The Visual Studies Graduate Student Association of the University of California, Irvine is proud to present its inaugural graduate student conference:

The Discipline Formerly Known As....

FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1999, 3 pm, HIB 110

Keynote Address by Michael Ann Holly, Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies and Chair of the Department of Art History, University of Rochester

"Mourning and Method"

SATURDAY, MAY 1, HIB 110

9:30 am ­ Opening remarks

10:00 am Spectatorship and Pleasure

Respondant: Professor Jim Herbert, Department of Art History, UCI

Lurking in the Shadows: Film Noir and Surrealism, Virginia Bonner, Emory Univerity

Wabbit Twouble: Bugs Bunny, Drag and the Gender-Bendable Body, Joanna Bouldin, UCI

A Moving and Telling Image: The Melodrama of (The) "Titanic," Naomi Greyser, UCI

Lunch 12:30-1:30

1:30 pm Intersecting Identities

Respondant: To Be Announced

Gauguin's Lost Paradise: Marquesan Period and the Negotiation of Crises, Annalee Andres, Institute of Fine Arts, New York

Following Stardom: Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's Italy, Ora Gelley, University of Chicago

(Re)Writing the Aboriginal Body, Betsie Gross, University of Southern California

Subjectivity in "East and East," Anthony Siu, University of Hong Kong

4:00 pm Spaces of Meaning

Respondant: Professor Anne Friedberg, Department of Film Studies, UCI

Writings on the Visible: Mendelssohn's Masoretic Text and Moorsih Revival Architecture, Cyril Reade, University of Rochester

Oscillating Positions: Tales of the Turnstile, Holly Sherratt, UCI

7 pm, HIB 100, Special Screening of Sunsets, attended by filmmakers Michael Idemoto and Eric Nakamura

For more info, email dfka@benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu