Humanities Institute

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 […]

A visiting PhD student from Germany, Klassen will give a work in progress talk: “Swimming Away from NormativA visiting PhD student from Germany, Klassen will give a work in progress talk: “Swimming Away from Normative Fixations: The Politics of Wolfgang Tillmans’s Cameraless Photo Series Freischwimmer in the Context of Techno and Rave Club Culture”e Fixations: […]

"Edward Said met the great French novelist only once, in Beirut in 1972. However, the presence (and absence) of the author haunts Said during the last decade of his life when he was battling with leukemia and obsessively preoccupied with questions of music. This was the period in which he founded the now-famous middle-eastern youth […]

Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory, and criticism of modern and contemporary art. Murray is Associate Editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and is the author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights. Graduate seminar 21 Nov, 12:00-2:00 pm, 1032 Clemens

Visual AIDS commissioned seven artists— Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye, Reina Gosset, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia Labeija, Tiona McClodden and Brontez Purnell – to create short videos emphasizing Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic. Time to be announced.