultural Pollution in the Science Communication Environment” at Brown University’s Martinos Auditorium in the Granoff Center, 154 Angell St., Providence.
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 6 p.m.
Artists Syd Carpenter , Annabeth Rosen, and Paul Swedbeck and Museum of Fine Arts curator Emily Zilber speak at MassArt’s Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Ave., Boston. Free.
Thursday, Nov. 15, 12:30 p.m.
Trenton Doyle Hancock speaks at the Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. Free.
Thursday, Nov. 15, 6 p.m.
The Brown RISD Art Science Evening Rendezvous (BRASER) presents talks on interdisciplinary art, science and technology projects by artists, scientists, inventors, and scholars at Brown University’s Martinos Auditorium in the Granoff Center, 154 Angell St., Providence. Speakers include Roger Hanlon, Ben Lillie and Rebecca Kamen.
Thursday, Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.
MIT Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno discusses “the speculative context and experimental materials of his ‘Cloud Cities’” with MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty Nader Tehrani and Antón García-Abril at MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, room 10-250,Cambridge, Massachusetts. Free.
Thursday, Nov. 15, 7 p.m.
The Boston Center for the Arts hosts “The Future Looks Like This: An evening of rational and irrational charette and conversation,” a chance for participants to “Draw the landscape of the future as you imagine it using the science fiction strategy of world building” at the Mills Gallery, 539 Tremont St., Boston. Free.
Saturday, Nov. 17, 11 a.m.
David Driskell hosts a screening of Richard Kane’s 33-minute documentary “David Driskell: In Search of the Creative Truth” and answers questions afterward at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Squre, Portland, Maine.
Tuesday, Nov. 20, 12:30 p.m.
Scoli Acosta speaks at the Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. Free.
Tuesday, Nov. 20, 6 p.m.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and U.S. Judge for the District of Massachusetts Douglas Woodlock speak about the architecture of courthouses at the Boston Public Library central branch’s Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston St., Boston. Free.
