Spring 2025 Events

Please RSVP to vsri@usc.edu unless otherwise stated. Click the arrow to view the full Spring 2025 Calendar of Events.

Of Interest: Early Modern Studies Institute Annual Conference

“Big Paper: Large Design in the Renaissance.” Friday & Saturday, January 24 & 25. Steward R. Smith Board Room, Huntington Library, San Marino. Click to RSVP by January 17.

USC-LACMA Photo Seminar: “Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema”

Exhibition tour with JESSICA NIEBEL, Senior Exhibitions Curator, Academy Museum. Saturday, February 1, 10:00am PST. Academy Museum Limited capacity, RSVP required.

Anne Friedberg Memorial Lecture: “Capturing the Invisible: Radiation, Community, and Grassroots Media Circulation around the Fukushima Disasters”

WAKAE NAKANE, PhD Candidate, Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, USC. Thursday, February 27, 12:30-2:00pm PST. SOS 250.

EMSI Visual and Material Culture Seminar: Lecture, Discussion, and Collections Workshop

SUREKHA DAVIES. Friday, March 7, 10:00am-2:00pm. Seaver Classroom 3, Huntington Library. Click to RSVP by February 28. Co-sponsored by the VSRI.

USC-LACMA Photo Seminar: “Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work (1932-1945)”

GAËLLE MOREL, PH.D. Curator, Exhibitions and Public Engagement, The Image Centre, Toronto. Wednesday, March 26, 5:30-7:00pm. PST SOS 250.

Co-Sponsored: Russian Afterlives of the Early Modern

Friday and Saturday, March 28-29. Time and location TBA. Organized by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

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

RUTH E. ISKIN, Professor Emerita, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Wednesday, April 2, 12:30-2:00pm PST. SOS 250.

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. THH 309K.

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.

VSRI Community News

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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.