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The Visual Studies Graduate Student Association formed in the spring of 1997 to support the continued growth of the Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies offered jointly by the departments of Art History and Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine.

Representing diverse academic interests and backgrounds, the VSGSA provides a forum for current graduate students and recent Ph.D.s to address administrative issues and share in scholarly research and pedagogical development. Upcoming events for Winter/Spring 2007 include Works-in-Progress (a mini-conference for the presentation of student work), a Professionalization Workshop, and a roundtable discussion with local scholars on the nature and future of Visual Studies.

The VSGSA also provides support for our annual student conference (organized by the second-year students) and our interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal Octopus.

Finally, the VSGSA is looking to build relations with other grad programs in visual studies, art history, film and media studies, critical studies, and other related fields in Southern California and across the UC system. As part of that endeavor, we have compiled links to these grad student associations or programs:

UC System

UCBerkeley: graduate homepage, History of Art
UCBerkeley: graduate students, Rhetoric
UCDavis: graduate students, Art History
UCIrvine: Critical Models, MFA Program
UCLA: AHGSA, Art History
UCLA: homepage, Program in Critical Studies, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media of the School of Theater, Film, and Television
UCR: graduate students, Art History
UCSC: graduate students, History of Consciousness
UCSD: graduate students, Communication
UCSD: graduate students, Visual Arts
UCSB: graduate students, Art History
UCSB: graduate students, Film and Media Studies

Southern California (non-UC)

Art Center: homepage, Graduate Criticism and Theory
USC: graduate students, Art History
USC: ZdC, Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts
USC: graduate students, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate program

UPCOMING EVENTS

February 29 - March 1, 2008
"The Street"
Graduate Conference sponsored by the UC Irvine Visual Studies Graduate Student Association

NEWS

Octopus releases the CFP for Volume 3: Import/Export