Lecture Series

Dr. Jenny Lin (USC Roski), Exhibition Talk – “Another Beautiful Country: Moving Images by Chinese American Artist” at the USC Pacific Asia Museum, March 6, 2024
Sam Nakahira (Comic Artist and Cultural Worker), Book Talk – Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape, March 26, 2024.
Dr. Amy Amy Lyford (Arthur G. Coons Professor in the History of Ideas, Occidental College), "Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning," April 29, 2024

Film Screening: Audible with its star Amaree McKenstry-Hall, discussion moderated by Dahlene Holliness, Daryl Tyler, and Krystine Crable, co-sponsored by Black/Africana Studies Department, Falcons Rising, and Student Accessibility Services (SAS), September 27, 2002.

Mobolaji Olambiwonnu (film director), Ferguson Rises Film Screening and Discussion, co-sponsored by Falcons Rising and the Black/Africana Studies Department, February 3, 2022.
Dr. Erica P. Jones (Fowler Museum), "Six Thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven Objects: Provenance and Museum Collections from the Colonial-Era," October 13, 2021.
Alumni Journeys discussion with Antoine "AJ" Girard (independent curator, cultural strategist, and Cerritos College alum), co-sponsored by the Cerritos College Alumni Association, August 25, 2021.

Dr. James Fishburne (Forest Lawn Museum), "Replicating Michelangelo: Modern and Postmodern Monuments in L.A. and Beyond," March 30, 2021.
Anuradha Vikram (LA-based Writer, Curator, and Educator), "Historical Revisions: Looking Back on Five Years of Decolonizing Culture,” May 6, 2021.
Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank (SmartHistory), "Beyond the canon and the textbook: Expanding Art History with SmartHistory," May 11, 2021.

Visual & Cultural Studies Speaker Series poster

Melody Rodari (Loyola Marymount University), "Colonial Legacies: Buddhist Art in the Modern Museum," March 11, 2020.
Young Joon Kwak, "Artist Talk: Dilectio," February 24, 2020.
Rebecca Hall (USC Pacific Asia Museum), "We Are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles," February 20, 2020.
"Locatora Radio: A Radiophonic Novela Femme Defense Workshop," a workshop about the history of self-defense and resilience of femmes and women of color from a Latin American and U.S. Latinx context, presented by Visual & Cultural Studies Program in collaboration with the Latinx Heritage Month Committee, September 18, 2019.

Rebecca Hall lecture We are here

Erikki Huhtamo (University of California, Los Angeles), "Kaleidoscope, Pokémon Go, and Media Manias: A Media Archaeological Perspective," April 11, 2019.
Heather Graham (California State University, Long Beach), "Mourning at the Margins: Reading Raphael's Entombment Altarpiece through the History of Affect," March 28, 2019.
Laura Llwellyn (J. Paul Getty Museum), "Simone Martini: Painter and Pioneer," January 31, 2019.
Bridget Cooks (University of California, Irvine), "The Black Index," October 30, 2018.
Jennifer King, (Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA]), "Museum Pictures: Vera Lutter at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art," October 23, 2018.

Bridget Cooks lecture Black Index

Peter Weller, PhD, "A Reassessment in Historiography and Gender: Donatello's Bronze David in the Twenty-First Century, "May 8, 2018.
Star Montana, “Artist Talk,” April 16, 2018.
Judithe Hernández, "Time Travel on the Expo Line: Designing the Art for the Downtown Santa Monica Terminus Station," March 26, 2018.
Kim Richter (Getty Research Institute), "Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas," October 17, 2017.

Julie Trager and James MacDevitt (Cerritos College), “Tangerine: Film Screening and Discussion,” April 24, 2017.
Thomas Folland (L.A. Mission College), “Queer Modernism,” April 10, 2017.
Christine Milroy (Southern California Trangender Counseling), “Ma Vie en Rose: Film Screening and Discussion,” February 28, 2017.

Panel Discussion: "ROUND TWO:“B***h”, “H*e”, “N***a”:Gender Representations in Hip Hop," Spring Semester.
- Sohail Daulatzai University of California, Irvine
- Melange Lavonne, Hip Hop artist
- Ebony A. Utley, California State University, Long Beach
- Oliver Wang California State University, Long Beach
- Kristine Wright, University of California, Irvine
Jack Halberstam (University of Southern California), “Animating Revolt/Revolting Animation”, Spring Semester.

Panel Discussion: "B****, H**, N****: Gender Representations in Hip Hop," Spring Semester.
- Sohail Daulatzai, University of California, Irvine
- Steven Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles
- Karen Tongson, University of Southern California

Panel Discussion: "Divas and Jeffes: Gender roles in American and Mexican Soap Opera, Spring Semester.
- Dr. Jorge Garcia, California State University, Northridge.
- Dr. Kristine Wright, California State University, Long Beach
- Dr. Jennifer Terry, University of California, Irvine.
- Dr. Lena Chao, California State University, Los Angeles.