Kaja is one of our age’s most significant and innovative theorists, bridging photography, film scholarship, art history, and psychoanalysis. She will present from her forthcoming volume The Three-Personed Picture. Her visit is co-sponsored by the Center for Psychoanalysis and Culture, the Dept of Comp Lit, Ewa Ziarek Julian Park Chair, the Dept of Media Study, […]

Ron Athey is considered to be one of the most important performance artists working today. Famed for his work that dealt with issues of pain and endurance as a metaphor for those living with HIV/AIDS (among whom Athey counts himself) he has begun a series of new works exploring the prospect of achieving transcendence in […]

The Queer Studies Research Workshop presents Director of the Visual Studies PhD Program Jonathan D. Katz, "The Gray Flannel Suit and the Fright Wig: Warhol, Queerness and the Birth of Pop." Katz's new work on the prehistory of Pop underscores the powerful connections among Pop, Queerness, and the discursive prominence of a new category of […]