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Gaza and Aestheticide: Seminar with T. J. Demos at Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid
February 10th, 2026Reina Sofia MueseumMadrid This seminar examines the systematic destruction of Palestinian collective sensibility — what we might call “aestheticide” — that has accompanied Israel’s genocide and ecocide in Gaza, and considers the conditions of artistic practice in its aftermath. Over more than two years, the demolition of universities, archives, museums, and libraries has…
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How To Apply to Graduate School Workshop
Come join HAVC faculty for a workshop on applying to graduate schools (both at the MA and Ph.D. level). If you are applying to graduate school this current application cycle or considering it for next year, we highly encourage you to join us. Thursday, November 20th12:00 – 1:00 PMPorter D-245 RSVP is strongly encouraged. If you plan on…
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HAVC Screen Printing Social
Come to the Porter Koi Pond Courtyard on Wednesday, November 19th at 2:00 PM for an opportunity to hang out with your HAVC student representatives and mentors, HAVC advisor (Audrey), and other HAVC students while we screen print a unique HAVC design on a t-shirt, tote, poster paper, or whatever you choose to bring. We will also have some blank tote bags available on a first…
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Visual Studies Grad Students Participate in “Archives and Futurisms” Workshop with Dr. Winnie Wong
On November 13, 2025, Visual Studies grad students took part in a workshop led by Dr. Winnie Wong, a professor in the Rhetoric Department at UC Berkeley who specializes in fakes, forgeries, and counterfeits. Titled “Archives and Futurisms: (Auto-)Ethnographies of Writing,” the workshop explored different modes of writing about asymmetrical archives, or what Saidiya Hartman…
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Mirra-Margarita Ianeva presents at the 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium: Revolution
Mirra (first row, 2nd from right) with the keynote speaker, panelists, and organizers. Mirra-Margarita Ianeva participated in a panel at the 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium in November. This year’s theme considered revolution as a mode of imagining new ways of seeing, knowing, and acting in the field of art history. Mirra presented…
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UCLA Professor Kency Cornejo speaks December 4
Kency Cornejo, the author of Visual Disobedience, an important book about contemporary visual arts and decoloniality in Central America, will be coming to speak on Dec. 4th, 3:30-5pm in McHenry Library, Lower Level Room 1256.
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A Warm Welcome to Clementine Bordeaux, Assistant Professor of History of Art & Visual Culture
The HAVC Department is pleased to welcome Assistant Professor Clementine Bordeaux as the newest member of our faculty. Clementine is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate (Rosebud Sioux tribe) and was raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation (South Dakota). Clementine has spent her academic career supporting and cultivating urban and rural tribal community…
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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…