MIXED TASTE

Mixed Taste: Tag Team Lectures on Unrelated Topics is a lecture series that runs every summer. The rules are simple: The first speaker speaks for a half-hour, then the next speaker speaks on a completely unrelated topic for a half-hour, and then there is question and answer on both at the same time. During the first part of the program, speakers are not allowed to make connections between topics, during the question and answer, anything can happen.
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PAST MIXED TASTE TOPICS
2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
2008
June 5 - Silent Films & Counterfeit Currency
June 12 - Soda Pop & Extreme Death Rituals of Borneo
June 19 - Maya Astronomy & Stanley Kubrick
June 26 - Sun Ra & Southern Family Restaurants
July 3 - Tamales & Literary Memoirs
July 10 - Wittgenstein & Hula Dancing
July 17 - Motown & Gonzo Journalism
July 24 - Dia de los Muertos & Gourmet Sauces
July 31 - Outsider Art & A Superconducting Proton Collider
August 7 - Craft Beer & Renaissance Polyphony
August 14 - Roller Derby & Verismo Opera
August 21 - Cover Songs & Giant Wombats

2007
June 7 - Swiss Typography & TV Theme Songs
June 14 - Kurt Cobain & Solar Eclipses
June 21 - Practical Democracy & Deadly Jellyfish
June 28 - Carnivorous Plants & Color-Field Painting
July 5 - Earth Art & Goat Cheese
July 12 - Capoeira & Le Corbusier
July 19 - Chinese Opera & Alfred Hitchcock
July 26 - Walt Whitman & Whole Hog Cooking
Aug 2 - Tequila & Dark Energy in the Universe
Aug 9 - Soul Food & Existentialism
Aug 16 - Prairie Dogs & Gertrude Stein
Aug 23 - Japanese Anime & Zora Neale Hurston
Aug 30 - Marxism & Kittens, Kittens, Kittens

2006
June 15 - Belgian Chocolate & One Woman Opera
June 22 - Mt. Rushmore & European Witchcraft
June 29 - Wonder Cabinets & American Whiskey
July 6 - Women Rockers & Martin Scorsese
July 13 - USDA Meat Grading & Apparitions of the Virgin Mary
July 20 - Mies van der Rohe & Brazilian Music
July 27 - Cowboy Yodeling & Michel Foucault
Aug 3 - Dada & Monster Movies
Aug 10 - Chicano Rights Movement & The History of Pornography
Aug 17 - Conceptual Art & The Family Vacation

2005
June 2 - Cold Saki & African Art
June 9 - Wild Birds & New Wave French Cinema
June 16 - Piano Miniatures & Hearty Shrubs
June 23 - Susan Sontag & Paint By Numbers
June 30 - Tattoo Art & Ibsen’s Medeas
July 7 - Meat Sausage & T.S. Eliot
July 14 - Mexican Muralists & Woody After Mia
July 21 - Modern Origami & Native American Poetry
July 28 - Clyfford Still & Cajun Cusine
Aug 4 - Jacques Derrida & New African Music
Aug 11 - Feminist Art & Burlesque Theater
Aug 18 - Contemporary Opera & Murder Ballads
Aug 25 - Punk Rock & Zen Buddhism
Sept 1 - Contemporary Photography & Exotic Drums
2004
May 20 - Surreal Cinema & Brunello Wine
May 27 - Infused Olive Oil & John Coltrane
June 3 - Harlem Renaissance & Domestic Artesian Cheese
June 10 - St Augustine & The Marx Brothers
June 17 - Grateful Dead & Fresh Cut Flower Arranging
June 24 - Barbecue & Avant Garde Animated Film
July 1 - Dizzy Gillespie & Single Malt Scotch
July 8 - Concrete & Renaissance Prints
July 15 - Bananas Foster & Emily Dickinson
July 22 - Slave Narratives & Medieval Coins
July 29 - Pinot Noir & Miles Davis
Aug 5 - Video Art & Migratory Birds
Aug 12 - Andy Warhol & Artificial Lighting
Aug 19 - Flower Arranging & The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt
Aug 26 -Raw Milk Cheese & Minimalist Art
Sept 2 - Urban Trees & Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas
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