Lecture Series

VISUAL & CULTURAL STUDIES LECTURE SERIES SPONSORED BY ASCC

2024-25

  • Dr. Lisa Pon (USC), "Immersive Raphael Project Presentation and Demo," April 29, 2025. 
  • Maite Gomez-Rejón (ArtBites), "Women, Cookbooks, and Activism," (co-sponsored with Women's History Month), March 5, 2025.

2023-24

  • Jesica Arista (Getty Villa), "Ancient Objects Conservation Overview and Case Studies," April 30, 2024.
  • 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

2022-23

  • 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.  

2021-22

  • 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. 

 

2020-21

  • 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

2019-20

  • 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

2018-19

  • 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

2017-18

  • 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.

2016-17

  • 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.

2007-08 

  • 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.

2006-07 

  • 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 

2005-06

  • 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.

2001-02

  • Mark Greenfield, "Artist Talk," Spring Semester.

2000-01 

  • Juliette Minces (Author), "Veiled: Women in Islam," Spring Semester.