The Arts Division welcome students, faculty, staff, and the general community to a salon-style gathering presenting the work of UC Santa Cruz’s History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC) Department.
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. The series is co-sponsored with the graduate programs in the History of Art & Visual Culture (HAVC) and the Film & Digital Media departments. Each […]
This talk explores how Indigenous analytic and ancestral technologies, rooted in technē as craft, knowledge, and skilled practice, inform contemporary digital forms such as Virtual Reality and AI. It traces how ancestral memory is transferred, adapted, and sustained across generations through decolonial and anti-colonial frameworks, while critically engaging both the generative possibilities and the structural […]
Yiman Wang lecture
Maggie Cao lecture
Find Your Path
Find Your Path
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 […]
Please join us for a conversation between Gina Athena Ulysse and Jennifer González, discussing Ulysse’s solo exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements. The internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena Ulysse is on view at the IAS as an inaugural Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. The site-specific installation, produced in community from things collected, found, purchased and donated, […]
“Media Practices Across Global Asias,” a graduate-student research cluster working across the History of Art and Visual Culture and Film and Digital Media departments, hosts their first symposium titled “Flow and Friction.” The day-long symposium is comprised of four panels with presenters from UC Santa Cruz and universities further afield in the U.S. and abroad. Three of the […]
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
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 […]
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
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