Events at: Frederic Lasserre, Room 102

Julian Stallabrass — Photographic Meaning in the Vietnam War

TERROR – THE SERIES Julian Stallabrass is Reader at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He lectures in modern and contemporary art, including postwar British art, the history of photography and new media art. Stallabrass is the author of Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture (Verso, 1996), High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s(Verso, 1999), […]

Ruth Phillips: “Aboriginal Art between 1884 and 1960: The Art that was not Supposed to Be”

Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture at Carleton University, Former Director of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC This paper will explore the production of Aboriginal art during one of the darkest periods of Aboriginal history. It will discuss the ways in which Aboriginal artists found spaces in which to continue deeply rooted visual traditions […]

Shentian Zheng — JCI Lecture

Part of the Joan Carlisle Irving Lecture Series 2007; Being Pacific – Place, Space and Identity. Shengtian Zheng is an artist, curator, and Chinese art specialist, is a managing editor of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. He was a curator for the Shanghai Biennale in 2004, and co-editor of Shanghai Modern: 1919-1945 in 2005. […]

Ki-Ke-In (Ron Hamilton) — JCI Graduate Seminar

Part of the Joan Carlisle Irving Lecture Series 2007Being Pacific – Place, Space and Identity. KI-KE-IN (Ron Hamilton) is a Nuu-Chah-Nulth creator, storyteller, poet, and scholar, who engages in public debates, exhibitions, and publications concerning a trans-Pacific history for the cultures of the Northwest Coast and their “art.”, Nov 20 -21 2007. Public Lecture…………………..Tuesday November […]

Althea Thauberger

In conjunction with Exponential Future, currently on view at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, artist Althea Thauberger will discuss and invite questions about the works included in the exhibition—a video installation called Zivildienst ≠ Kunstprojekt (Social Service ≠ Art Project) and the large scale photo mural The Art of Seeing Without Being Seen, […]

27th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium – “Obsolete Concepts: Formative Lingerings” – Day 1

… bringing students from art history and the visual arts together with students in other humanities departments to foster cross-disciplinary discussion and debate. Obsolete Concepts: Formative Lingerings is a 2-day symposium held on 28-29 March 2008 and hosted by the graduate students of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University […]

27th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium – “Obsolete Concepts: Formative Lingerings” – Day 2

Hosted by the graduate students of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. Obsolete Concepts: Formative Lingerings is a 2-day symposium held on 28-29 March 2008 and hosted by the graduate students of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. The conference is aimed at […]

Mary Kelly — Artist Talk

On Fidelity – Art, Politics, Passion and Event. Part of the Distinguished Visiting Artist Program. Mary Kelly has contributed extensively to the discourse of feminism and postmodernism through her large-scale narrative installations and theoretical writings. Her recent exhibitions include Documenta XII, Kassel, , WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, […]

Michael Gaudio — The Sound of the Image: Picturing a Native American Dance, 1592/1894

Part of the Joan Carlisle Irving Lecture Series "The Politics of Materiality and Matters of the Bio-political". Michael Gaudio, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota, specializes in the visual culture of early modern Europe and the Atlantic world (ca. 1500-1800).  His scholarship, which focuses primarily upon England and North America, examines the […]