Events at: Irving K. Barber Learning Center, Lillooet Room 301

Michael Krebber — UN TRAIN PEUT EN CACHER UN AUTRE

An Artist Talk by Michael Krebber Michael Krebber is a Cologne-based German artist whose practice incorporates painting, drawing, installation, critical writing and bookmaking. He has taught a painting class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt since 2002. His critical writing has been published in Texte zur Kunst and Artforum. “For several decades Krebber has investigated painterly […]

The Future of the Contemporary Symposium

Held in conjunction with the exhibition Luis Camnitzer at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. Traditionally, the museum as an institution has been devoted to a stable public. Conceived in order to exhibit the collections of individual donors and nation states to a sympathetic and stationary audience, the space of […]

Art History Graduate Student Roundtable Presentations

Art History Graduate Students Roundtable presentations Please join the department to hear Art History graduate students present their thesis research. Each presentation will be followed by a question and answer period. Refreshments will be served. Dana Loughlin The Entomology of Ornament: Essai de Papilloneries Humaines and the Metamorphoses of Eighteenth-century Decorative Art Vikki Addona Boundaries of License: […]

Art History Graduate Student Roundtable Presentations

Art History, CCST MA/PhD Graduate students will present abstracts of their research Please join the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory for the Art History Graduate Student Roundtable presentations.  Each presentation will be followed by a question and answer period.  Refreshments will be served. 10:00 – 10:45          Klara Manhal (CCST candidate) 10:45 – 11:30          Jenny Walton (CCST candidate) […]

8th Annual Art History Undergraduate Symposium

The University of British Columbia’s Department of Art History and the Art History Students’ Association cordially invite you to attend the 8th Annual Art History Undergraduate Symposium. 2:45 PM – Eve King-Harris, Boundaries of the Breasts: Why Breastfeeding is Political 3:15 PM – Jocelyn Plant, Imaging Anxieties, Creating Anxieties: Pieter de Hooch’s Interior of a […]

MFA Roundtables

Doors open at noon with presentations beginning at 12:45pm The University of British Columbia’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory invite you to attend this year’s MFA Roundtables. Doors open at noon with presentations beginning at 12:45pm The order of presentations is as follows: 12:45 – 1:30 Yan Luo 1:30 – 2:15 Nelly […]

The 35th Annual UBC Art History Graduate Symposium: The Unseen

Friday, March 30th, 2012 10:30– 10:45: Opening Remarks Panel I: 10:45 – 11:30: Chris Jones (University of Florida), “’Walk into the View’: Rephotography as Art Practice 1975-2010″ 11:30 – 12:15: Frances Cullen (University of Alberta), “Stillness in Motion: Alex Prager’s Despair and the Reassessment of Cinematic Time” 12:15 – 1:15: Lunch Break 1:15 – 1:30: […]

Amelia Jones

Queering Performance and Performing Queer – The Histrionic Performances of Nao Bustamante, 5:30 – 8 PM In this lecture Jones argues that American artist Nao Bustamante queers performance and performs queer. Trickster and humorist, romantic and philosopher, Bustamante acts out through histrionics and emotional excess, treading the line between sincerity and fakery in her range […]

Peerless Prodigies

Lecture 4 to 6 pm, held in conjuction with book exhibition December 4 – 20, 2012 In conjunction with an exhibition of her book,The Peerless Prodigies of P.T. Barnum, on view at the I.K. Barber Learning Center Foyer, December 4 – 20, Dr. Jillian Lerner, an AHVA PhD alumni and sessional instructor will be giving […]