Spring 2025 Events

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Co-Sponsored: Russian Afterlives of the Early Modern

Friday and Saturday, March 28-29. 10am-3pm, THH 309K. Organized by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Images Out of Time: “From Colonial Science to Transnational Heritage? The Photographic Constellation of the Institut Français Afrique Noire”

CHARLOTTE BIGG, Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris. Friday, April 4, 3:00-5:00pm PST. SOS 250.

Contact Improvisation Workshop with Aimar Pérez Galí

Tuesday, April 15, 5:00-7:00pm PST. Fisher Museum of Art Courtyard. Presented by USC Visions and Voices.

EMSI Visual and Material Culture Seminar: “Remediation American Style: Towards a Media Theory of Colonial Latin American Art”

EVONNE LEVY, University of Toronto. Wednesday, April 16, 12:00-2:00pm PST. Room TBA, USC. Click to RSVP.

A System in Collapse Is a System Moving Forward: Dance Performance-Lecture by Aimar Pérez Galí and Daniel Méndez Piña

Wednesday, April 16, 7:00-9:30pm PST. Joyce J. Cammilleri Hall. Presented by USC Visions and Voices.

Images Out of Time: “Revolutionary Fashion Time”

ANNE HIGONNET, Barbara Novak Professor of Art History, Barnard College. Tuesday, April 22, 12:30-2:00pm PST. SOS 250.

EMSI Visual and Material Culture Seminar: “A Feast of Images”

JÉRÉMIE KOERING, University of Fribourg. Wednesday, April 23, 12:30-2:00pm PST. ZOOM. Click to RSVP.

“Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy”

RUTH E. ISKIN, Professor Emerita, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. POSTPONED TO FALL 2025.

VSRI Community News

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VSGC and Art History PhD candidate Rose Bishop receives Predoctoral Fellowship with the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program

Congratulations to VSGC student and Art History PhD candidate Rose Bishop, who has been awarded a nine-month Predoctoral Fellowship through the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program! She will be conducting research at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and National Museum of American History under the supervision of curators John Jacob and Shannon Perich.

Darshana Sreedhar Mini publishes “Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire”

VSGC alum Darshana Sreedhar Mini has published her first book, Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire. The research for this book was supported in part through the Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant while Darshana was a Ph.D. candidate at USC. Click here to learn more!

Isabel Frampton Wade publishes in American Art

VSGC alum Isabel Frampton Wade has published an article in American Art titled “Harry Drinkwater and the Limits of Architectural Photography, 1966–69.” Check out the article here!

Avigail Moss co-edits a special issue of Oxford Art Journal

VSGC alum Avigail Moss has recently co-edited a special issue of Oxford Art Journal, titled “Art and the Actuarial Imagination.” This issue originated at a 2015 VSRI event where she met her co-editor, Matthew C. Hunter. Please check out the issue here.