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.
Syrus Marcus Ware
LECTURE
Irresistible Revolutions: Systems Change and Art at the Edge of the Future
Thursday, September 19, 2024
5 PM CDT
Elvehjem L140
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WORKSHOP*
Creating Change: Practicing the Future Together
Friday, September 20, 2024
12 PM CDT
6321 Humanities
*Please contact cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu to register the workshop.
Jonathan Flatley
LECTURE
“Our Friend” Angela Davis, the Black Communist Star
Thursday, October 24, 2024
4 PM CDT
Vilas Hall 4070
WORKSHOP*
Black Leninism and Collective Formation
Friday, October 25, 2024
12 PM CDT
University Club Room 313
*Please contact cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu for links to a suggested reading and film discussed during the workshop.
Abolition Symposium
Che Gossett
Jennifer Gonzalez
Kimberly Juanita Brown
April 11 & 12
Usha Iyer
LECTURE
Indian Cinema and the Caribbean: Media in the Wake of Enslavement and Indenture
Thursday, October 10, 2024
4 PM CDT
Vilas Hall 4070
WORKSHOP*
Abolition and Pedagogy
Friday, October 11, 2024
12 PM CDT
University Club Room 313
*Please contact cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu for required readings.
Spring Programming
Spring Programming
Danielle Roper
February 6 & 7
David Pullins
February 20 & 21
Eric Stanley
March 6 & 7
Priya Jaikumar
March 20 & 21
Other Events
Darshana Mini
LECTURE
Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
12 PM CDT
University Club Room 212
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CVC Research Forum
Friday, November 8, 2024
9:30 am to 3:30 pm
University Club Room 313
Graduate Students
Anna Gebarski, Interdisciplinary Theater Studies
Anne Stoner, Art
Atefeh Ahmadi, Art History
Kayla Bauer, Special Committee
Mirella Maria, Art History
Faculty
Anna Andrzejewski, Art History
Anna Campbell, Gender & Women’s Studies
Matthew Brown, African Cultural Studies
Paola Hernández, Spanish & Portuguese
Theresa Delgadillo, Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
CV & Proposal Workshop
Friday, January 31, 2025
Time and location to be announced—stay tuned!
Celia Irina González
LECTURE
Bone Eyes: Fossil Future
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
4:30 PM CDT
Elvehjem L140
AH801 Public Presentations
Thursday, 5 December
5 to 7 PM
Elvehjem L140
More details to be announced—stay tuned!
Sponsors:
Our work is made possible by support from the Anonymous Fund, the College of Letters and Sciences, and the 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, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies Program, and Wisconsin Center for Film & Theatre Research.