Events at: Frederic Lasserre, Room 104

5th Annual Art History Undergraduate Symposium

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 […]

Laura Brandon

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 […]

Rob Stone — Im/Perfect Bodies: Splash: Greg Louganis at the Threshold of Aural Architecture

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 […]

Alan Marcus — Im/Perfect Bodies: Bodies on Display: Gender Ambiguities and Riefenstahl’s Olympia

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 […]

ANSELM FRANKE: the Grammar of the Court

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. […]

NICOLAUS SCHAFHAUSEN: Curating in Front of a Local Backdrop

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 […]

6th Annual Art History Undergraduate Symposium

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 […]

Sontag’s Reversal on the Moral-Political Power of Art

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 […]

Artist Talk – Raymond Boisjoly

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 […]