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Upcoming Campus Events
Co-sponsored Event Archive
Visual Culture Event Archive
These events were organized, coordinated and administered by the Visual Culture Cluster.
See Co-sponsored Event Archive for other visual culture related events.
2007-2008
October 25-27: Visual Theory: Interruption, Interference, Intervention. Mini-conference with Norman Bryson and Kaja Silverman, including public lectures, workshops and a research colloquium. Part 1of New Directions in Visual Culture, a 2007-2008 Series of Public Conferences.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Art, Art History and English.
November 6-9: Islam, Religion and Visual Culture. Mini-conference with Finbarr Barry Flood, Mazyar Lotfalian, Hamid Naficy and Jessica Winegar, including a screening, public lectures, workshops and a research colloquium. Part 2 of New Directions in Visual Culture, a 2007-2008 Series of Public Conferences.
Co-sponsored by Art, Art History, the Center for South Asia, English, Global Studies, Languages and Cultures of Asia, the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions, Middle East Studies and Religious Studies.
February 7-8: Visualizing Science. Mini-conference with Michael Lynch, including a public lecture, workshop, research colloquium and exhibition. Part 3 of New Directions in Visual Culture, a 2007-2008 Series of Public Conferences.
Co-sponsored by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the Eye Research Institute, the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, and the Departments of Art, Art History, Medical History and Bioethics, and Sociology.
March 11: Public lecture by Camilo Trumper, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California-Berkeley. “ ‘A ganar la calle’: The Politics of Public Space and Public Art in Santiago, Chile, 1970-1973.” 6:30pm, Chazen Museum of Art, Room L150.
Presented by the Visual Culture Cluster Hire Search Committee. Co-Sponsored by Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies and the Department of History. Event poster (pdf file).
March 25: " 'Galen never inspected a woman's uterus, even in his dreams...': Gendering the Anatomical Body in the Renaissance," a public lecture by Lyle Massey (Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University). 6:30pm, Chazen Museum of Art, Room L150.
Sponsored by the Visual Culture Cluster Hire Search Committee. Co-sponsored by Women's and Gender Studies and the Department of Art History. Event poster (pdf file).
March 27: " 'Seeing Like a Rover': Image Processing on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission," a public lecture by Janet Vertesi (Ph.D. Candidate, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University). 6:30pm in the Chazen Museum of Art, Room L140.
Sponsored by the Visual Culture Cluster Hire Search Committee. Co-sponsored by the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies and the Department of the History of Science. Event poster (pdf file).
April 1: "The Geisha's Forbidden Comicbook: Gender, Advertising, and the Visual-Verbal Imagination in Early Modern Japan," a public lecture by Adam Kern (Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University). 6:30pm in the Chazen Museum of Art, Room L150.
Sponsored by the Visual Culture Cluster Hire Search Committee. Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Event poster (pdf file).
April 9-11: Interdisciplinarity and the University Art Museum. Mini-conference with Amy Lonetree and Alan Shestack. Part 4 of New Directions in Visual Culture, a 2007-2008 Series of Public Conferences.
Co-sponsored by the by the American Indian Studies Program, the Center for the Humanities, the Ho-Chunk Nation, the University Lectures Committee, and the Departments of Art, Art History, and Theatre & Drama.
2006-2007
October 19-22 Trans Conference with keynote speakers Sue Golding, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Olu Oguibe, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, a performance by Tim Miller screening with Judith Helfand of her film Blue Vinyl, and exhibitions at Ironworks, MMoCA, Design Gallery, and the 7th Floor and 734 Galleries. Pre-conference events included lectures by Ute Ritschel, Erica Rand, and Tim Miller.
2005-2006
April 21 Workshop with David Hickey, free-lance writer of fiction and cultural criticism, and Schaeffer Professor of Modern Letters at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
April 17-19 M. Madhava Prasad, Professor of Film and Cultural Studies in the Centre for European Studies, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India.
Funding for Dr. Prasad's visit is provided by the Anonymous Fund. Co-Sponsors include the Center for South Asia, Dance Department, Jewish Studies, Women's Studies Consortium, and the Women's Studies Research Center.
M. Madhava Prasad Lecture, Tuesday April 18 at 5pm in Chazen L140, "Contemporary Indian Cinema and the Figure of the Culturally Backward Spectator."
M. Madhava Prasad Workshop, Wednesday, April 19 fom 9-11am, "Kings of Democracy?: Understanding Indian Cinema's Political Agency."
February 27-29 José Esteban Muñoz, chair of the department of Performance Studies at New York University ’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Funding for Dr. Munoz's visit is provided by the Anonymous Fund. Co-Sponsors include the Center for South Asia, Dance Department, Jewish Studies, Women's Studies Consortium, and the Women's Studies Research Center.
José Esteban Muñoz Lecture, Monday February 27 at 5pm in Chazen L140 "The Vulnerability Artist: Latina Performativity and Affect"
José Esteban Muñoz, Workshop: Tuesday February 26 from 3-5pm "Cruising Utopia"
February 1-3 Marita Sturken, Associate Professor of Culture and Communication at New York University
Funding for Dr. Sturken's visit is provided by the Anonymous Fund. Co-Sponsors include the Center for South Asia, Dance Department, Jewish Studies, Women's Studies Consortium, and the Women's Studies Research Center.
Marita Sturken Lecture, Thursday, February 2 at 5pm in Chazen L140, "Teddy Bears, Snow Globes, and the Kitschification of America"
Marita Sturken Workshop, Friday, February 3 9-11am, "Architectures of Grief and the Aesthetics of Absence."
October 19-21, Ella Shohat, Professor of Cultural Studies, Art and Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University.
Wednesday, October 19 Screening Forget Baghdad and Presentation, " discussion with Ella Shohat,"Taboo Memories: Diasporic Iraqi Voices."
Funding for Dr. Shohat's visit is provided by the Anonymous Fund. Co-Sponsors include the Center for South Asia, Dance Department, Jewish Studies, Women's Studies Consortium, and the Women's Studies Research Center.
Ella Shohat Lecture, Thursday, October 20 at 5:30pm in L140 Chazen, "Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaptation."
Ella Shohat Workshop, Friday, October 21 from 9-11am, "The Culture Wars in Translation."
November 7-9 Christopher Pinney, Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College, London.
Funding for Dr. Pinney's visit is provided by the Anonymous Fund. Co-Sponsors include the Center for South Asia, Dance Department, Jewish Studies, Women's Studies Consortium, and the Women's Studies Research Center.
Christopher Pinney Lecture, Tuesday November 8, 5 PM, Chazen L140 "The Coming of Photography in India"
Christopher Pinney Workshop, Wednesday November 9, 1-3pm, "The Social Life of Images and 'Wavy Meaning'"
2004-2005
Monday, September 13 Irit Rogoff Lecture "Of Fear, Of Contact, Of Entanglement"
Tuesday, September 14 Irit Rogoff Workshop "Looking Away-Participating Singularities"
Funding for Dr. Rogoff's visit is provided by the Anonymous Fund. Co-Sponsors include Art History, Curriculum & Instruction, Dance, French & Italian, History, Spanish & Portuguese, Border & Transcultural Studies, Latin American, Carribean and Iberian Studies, LGBT Studies, and Women's Studies.
October 14 Worskhop with Michael Taussig.
Friday, February 11 Places of Memory Colloquium
Friday, February 11 Book Party for Jill Casid's new book, "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"
Wednesday, February 23, Visual Culture Workshop with Rebecca Solnit
Friday, February 25, Visual Culture Workshop on Visconti's "Il Lavoro" with Alexander Duttman, Professor of Philosophy and Visual Cultures, Goldsmith's College, London
Wednesday, March 30, Visual Culture Workshop with Philip Ball.
Monday, April 4 Screening of "Proteus," a film by Jack Lewis and John Greyson followed by Q&A with John Greyson.
Tuesday, April 5 John Greyson Lecture "THE QUEEN'S SORE THROAT"
Wednesday, April 6 John Greyson Workshop "AGIT-PROP FOR A NEW MILLENIUM"
Funding for John Greyson's visit is provided by the Anonymous Fund. Co-Sponsors include Art History, Curriculum and Instruction, Dance, French and Italian, History, Spanish and Portuguese, Border and Transcultural Studies, Latin American, Carribean and Iberian Studies, LGBT Studies,and Women's Studies.
2003-2004
Friday, Sept. 26, 2003: Meet New Visual Culture Faculty Member, Preeti Chopra.
Friday, October 24: Visual Culture Faculty Research Forum. Presentations by Mary Beltran (Communication Arts), Haodong Cai (Psychology), Linda Essig (Theatre and Drama), Lisa Gralnick (Art), Hong Jiang (Geography), Caroline Levine (English), Mark Nelson (Environment, Textiles, and Design), Tejumola Olaniyan (African Languages and Literature), and Kurt Squire (Curriculum and Instruction).
Wednesday, February 4 Interfaces: a Visual Culture Faculty Colloquium featuring talks by Julian Lombardi, Lisa Nakamura, and Kurt Squire.
Monday, February 9 Judith Halberstam Graduate Seminar Visit for Border & Transcultural Studies
Tuesday, February 10 Judith Halberstam Workshop covering the introduction and first chapter of her forthcoming book, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
co-sponsored by Border Studies, LGBT and Women’s Studies
Wednesday, February 11 Judith Halberstam Lecture “Ceremonies of Our Present: Photography and Subcultural Lives.”
co-sponsored by Art History
Friday, February 13 Judith Halberstam Undergraduate Class Visit
Friday, February 13 Judith Halberstam LGBT event
Funding for Dr. Halberstam's visit is provided by the Anonymous Fund. Co-Sponsors include Art History, Curriculum & Instruction, Dance, French & Italian, History,
Spanish & Portuguese, Border & Transcultural Studies, Latin American, Carribean and Iberian Studies, LGBT Studies, and Women's Studies.
March 30 Film Screening of Tsai Ming-liang's 'The River'
March 31 Rey Chow Workshop on "The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism" 2:00pm.
March 31 Rey Chow Lecture "A Pain in the Neck," An Episode of 'Incest,' and other Enigmas of an Allegorical Cinema: Tsai Ming-liang's 'The River.'"
Funding for Dr. Chow's visit is provided by the Anonymous Fund. Co-Sponsors include Art History, Curriculum & Instruction, Dance, French & Italian, History,
Spanish & Portuguese, Border & Transcultural Studies, Latin American, Carribean and Iberian Studies, LGBT Studies, and Women's Studies.
April 14-18 Verbal Performance and Visual Cultures African Literature Association 30th Anniversary Conference at the Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
April 21 Sex a Visual Culture Faculty Colloquium featuring talks byJill Casid, Anne McClintock,and Michael Peterson
2002-2003
Friday, Nov. 8, 2002:, Get to Know New Visual Culture Faculty.
Lunch with Jill Casid and Lisa Nakamura.
Friday, November 22, 2002: Faculty Research Forum
Terry Boyd, Ksenija Bilbija, Keith Cohen, Nietzchka Keene, Theresa Kelley, Cavalliere Ketchum, Guido Podesta, Cherene Sherrard, Ben Singer, and Lee Palmer Wandel.
February 27- March 1, 2003
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference
(In)formation: Identity, Community,Performance and Visual Cultures
March 31, 2003 :Lecture by Preeti Chopra
Images of a Fragmented City: Colonial and Postcolonial Bombay
April 7: Lecture by Jon McKenzie
Look and Feel: The Visuality of Affective Networks
April 14: Lecture by John Paul Ricco
Name No One Man: Rauschenberg's Erased De Kooning Drawing
2001-2002
October 26, 2001: Fall Faculty Forum
Presentations on work-in-progress by David Bordwell, Sonya Clark, Henry Drewal, Jo Ellen Fair, Aristotle Georgiades & Gail Simpson, Gregg Mitman, James Moy, David Woodward.
February 28, 2002: Lecture by Lisa Cartwright
Pictures of Waiting Children: The Visibility of Disability in Adoption Medicine
March 4, 2002: Lecture by Jan Estep
Transcendental Twaddle: Art and Saying Wittgenstein
March 7, 2002: Lecture by Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
Theatres of Self and Nation: Monticello and Peale's Museum
March 11, 2002: Lecture by John Paul Ricco
The Art of the Consummate Cruise
March 14, 2002: Lecture by Jill Casid
Sympathetic Terror: Technologies of Projection, Techniques of Empire
March 18, 2002: Lecture by Brian Goldfarb
Sense Ability: Fragments on Media Pedagogy, Digital Prosthetics, and Assistive Technology
March 21, 2002: Lecture by Lisa Nakamura
Menu-Driven Identities: Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction
April 1, 2002: Lecture by Malcolm Turvey
"Anti-ocularcentrism" and Modernism
April 3, 2002: Lecture by Laura Kuo
Modalities of Advertising: Transnational Feminism and Postmodern Art Activism
2000-2001
December 1, 2000: First Faculty Research Forum
Presentations on work-in-progress by Noel Carroll, Laurie Beth Clark, Susan Cook, Gail L. Geiger, Kenneth George, Theresa Kelley, Shanti Kumar, James Leary, Jean Lee, Douglas Rosenberg, Ellen Sapega, Janet Silbernagel, Freida High Tesfagiorgis, and Joseph Varga.
February 2, 2001: Second Faculty Forum
Presentations on work-in-progress by Sally Banes, Susan D. Bernstein, Beverly Gordon, Michelle Grabner, Nietzchka Keene, Ann Smart Martin, Lynn Nyhart, Patrick Rumble, Jane Schulenberg, and R. Anderson Sutton
February 15, 2001: What is Visual Culture?
Discussion on visuality led by Noel Carroll and Laurie Beth Clark
February 26, 2001: Lecture by Nicholas Mirzoeff
Intervisuality: Working Out Visual Culture in the Era of Global Capital
March 5, 2001: Lecture by Erica Rand
Breeders in a Snow Globe: Looking for Sex at Ellis Island
March 19, 2001: Ping Chong & Pauline Oliveros
Conversation hosted by Michael Peterson
April 4, 2001: What isn't Visual Culture?
Discussion on the "other" senses led by Sally Banes and Susan Cook.
April 12, 2001: Seminar with W.J.T. Mitchell and Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis; discussion of Mitchell essays, "What is Visual Culture?" and "What do pictures really want?"
April 12, 2001: Lecture by W.J.T Mitchell
The Work of Art in the Age of Biocybernetic Reproduction
Mitchell is a Professor at the University of Chicago, editor of Critical Inquiry, and author/editor of ten books, including Picture Theory and The Last Dinosaur Book.
April 26, 2001: Lecture by Adrian Heathfield
On Coolness.
May 4, 2001: Third Faculty Forum
Presentations on work-in-progress by Kelley Conway, Nicole Huang, Mary Layoun, Michael Peterson, Gene Phillips, Shiela Reaves, Mariama Ross, Diane Sheehan.
May 12, 2001: Visual Culture Party
A chance to socialize informally at the end of the semester.
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