2024-2025 “Abolition” Programming
For the academic year 2024-2025, the Center for Visual Cultures’ year-long public series will focus on the theme of “Abolition.” Abolition is a contemporary transcultural effort to combat different instances of discrimination, injustice and stigma. Our program visualizes an end to all systems of oppression, including the violent maintenance of the gender binary. The past few years have shown us that neoliberal visions of a post-race society are (as they have always been) a myth. As we reel under new (but also continuing) crises—the demonization of critical race theory, animosity towards diversity frameworks, attacks on bodily autonomy from reproductive rights to trans and queer agency—how may we consider abolition today? The work of the arts and humanities in this scenario is clear and urgent: racial discrimination, gender inequities, class divides have not only not disappeared, they are also being exacerbated by global north/global south divides, new, virulent forms of right-wing populism, climate injustice, and the marketing of violent governmentalities from the “first” to other worlds.
Please join us!
The CVC has a video archive available upon request.
Please contact us if you would like to view a particular lecture from Fall 2018 – Present.
Upcoming Events
AH 801 Public Presentations
HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, AND METHODS IN VISUAL CULTURE
Thursday, December 5
5 to 7 PM
Elvehjem L140
Anju Kinoshita
Rethinking Manga Boundaries: Case Study of the Artists Village Aso 096k Project
Benjamin Chin-Hung Kao
3 am is not too late / to find the way back” – settler (not-too) lateness in 1990s romantic-comedy and its negations
Forrest Ashworth
Claiming White Space: Blue Light Infrastructure in Public Spaces
Nimish Sarin
Filming the Other Juteopolis: Labor, Empire, and the Process Genre in Jute(1923)
Oluwatosin Philip Adeyemi
Terror to Transformation: Critical Visuality, Contemporary Artists Interventions in America’s Lynching Legacy
CV & Proposal Workshop – Deadline Extended!
Friday, January 31, 2025
10 am to noon
Followed by lunch
Application Deadline Extended: December 8, 2024
Spring Events
Spring Programming
Spring Programming
Danielle Roper
February 6 & 7
David Pullins
February 20 & 21
Eric Stanley
March 6 & 7
Priya Jaikumar
March 20 & 21
CHENG Nien Yuan
With Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies
LECTURE
All frame, no performance: anti-narrative dramaturgies in the storytelling state
Thursday, March 13, 2025
WORKSHOP
Doing and using interview stories in documentary performance
Friday, March 14, 2025
Abolition Symposium
Che Gossett
Jennifer Gonzalez
Kimberly Juanita Brown
April 11 & 12
Pyle Center Vandeberg Aud. 121
9 am – 9 pm
Sponsors:
Our work is made possible by support from the Anonymous Fund, Brittingham Fund, University Lectures, College of Letters and Sciences, and Department of Art History. Series co-sponsors include the Departments of Afro-American Studies, Art, Chican@ & Latin@ Studies, Communication Arts, Curriculum & Instruction, Design Studies, English, Gender & Women’s Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese, as well as Abolition & Refuge Borghesi-Mellon Workshop, Center for the Humanities, Center for Research on Gender & Women, Center for South Asia, Chazen Museum of Art, Division of the Arts, Human Rights Program, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies Program, and Wisconsin Center for Film & Theatre Research.