2022-2023 Theme:
“Aesthetics for Times of Crisis: Horror, Humor, Hunger”
This year-long lecture series looks at the intersections among historical, political, and affective visualities, including still and moving image art, theater and performance, and theoretical approaches that call attention to an array of iconographies and performative practices. We are especially interested in visual responses to crisis that engage modes of horror, humor, and hunger that may explore how vulnerability, precarity, and sociality relate to the affective modes of crisis. In framing this year’s theme in terms of the potentials of aesthetics for times of crisis, we have invited talks and other events that focus on a wide range of approaches to how art’s visceral modes— including weird, shocking, or weak/minor modes of affect, aesthetics, and practice—can help us rethink crisis.
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.

Lecture:
Thursday, March 23, 2023
5:00 PM CST (in-person and online)
Elvehjem L140
Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94770627236
Workshop:
Friday, March 24, 2023
12:00 PM CST
UClub Room 212
432 East Campus Mall
*To register for the workshop, please RSVP to cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu
All are welcome!
Lecture:
Thursday, April 13, 2023
5:00 PM CST (in-person and online)
Elvehjem L140
Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97339009824
Workshop:
Friday, April 14, 2023
12:00 PM CST
UClub Room 212
432 East Campus Mall
*To register for the workshop, please RSVP to cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu
Julia A. B. Hegewald
Lecture:
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
12:00 PM CST
Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92342161001
Workshop:
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Lecture:
Thursday, April 6, 2023
5:00 PM CST (in-person and online)
Elvehjem L140
Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94545872626
Workshop:
Friday, April 7, 2023
12:00 PM CST
UClub Room 212
432 East Campus Mall
*To register for the workshop, please RSVP to cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu
All are welcome!
Jazmin Llana
Lecture:
Thursday, April 27, 2023
5:00 PM CST (in-person and online)
Elvehjem L140
Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92424334809
Workshop:
Monday, May 1, 2023
5:00-8:00 PM CST
432 East Campus Mall
*To register for the workshop, please RSVP to cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu
Faculty Research Forum
Friday, February 3, 2023
12:00–1:30 PM CST
The Hagen Room
Elvehjem Building
Join us in-person (lunch provided) or on Zoom https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91091508570
Graduate Research Forum
Friday, March 3, 2023
12:00–1:30 PM CST
The Hagen Room
Elvehjem Building
Join us in-person (lunch provided) or on Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98858273643
Romina Paula

Lecture:
“Seeing, Hearing, Speaking: Rendering Life through Images and Words”
Thursday, September 29, 2022
5:00 PM CDT (in-person and online)
Elvehjem L150
Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98319160748
Workshop:
“Language’s Migration”
Friday, September 30, 2022
12:00 PM CDT (in-person and online)
UClub Room 212
432 East Campus Mall
*To register for the workshop, please RSVP to cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu
All are welcome!
Samhita Sunya

Lecture:
“‘Why is the world organized this way?’:
Cinema, Cinephilia, and the Global 1960s via Bombay”
Monday, October 24, 2022
5:00 PM CDT (in-person and online)
Memorial Library Room 126
Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91592710745
Workshop:
“Visual Cultures in Transregional Contexts”
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
12:00 PM CDT (in-person and online)
UClub Room 212
432 East Campus Mall
*To register for the workshop, please RSVP to cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu
All are welcome!
Sara Blaylock
Round table:
Early Career Publishing in Visual Culture
Melissa DuPrey & Miranda González
Screening and Discussion:
“Brujaja“
Thursday, October 13, 2022
5:00 PM CDT (in-person and online)
Elvehjem L150
Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97635847073
Workshop:
“The art of risking self when writing / directing / performing ethnoautographically”
Friday, October 14, 2022
12:00 PM CDT (in-person and online)
UClub Room 212
432 East Campus Mall
*To register for the workshop, please RSVP to cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu
All are welcome!
Kareem Khubchandani
Lecture:
“Aunty Aesthetics, or More Ways to be an Aunty”
Thursday, November 17, 2022
5:00 PM CDT (in-person and online)
Elvehjem L150
Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94192623804
Workshop:
“Divas, Drag Queens, Aunties, and Other Academic Personas”
Friday, November 18, 2022
12:00 PM CDT (in-person and online)
UClub Room 212
432 East Campus Mall
*To register for the workshop, please RSVP to cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu
All are welcome!
Joy Episalla
Lecture:
Joy Episalla: Crack Fold Burn Bright
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
6:30 PM CST (in-person and online)
Elvehjem L140
and via Zoom.
Screening:
Being and Belonging
Thursday, December 1st, 2022 5:00 PM CST
Chazen Auditorium with reception to follow in Paige Court