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Visual Culture Program

Scaling Observations
Devin Griffiths, University of Southern California,
Anna Henchman, Boston University,
Omar Nasim, University of Regensburg,
Anne Sullivan, University of California, Riverside,
9:00am 7:00pm
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Visual Culture Spring Workshop

Anthropocene Media Working Group Workshop
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Digital Reconstruction and the Identification of Gothic Design Plans
Meredith Cohen, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, UCLA,
Kristine Tanton, Associate Professor of Medieval Art, Department of Art History and Film Studies, Université of Montréal (UdeM),
  • Public Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Visual Culture Seminar

The Fuzz: Frederick Wiseman's Law and Order and the Shadow of Police Radio
Jason Hill, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Delaware,
  • Public Event
7:00pm 8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Edan Lepucki reads from and discusses Time's Mouth: A Novel
Edan Lepucki, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Caltech,
  • Public Event
9:00am 10:00am
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Visual Culture Seminar

Water and Equitable Sustainability in the California Central Valley
Angela Islas, Water Project Manager, CivicWell,
  • Public Event
7:00pm 8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

The Possibilities: On Weaving Science into Fiction
Yael Goldstein-Love, Novelist,
  • Public Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Avian AI
Maya Livio, Lecturer in Visual Culture and Spring 2023 Artist in Residence, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
  • Public Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Sun Potentials: Creative Research with Solar Power
Alex Nathanson, Founder of Solar Power for Artists/ RPI & NYU,
Huntrezz Janos, Artist (LA),
  • Public Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

A24's Academic Style; or, Coming of Age in an Era of Student Debt
Jordan Brower, Assistant Professor of English, University of Kentucky,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Poetry Reading
Robin Coste Lewis, American Poet,
  • Public Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Geocinema: Earth Sensing as Filmmaking
Asia Bazdyrieva, Art Historian and Artist,
  • Public Event
7:00pm 8:30pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

A Celebration of Self Help Graphics at Fifty
Yolanda Gonzalez, Artist,
Betty Avila, Executive Director, Self Help Graphics and Art,
Dr. Claudia Zapata, UCLA Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Chicano/a Studies, UCLA,
Dr. J.V. Decemvirale, Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture and Caltech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech,
  • Public Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Visual Storytelling Before Comics: Theorizing the Sequential Image
Rachel Teukolsky, Professor of English, Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science,
3:00pm 4:30pm
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Visual Culture Event: Campus Walking Tour

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Wendy Cheng, Associate Professor of American Studies, Scripps College,
Becky Nicolaides, Research Affiliate, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,
Yvette Saavedra, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Oregon,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

How and what do we know of a work of art?: The Strange Case of Giovanni Morelli and ‘Scientific Connoisseurship'
John Brewer, Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of History and Literature, Emeritus, Caltech,
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Amerasia
Elizabeth Horodowich, Department Head, Department of History, New Mexico State University,
Alexander Nagel, Professor of Art History, New York University,
  • Public Event
2:30pm 4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

ARTIST TALK WITH ERIN JOHNSON
Erin Johnson, Filmmaker, visual artist, and Chair of the Department of Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Almost Inhuman
Caitlin Berrigan, Winter 2023 Artist in Residence, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
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12:00pm 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Artistic Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
Jessica Helfand, Artist, Designer, and Writer (Winter 2020 Artist in Residence),
Joanne Jang, Product Lead, DALL·E,
  • Public Event
2:30pm 4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Online Event
ARTIST TALK WITH KEARRA GOPEE
Kearra Gopee, Anti-disciplinary Visual Artist,
12:00pm 1:15pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

My Electric Genealogy
Sarah Kanouse, Artist and Associate Professor at Northeastern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

DARK ARCHIVE
Elin Slavick, Lecturer in Visual Culture (Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence),
2:00pm 4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
The University in Space
Lisa Messeri, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University,
Eun-Joo Ahn, Graduate Student, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

UnRavelled: Understanding Dementia through Art and Science
Jake Broder, Playwright, Actor, Composer,
7:00pm 8:30pm
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Visual Culture Program

Online Event
Managing the Limits of Visualization
James Elkins, E.C. Chadbourne Chair of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute, Chicago,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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1:00pm 3:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
Organisms in the University
Bradley Bolman, Historian of Science, University of Chicago,
Victoria Lee, History Assistant Professor, Ohio University,
7:00pm 8:15pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Online Event
Art in Data: From Self-Tracking to Mass Migration
Stephen Cartwright, Artist,
2:00pm 4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
The Sciences and Humanities in Crisis
Elizabeth Popp Berman, Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and Sociology, University of Michigan,
Chad Wellmon, Professor of German Studies, History, and Media Studies, University of Virginia,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

Online Event
Black Transfigurations: Engineering, African Cosmologies & Visual Media
Mikael Owunna, Studio Director,
2:00pm 4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
Situating the University in Time and Space
Sharon Stein, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia,
Stephanie Kim, Assistant Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of Higher Education Administration, Georgetown University,
2:00pm 4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
Genealogies of the University
Mordechai Feingold, Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of the History of Science and the Humanities, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Online Event
Poetry Reading
Adrienne Su, Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence, Dickinson College,
  • Public Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

Online Event
Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
Hanna Rose Shell, Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History, Caltech (returning 2022); Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts, University of Colorado-Boulder,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Online Event
Poetry Reading
Alberto Ríos, Writer and Poet,
  • Public Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Online Event
Poetry Reading
Kazim Ali, Professor of Literature, Creative Writing, UC San Diego,
  • Public Event
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
Speculative Worlds: Imagining Past and Future Science
Aimee Bahng, Pomona College,
Kouslaa Kessler-Mata, University of San Francisco,
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Novelist,
Enid Baxter Ryce, Cal State Monterey Bay,
Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Lisa Weasel, Portland State University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Online Event
Decolonizing Deep History
Pratik Chakrabarti, Chair in History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester; Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM),
  • Public Event
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
The Molecular Vision of Life | Reading Group Pt. 4
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
The Molecular Vision of Life | Reading Group Pt. 3
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
The Molecular Vision of Life | Reading Group Pt. 2
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
The Molecular Vision of Life | Reading Group Pt. 1
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
Biopolitical Battle Lines: Between Eugenics and Black Lives Matter
Edgar Arcenaux, USC, Artist, Writer/Director,
Ugo Edu, UCLA,
Kurt Forman, Independent Artist/Filmmaker,
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Princeton University,
Terence Keel, UCLA,
Hentyle Yapp, NYU Tisch School of the Arts,
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
Human, Scientist
Jennifer Jahner, Professor of English (HSS),
Kriti Sharma, Postdoctoral Scholar (GPS),
Charles Xu, Graduate Student in Physics (PMA),
Maura Dykstra, Assistant Professor of History (HSS),
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
From Farm to Family: Agriculture, Race, and the Origins of Eugenics in Southern California
Narsiso Martinez, Independent Artist,
Gabriel Rosenberg, Duke University,
Yvette Saavedra, University of Oregon,
Tiago Saraiva, Drexel University,
Sarah Seekatz, San Joaquin Delta College,
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
Histories of Eugenics: The Human Betterment Foundation and Beyond
Natalie Lira, University of Illinois,
Ayah Nuriddin, Johns Hopkins University,
Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan,
Sandy Rodriguez, Independent Artist,
Virginia Espino, UCLA,
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
Uncomfortable (Bodies in the Archive)
Dorit Cypis, PeoplesLab,
Monique Thomas, Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity,
  • Internal Event
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
Sitting Down with Uncomfortable Things in the Caltech Archives
  • Internal Event
7:00pm 8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

This event has been canceled.
Adrienne Su, Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence, Dickinson College,
  • Public Event
7:00pm 8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program

This event has been canceled.
Lia Halloran, Artist-in-Residence (Spring 2020) and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Kip Thorne, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Caltech,
5:30pm 6:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

This seminar has been canceled.
Felicity Meakins, Associate Professor of Linguistics, The University of Queensland, Australia,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program

This event has been canceled.
Bill Odenkirk, American Comedy Writer,
  • Public Event
7:00pm 8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program

This event has been canceled.
Rob Giampietro, Director of Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York,
  • Public Event
5:00pm 6:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

This seminar has been canceled.
Alan Stern, Planetary Scientist, Southwest Research Institute,
  • Public Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program

This seminar has been canceled.
elin o'Hara slavick, Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program

This event has been canceled.
Leslie Thornton, Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University; former Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Extinction: a (pre-)history
Jeremy Schneider, Graduate Student, Department of History, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

The Reconstruction of Colour Worlds
Sven Dupré, Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology, Utrecht University,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

The Volcano, the Buried Cities, and the Sublime: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions
John Brewer, Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of History and Literature, Emeritus, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program Workshop

Are your figures and cover submissions the best they can be?
Felice Frankel, Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
7:00pm 8:30pm
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Visual Culture Program

More Than Pretty Pictures
Felice Frankel, Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
  • Public Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

Borrowed Light: Art and Astronomy at the Villa Medici
Eileen Reeves, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

Super Recognizers to the Rescue
Sharrona Hyla Pearl, Historian and Theorist of the Face and Body,
  • Public Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Exploring Islamic Maps: From the Earth to the Moon and the Cosmos
Karen Pinto, Associate Research Professor, College of Innovation and Design, Boise State University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

Face
Jessica Helfand, Artist-in-Residence (Winter 2020) and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Caltech Brain Imaging Center; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center, Caltech,
  • Public Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Visual Culture Program

This event has been postponed to Thursday, April 9, 2020.
Leslie Thornton, Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University; former Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech,
2:00pm 4:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

Off Campus
Drawing the Invisible 100-Mile U.S. Border
Ed Gomez, Curator of the MexiCali Biennial; Artist; Assistant Professor of Art and Design, Cal State San Bernardino,
Ian Philabaum, Program Director, Innovation Law Lab,
Arcela Nunez-Alvarez, Research Director, National Latino Research Center (NLRC), Cal State San Marcos,
Hillary Mushkin, Artist and Research Professor of Art and Design, Caltech,
  • Public Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

An Ordinary Arab Ship, and Its Stories of Early Globalism
Geraldine Heng, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Perceval Professor in Medieval Romance, Historiography, and Culture, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Exploring Jupiter
Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute,
  • Public Event