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Professor Kyle Parry to Speak at the Curationist Metadata Learning & Unlearning Summit
Thursday, September 18th from 12pm – 1:30pm EST, onlineRegister for the event, which is free and open to anyone The 2025 Curationist Metadata Learning & Unlearning Summit theme is “Metadata Outside the Box.” The event will spotlight bold, unconventional approaches to metadata, through dynamic presentations, thoughtful discussion, and community Q&A. Panelists: Hailey Loman, Los Angeles…
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History of Art & Visual Culture Fall Orientation
Date: Monday, September 22nd, 2025Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM Location: Porter D-245 The History of Art & Visual Culture (HAVC) Department strongly encourages all incoming undergraduate students to attend our fall orientation event! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn what makes HAVC so unique, hear from faculty about their work, and get your questions…
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Gaby Greenlee is awarded a Postdoctoral Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities at Stanford University
Since obtaining her PhD in 2022, Dr. Gaby Greenlee has received fellowship support from various organizations for her research and writing on textiles as expressions of power and identity within the Inka empire. In Fall 2025 she will begin a Postdoctoral Mellon Fellowship through Stanford University’s Humanities Center and Department of Art and Art History. During…
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Zoe Weldon-Yochim appointed Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Zoe has formally accepted a tenure-track position, beginning in September, as Assistant Professor of Art History in Contemporary Art and Theory at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Zoe is a scholar of contemporary art whose research examines how visual and material culture engages the intertwined histories of nuclear colonialism, ecological violence, and U.S. militarism.
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HAVC End of Year/Graduation Celebration
HAVC’s End of Year/Graduation Celebration will take place on Thursday, June 12th from 1:00 – 3:00 PM at the Porter College koi pond courtyard (outdoors). All HAVC students are most welcome, and we especially hope our graduating seniors will join us (with family/supporters if they’re in town). Graduates will be presented with a cord. Students: Please RSVP…
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Professor Stacy Kamehiro Awarded 2025 ACLS Fellowship
Awards Recognize Excellence in Humanities and Social Sciences Research UC Santa Cruz is proud to announce that Professor Stacy Kamehiro has been awarded a 2025 ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The longest running program at the organization, ACLS Fellowships support outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Professor Stacy Kamehiro has been recognized as one of 62…
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HAVC Graduate Studies Panel: Preparations, Applications, and the Review Process
When: Wednesday, May 7th from 12:00 – 1:00 PMWhere: Porter D-245 Please join us for a panel discussion with Dr. Albert Narath (Director of Graduate Studies, HAVC), Maria Evangelatou (Professor, HAVC), and Jennifer Gonzalez (Professor, HAVC) on preparing for graduate studies in history of art and visual culture. The panelists will discuss how undergraduates can best prepare…
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First Friday with the HAVC Reps!
Visit the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History with the HAVC Reps! Join us for a tour of the exhibitions and then for some pizza at Woodstock’s afterward! Including the new exhibition at the MAH, HOWL: The Art & History of Pets. RSVP is appreciated but not required. Hope to see you there! When: April 4th…
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Jeppe Ugelvig & Axelle Toussaint are part of the inaugural cohort of the THI Moving Image Lab Public Fellows
Jeppe is a curatorial fellow at the Kramlich Collection in Napa Valley where he is producing an exhibition catalogue for the Collection’s current exhibition, Portraits, and organizing future exhibitions and programs that highlight the uniqueness of the institution’s media art holdings. Axelle is an exhibition fellow at the de Young Museum in San Francisco where she…
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Nora Khan – Discernment: Generative Images, Synthetic Media and Evolving Critical Impulse
Creative Technologies & History of Art and Visual Culture present a guest lecture by Nora Khan as part of Creative Interventions: A Colloquium in Arts, Design, and Media. Discernment: Generative Images, Synthetic Media and Evolving Critical Impulse What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we…
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HAVC Graduate Student Panel w/ Q&A
Please join us to learn about graduate school from current students in HAVC’s Visual Studies Ph. D program! Our panel of graduate students will be talking about their backgrounds, how they decided which programs to apply to, life as a graduate student, career goals, and more! There will also be time for questions. Friday, Feb. 21st 1:30…
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First Friday With The HAVC Reps
Visit the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) with the HAVC student reps! Join us for a tour of the exhibitions and then free pizza at Woodstock’s afterward. Includes the new exhibition Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz. Date: This Friday, Feb. 7th at 5:30 PMLocation: The MAH @ 705 Front Street (downtown Santa Cruz)