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2007-2008

September. 26, 2007: Marcia A. Kupfer, adjunct professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University, "The Body in the Map, the World Embodied: Reflections on the Medieval Figuration of Space."
This lecture is made possible by the University Lectures Committee, the Department of Art History, the Medieval Studies Program, and The History of Cartography Project.

October 18-19, 2007: "'If Niggers Could Fly': Glenn Ligon and Other Runaway Subjects", a public lecture by Huey Copeland, Assistant Professor of American Art, Department of Art History, Northwestern University and "The Blackness of Things", a workshop between graduate students and Professor Copeland.
Sponsored by the Art History Gradforum. Co-Sponsored by the Art History and Art Departments, Afro-American Studies and the Visual Culture Student Focus Group.

January 14-February 18, 2008: "The Scientist's Eye: Dialogues between Art & Science." An exhibition of artist and rare books from the Kohler Art Library and Special Collections (Memorial Library). Co-curated by PhD students Amy Noell and Beth Zinsli and presented in conjunction with "Visualizing Science." Kohler Art Library, 800 University Avenue. Gallery talk on Friday, February 8 at 3:30pm.
Co-sponsored by the Art History Department and Art History Gradforum.

April 9, 2008: "Visualizing our Stories: Museums, Decolonization, and Telling the Hard Truths," a public lecture by Amy Lonetree, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. 6:30pm Chazen Museum of Art, Room L150.
Sponsored by the American Indian Studies Program and the University Lectures Committee. Part of the Visual Culture Center's conference "Interdisciplinarity and the University Art Museum."

2006-2007

March 15-17, 2007 Early Modern Eyes Conference. Conference Schedule in PDF.

March 22, 2007 "Double Blind: Making a Case for Torture" Lecture by Diana Taylor.
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese with funding from NAVE Visiting Scholars Fund, Lecturer's Committee Fund,Roberto G. Sanchez Distinguished Lectureship Fund, and the Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle. Co-Sponsored Visual Culture Cluster, Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle, Department of Political Science

April 12, 2007 “The Geography of Observation: Questions about Place and Visibility in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire”
Lecture by Daniela Bleichmar
Sponsored by the Art History Grad Forum, Department of Art History, Latin American Caribbean and Iberian Studies (LACIS), Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

April 12, 2007 "Contemporary Haitian American Art: The Work of Rejin Leys" Artist's talk by Rejin Leys.
Sponsored by the Border and Transnational Studies Research Circle, with support from the Division of International Studies, International Institute and Global Studies Program, and co-sponsored by the African Diaspora and the Atlantic World Research Circle, Art History Department, Department of French and Italian, Latin America, Caribbean and Iberian Studies (LACIS).

April 20, 2007 Native-Invasive Symposium with Ute Ritschel.
Sponsored by the Department of Art and co-sponsored by the Chazen Museum of Art, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and the departments of Theatre & Drama, Anthropology, Art History, and Environment, Textiles & Design.

April 23-27, 2007 Practicing Jews: Art, Identity and Culture Conference.
Sponsored by the George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Conney Project on Jewish Arts

2005-2006

April 7-8 UW- Madison’s Theatre and Drama Graduate Student Organization annual conference, "Negotiating Boundaries: Print, Pedagogy, Performance". Including keynote lecture by Michael Lupu, "Where is Dramaturgy Located?" at 4 pm on April 7th.

Thursday, March 2, Martin Berger Lecture, "Architecture and the Politics of Race," Sponsored by Art History

Friday, March 3, Interdisciplinary workshop with Martin Berger, Sponsored by Art History

Monday, February 6, Nicholas Ridout Lecture, "The Post Democracy Show: Teatro All'Italiana," Sponsored by European Studies

Monday November 7, Anthropology Department Colloquium with Christopher Pinney, "The Political Economy of Gloss: 'India Shining' and the Common Man".

October 11, 4:30 pm, Gregory Pflugfelder lecture, "The Heirs of King Kong: Godzilla and the Globalization of the Monstrous Imaginary" Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and Monstrosity and Alterity, an Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities sponsored by the Center for the Humanities with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Thursday, September 29, Contemporary Literature Colloquium Lecture by Joseph Litvak, "Sycoanalysis: Schulberg, Kazan, and A Face in the Crowd."

2004-2005

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 Workshop with Professor Anthony Lee focusing on the reading: Christopher Pinney, "Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism," in Photography's Other Histories (Duke 2003).

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 lecture by Professor Anthony Lee, Department of Art History, Mount Holyoke College,
"When the Cobbling Began: Photography, Immigrants, Factories, and post- Civil War America"

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Reception for Professor Anthony Lee

Thursday, April 14, 2005 Tina Bastajian lecture, " Notions of Otherness: Between the Margins, the Frame, and the Translations"

Monday, December 6, 2004 4pm Monica Miller, Barnard College "Dandyism Across the Divides: Black Cosmopolitanism in Yinka Shonibare's Photographs" 6191 Helen C. White Hall (English)

Monday, December 6, 2004 12pm Roundtable graduate student discussion with Monica Miller entitled "New Work in African-American and African Diaspora Studies" 7101 Helen C. White Hall. Suggested readings on the CLC website.

Monday, November 15, 2004 James T. Siegel, Dept. of Anthropology, Cornell University "The Expedition to Samalanga: Sword and Camera in Atjeh (1901)" (Anthropology)

Tuesday, November 9, 2004 Valerie Traub lecture, "Mapping Embodiment in Early Modern Europe" and workshop, Nov 10 (Art History)

Wednesday, November 3, 2004 Stelarc, Artist lecture and demonstration. Sponsored by the Dept. of Medical History and Bioethics, and the University of Wisconsin Visiting Artists Program.

2003-2004

April 14-18 Verbal Performance and Visual Cultures African Literature Association 30th Anniversary Conference at the Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.. Email inquiries: ala2004@africa.wisc.edu.

April 13 Sue Coe

March 19-20 “Objects in/and Visual Culture,” Conference and Exhibition at the Pennsylvania State University

November 7-9, 2003: Reading: Ethics, Images, and Social Practice Grainger Hall, Rm 3070. See Links for details: Workshop Description, Workshop Schedule

2002-2003

Feburary 27- March 1, 2003 Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference: Information: Identity, Community, Performance and Visual Cultures