The Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) is an annual lecture series that brings cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad range of subjects related to visual and media culture. […]
In this public talk, Winnie Wong presents her latest book, The Many Names of Anonymity: Portraitists of the Canton Trade, which examines the tension between recognizing individuals as artists with rights of authorship and the limitations of the modern “artist” concept.
Yiman Wang lecture
Maggie Cao lecture
In this presentation, Jaleh Mansoor will draw upon recent Italian Marxist Feminist perspectives on ecology and discourses on the Anthropocene to question how Italian feminist analyses of invisible labor came to be elided with the question of a wider, post anthropocentric ecological horizon. Jaleh Mansoor is a writer and an associate professor of Art History […]
What counts as life in the midst of war, genocide, and planetary destruction? What is death and how do ideas around martyrdom and sacrifice contribute to our understanding of sacred […]