Tomáš Pospiszyl is a critic, curator, and art historian. He studied at Charles University in Prague and Bard College in New York. Since 2003, he has taught at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and, since 2012, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. The focus of Pospiszyl’s writings have ranged from the period of early modernism to mid-twentieth-century avant-garde and contemporary art. He has a special focus on art and popular culture during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Pospiszyl will present a lecture entitled “The Future That Never Arrived.”