Brown-bag with Andrew Hennlich, Center for Visual Cultures Honorary Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
12:00 noon to 2:00 pm
Room 460 Memorial Library (Memorial Commons)

Title: The Dream Deferred: Reading South Africa’s Xenophobia Through William Kentridge’s The Nose.

Brown-bag with Brown-bag with Steven C. Ridgely, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
12:00 noon to 2:00 pm
Room 460 Memorial Library (Memorial Commons)

Title: "Auditizing the Image, Temporalizing Space, Yuasa Jōji"

Dr. Alfred Sommer, Dean Emeritus, Bloomberg School of Public Health and Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, & International Health at The Wilmer Eye Institute and The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Lecture: “Visions of Health and Vision”
Monday, April 23, 2012
4:00 pm
Room 1120, Biochemistry Building
420 Henry Mall

Abstract: Health and vision are outcomes of biologic and environmental factors, and they ways in which we interact with them. The choices we make, and the circumstances in which we live, are potent drivers of health, vision and disease.

Dr. Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University

Sunday, April 22, 6 PM
Book Signing and Reception
hosted by Rainbow Bookstore
426 West Gilman Street

Monday, April 23, 6 - 8 PM
Workshop on Occupy 2012
hosted by the Aesthetic Relations Mellon Workshop of the Center for Humanities
Registration and Reading Required. Contact jsalyer@wisc.edu

Tuesday, April 24, 11 AM - 1 PM
Workshop on The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality
hosted by the Center for Visual Cultures

Dr. Jaqueline Berndt, Professor of Art and Media Studies at Kyoto Seika University, JAPAN

Lecture & Workshop Title:

“Revisiting 'Barefoot Gen of Hiroshima': Japanese Manga (Comics) Studies in the Wake of the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdowns of 3-11”

Lecture
Friday, April 27, 2012
5:00 pm
Room L140, Elvehjem Building, Chazen Museum of Art

Graduate Student Workshop
Saturday, April 28, 2012
10:00 am to 12:00 noon (box lunch provided)
Room L170, Elvehjem Building, Chazen Museum of Art

Dr. Jaqueline Berndt, Professor of Art and Media Studies at Kyoto Seika University, JAPAN

Lecture & Workshop Title:

“Revisiting 'Barefoot Gen of Hiroshima': Japanese Manga (Comics) Studies in the Wake of the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdowns of 3-11”

Lecture
Friday, April 27, 2012
5:00 pm
Room L140, Elvehjem Building, Chazen Museum of Art

Graduate Student Workshop
Saturday, April 28, 2012
10:00 am to 12:00 noon (box lunch provided)
Room L170, Elvehjem Building, Chazen Museum of Art