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Visual Studies Student Conferences
University of California, Irvine

2012 Conference

Constructing Worlds: Making and Breaking Order

An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the
Graduate Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine
April 5-6, 2012
Irvine, California

Keynote Speaker:
Lisa Parks
Professor of Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Special Thursday Night 'Worlding Showcase' (PechaKucha-Night)

The Visual Studies Graduate Conference at UC Irvine is pleased to present a conference on constructing worlds. The conference program includes work that addresses constructed worlds in all their visual manifestations, taking into account the introduction of various technological, philosophical, and political developments in our contemporary cultural discourse which contain the power to not only construct new worlds, but also to redefine and destroy existing ones.

The full conference program can be viewed by clicking here.


Past Conferences

(In)Visible Subjects: Bodies, Spaces, Disciplines 2011

Windows: A Working Papers Conference 2010

Birth/Day: Origins, Temporality, Hybridity 2009

The Street: A Visual Studies Conference 2008

Decadence: A Visual Studies Conference 2007

Failure: Ethics and Aesthetics 2006

Home: A Visual Studies Conference 2005

Violence: Detonations of Vision 2004

Life by Design: Everyday Digital Culture 2003

The Color of Money: A Conference on Visuality & Economics 2002

The Discipline Formerly Known As . . . 1999