News & Events
Upcoming Events
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T.J. Demos – Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform
DATE: October 9th, 2024TIME: 12:15 pm – 1:30 pmLOCATION: Humanities 1, Room 210 If “climate apartheid” is on the rise, as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò warns, then Cop City Atlanta—the multimillion-dollar new police training facility built by clear-cutting the city’s largest green space—offers an ominous flashpoint. For not only is Cop…
Faculty News
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A Warm Welcome to Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
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Prof. Jennifer González to Speak at The Politics and Aesthetics of Migration Conference at Columbia University
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Prof. Stacy Kamehiro edits a special issue of Pacific Arts (the journal of the Pacific Arts Association)
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Prof. Jennifer González Delivers AHAA Symposium Keynote Speech
Graduate Student News
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Jeppe Ugelvig curated “Future Ours” at the United Nations
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Zoe Weldon-Yochim served as the 2022-23 Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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National Endowment for the Humanities honors Watsonville Is In The Heart with a prestigious $75,000 project grant
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Jeppe Ugelvig receives UCHRI Grant for establishing UC Fashion Working Group
Alumni News
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Christina Ayson-Plank accepts a position at the Smithsonian Institution
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Jordan Reznick Contributes to Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection / Yosemite at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Jordan Reznick’s article “Indigenous Space: Hodinöhsö:ni’ Sky World and the Territories of American Art” is published in American Art
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Sara Blaylock Wins WCGS Book Prize
Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia Series
The annual Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia Series at UC Santa Cruz is a collaboration between the graduate programs in the Film and Digital Media Department and Visual Studies in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department. The series brings an array of cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad spectrum of subjects.