2009 marks the 5th anniversary of the UBC Art History Undergraduate Symposium. This year’s Symposium will feature presentations from seven current undergraduate students studying Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. All student papers offer diverse methods of engaging with visual culture and are representative of the innovative nature of […]
Double Exposure: Canada, War, Art, and Photography Laura Brandon is Historian, Art and War at the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa. She is the author of Art & War and Art or Memorial? The Forgotten History of Canada’s War Art. Presented with the financial support of the Program in Canadian Studies, Vancouver Art Gallery, and ARTH […]
Im/Perfect Bodies: Part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series Dr. Rob Stone is Senior Research Fellow in the Visual Culture Research Group at Middlesex University. He is also closely attached to the Research Architecture, Visual Cultures and Visual Arts Departments at Goldsmiths College. His critical interests are in sound, architecture, fine art and the creative-theoretical […]
All are welcome Faye Ginsburg is the David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University where she is also the Director of the Center for Media, Culture and History and co-Director of the NYU Council for the Study of Disability. An author, activist and occasional filmmaker, she has published four books, and is […]
All are welcome Dr. Alan Marcus is Head of the Film and Visual Culture Department at King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He interviewed the film director Leni Riefenstahl shortly before she died, and has written on representations of the body in journals such as Visual Anthropology. He has published on themes associated with filmic […]
CANCELLED – Due to unforeseen circumstances, the lecture by Anselm Franke on Monday, November 23, 2009 has been cancelled. The University of British Columbia’s Critical and Curatorial Studies Program and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery present The Grammar of the Court, a talk by Anselm Franke as part of the Curatorial Lecture Series. […]
Date: November 26, 2009 Time: 6:30 PM Location: Lassere Building, Room 104, 6333 Memorial Road CANCELLED The University of British Columbia’s Critical and Curatorial Studies Program in conjunction with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery; the Walter Phillips Gallery; Visual Arts at The Banff Centre; and the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the California […]
Date: March 05, 2010 Time: 4:30 PM Location: Lassere Building, Room 104, 6333 Memorial Road 4:30pm – 7pm. Reception to follow. The UBC Art History Undergraduate Symposium provides a unique opportunity to experience a major part of work in the field and enjoy the company of professors outside of class time. Six students will present […]
Professor Michael Kelly, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Professor Michael Kelly Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford UP) Department of Philosophy University of North Carolina, Charlotte “How can works of art can have any positive moral-political effect on viewers today, given the challenges to aesthetic autonomy (or aesthetics itself) over the last few […]
Raymond Boisjoly is an Aboriginal artist from Chilliwack whose work engages issues of Aboriginality, language as a cultural practice, and the experiential aspects of materiality. Boisjoly presented The Writing Lesson at Republic Gallery (Vancouver, BC), The Ever-Changing Light at Access Gallery (Vancouver, BC), The Spirit of Inconstancy at Lawrimore Project (Seattle, WA), and has participated […]