Center for Visual Culture

Weekly Colloquium: Sept. 12, 2018
"Questions of Value and Bondage"
Matthew Francis Rarey, Assistant Professor of the Arts of Africa and the Black Atlantic, Oberlin College, on representations of slavery.
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Weekly Colloquium: Sept. 26, 2018
Tales of Amnesia
Prof. Natasha Bissonauth presents "Chitra Ganesh's Tales of Amnesia: Re-Imagining Goddess Iconography through Queer Form."
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Special Event: Oct. 10
Exhibition Opening with Homay King
"An island, a ship, a prison"—a conversation and installation of video works by Domietta Torlasco, with Homay King.
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Weekly Colloquium: Oct. 10, 2018
"The Rules of the Game (of Art)"
Artist Ken Lum on living the life of the artist.
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Weekly Colloquium: Oct. 24, 2018
"Translating India"
Chanchal Dadlani, Assoc. Prof. of Art History, Wake Forest University, on Mughal art and late 18th century French knowledge production.
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Weekly Colloquium: Nov. 7, 2018
"The Religion of Health"
Elizabeth Lee, Associate Professor of Art HIstory, Dickinson College, on Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Cancer, and the Phillips Brooks Monument.
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Weekly Colloquium: Nov. 14, 2018
"The Vision of Immortality"
Presented by Jie Shi, Assistant Professor of History of Art on the Jye Chu Lectureship in Chinese Studies, Bryn Mawr College.
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Since 1999, the Center for Visual Culture at Bryn Mawr College has served as home to a weekly colloquium featuring presentations by scholars across a wide range of disciplines, as well as talks by visual artists, curators, and theorists, who engage and challenge in this forum.

The Center for Visual Culture builds on the traditions in art and archeological study at Bryn Mawr while supporting inquiry and exploration into modern visual expression.

Presentations sponsored by the Center are free and open to the public.

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