Sylvia Lavin discusses “Architecture not in Evidence”. Lavin is a head of the Ph.D. in Architecture program and Professor of Architectural History and Theory at UCLA. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Midcentury Inversions”.

Joshua Shannon discusses “The Matter of the Mid-Century Desert”. Shannon is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History & Theory at the University of Maryland and The Potomac Center for the Study of Modernity. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Desert Avant-Garde”.

James Nisbet discusses “Virtual Earthworks”. Nisbet is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Desert Avant-Garde”.

Yael Lipschutz discusses “A NeoHooDoo Western: Noah Purifoy, Spirit Flash, Art, and the Desert”. Lipschutz is an independent curator. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Outsider Spaces”.

Charlie Hailey discusses “Concrete on Sand: Casting Freedom between Necessity and Control in Slab City’s Desert Camp”. Hailey is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Florida. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Outsider Spaces”.

Jame Nisbet delivers the losing remarks to the “The Fabricated American Desert: Modern & Anti-Modern”, held at The Huntington on April 15–16, 2016. Nisbet is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Steve Hindle welcomes participants and attendees to the “The Fabricated American Desert: Modern & Anti-Modern”, held at The Huntington on April 15–16, 2016. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington.

Lyle Massey delivers the opening remarks to the “The Fabricated American Desert: Modern & Anti-Modern”, held at The Huntington on April 15–16, 2016. Massey is Professor of Art History at University of California, Irvine.

Emily Eliza Scott discusses “Spectres of Aridity: Desertification in California and Beyond”. Scott Doctor of Philosophy, Art History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. This talk is included in the session titled, ”Desiccated Landscapes”.

Karen Pinkus discusses “The Anthropocene Desert between Geology and Geography”. Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Desiccated Landscapes”.

Albert Narath discusses “Desert Technologies: Imagining Indigenous Design through the Energy Crisis”. Narath is Professor of Art History and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Indigenous Structures”.

Ed Dimendberg discusses “Explosive Modernism: The Southwest Architecture of Hiram Hudson Benedict”. Dimendberg is Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Midcentury Inversions”.

Stefanie Sobelle discusses “That Vast Something”. Sobelle is Professor of English at Gettysburg College. This talk is included in the session titled, ”Militarization and the Desert Imaginary”.