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2008-2009

September 23, 2008: "Contemporary Benin Brasscasting:A Study in Continuity and Change," a public lecture by Dr. Adepeju Layiwola, Faculty in the Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos, Nigeria. 7:00pm, Chazen Museum of Art, Room L140.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies, African Studies Program, African Diaspora and the Atlantic World Research Circle, the Department of Art History, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Visual Culture Center.

November 3 - January 2, 2008: Impermanent Archive: Photography and the Technologies of Empire and Race, an exhibition co-curated by Marcela Guerrero and Amy Powell. Steenbock Gallery at the Wisconsin Academy, 1922 University Avenue. Co-sponsored by the Center for Photography at Madison and the Visual Culture Center. How does the body function like a camera? How does the eye work like an archive? Impermanent Archive brings together photographic objects whose images, fixed with chemicals on paper, question the ways that photographs also fix group identity and ethnicity. As sites of power plays between subject and object, these works unhinge and unsettle the archive’s claims to historical and psychological permanence, revealing the instability of the image and the changing nature of time. Co-sponsored by the Visual Culture Center and the Center for Photography in Madison. 

November 4 - December 2, 2008: Travel, Typology, Technology: Photography and the (Re)Production of Empire, an exhibition co-curated by Heather Sonntag and Beth Zinsli. Kohler Art Library. This exhibition of historical photographic objects developed around a question central to our individual research: what was the role of photography in the creation and maintenance of empire? We present nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs from the Belgian Congo and British colonies in the Middle East as case studies for the ways in which photography galvanized the (re)production of empire through visual images. In addition, the juxtaposition of photographs from diverse global colonial projects, including the Philippines, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, expose photography as a key technology for disseminating ideologies about race and empire around the world during the colonial period.

November 4 - December 2, 2008: (Un)Binding Empire: French & Russian Imperial Albums, an exhibition curated by Heather Sonntag. Special Collections, 9th floor, Memorial Library. This exhibition compares two visual projects from Napoleonic France and Tsarist Russia. Elaborate and encyclopedic, the Description of Egypt and the Turkestan Album demonstrate the scientific scope and ambitious scale of the modern colonial survey. Co-sponsored by the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia.  

February 13-19, 2009: STEREOPSIS, 734 Gallery (734 University Avenue)
Stereopsis is a process of perception. Two distinct and dis/located eyes, each with a different view of the world, come together to form the sensation of spatial depth. Stereopsis takes this as a point of departure, presenting a series of works in open-ended dialogue that ask us to rethink the relation between perception and the experience of knowledge. Curated by Willow Hagge, MFA Candidate, Department of Art, and Matthew F. Rarey, PhD Student, Department of Art History. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with Perception, Part 3 of "Parallax: Changing Perspectives in Visual Culture."

March 5, 2009: “Boots and Hands: Photojournalism and Democratic Public Culture,” public lecture by Professor John Lucaites, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University. 4:30-6:00 PM, 4070 Vilas Hall.

March 6, 2009: "Rhetorical Analysis of Visual Culture," a workshop with John Lucaites, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University. Noon-1:30pm, Ewbank Room, 6th floor, Vilas Hall. To register for the workshop and gain access to the required readings, email Professor Susan Zaeske at szaeske@wisc.edu.

April 2, 2009: "Goya and Money," a public lecture by Louis Fernandez-Cifuentes (Professor, Harvard University). 3:15pm, 1820 Van Hise Hall. In the context of 18th century economics and the growth of the bourgeoisie, Goya’s numerous letters, with their compulsive focus on money and monetary transactions, shed a different light on the condition of the artist: Goya turns out to be, not only the genius of tormented, nightmarish visions, but also (perhaps, primarily) an upward mobile bourgeois, forever in anxious pursuit of the conventional but elusive and unstable forms of happiness that appealed to the new upper classes of his time.
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguest, the Center for European Studies, and the Visual Culture Center. Funding courtesy of the Anonymous Fund and the University Lectures Committee.

April 17, 2009: "Jane Austen and Greenhouse Romanticism," a public lecture by Deidre Lynch, Chancellor Jackman Professor and Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. 5:00pm, Pyle Center.
Sponsored by the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Visiting Scholars Fund

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.

March 3-June 1, 2008: "Sighting Knowledge: Photography in the Lab, the Museum and the Archive"
Guest curators Amy Noell and Beth Zinsli (PhD Students, Department of Art History) curated this exhibition that highlights relationships between scientific, artistic, and archival uses of photography in order to question the boundaries between these categories of inquiry and knowledge. Chazen Museum of Art, niche case 2, between Galleries II and III.
Click here to listen to WPR's audio interview with Jill Casid (Director, Visual Culture Center) and exhibit curators Amy Noell and Beth Zinsli.

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. A keynote lecture in Part 4 of New Directions in Visual Culture, a 2007-2008 Series of Public Conferences.
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."

On view through May 4, 2008: "Bluethrough," a temporary installation by Chele Issac (MFA Candidate, Department of Art), situated on the third level plaza of the Humanities building – the nexus of the Mosse Humanities Building and the Chazen Art Museum and (via the footbridge) University Theatre and Vilas Communication Hall. The site-specific work is an investigation of both the social expectation and institutional determination of architectural space, with goals of fostering generative conversation about the possibilities for art practice, exhibition, alternative programming and exploration within 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