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Society & Culture
September 16, 2019 | 11:47 am

How do physical spaces help create community?

In her highly visual, multi-year project “Fertile Ground,” cultural anthropologist Kathryn Mariner is researching placemaking in the city of Rochester, and her focus on how community is formed is shared by this year’s Humanities Center lectures.

topics: Department of Anthropology, events, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, humanities, Humanities Center, Kathryn Mariner, School of Arts and Sciences,
Featured
July 23, 2019 | 12:36 pm

A ‘model of scholarly possibility’: Remembering Douglas Crimp

An internationally renowned art and cultural critic, theorist, curator, and activist, Rochester professor Douglas Crimp created work important to thinkers across the arts and humanities.

topics: Department of Art and Art History, Douglas Crimp, featured-post-side, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, humanities, obituaries, School of Arts and Sciences,
Campus Life
April 24, 2019 | 01:40 pm

Two honored as Student Employees of the Year

Doctoral student Clara Auclair, who works as a digitization specialist in River Campus Libraries, and Cameron Morgan ’19 (T5), a public speaking fellow in the Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program were honored during National Student Employment Week.

topics: awards, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Linguistics, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Student Employee of the Year, Writing Speaking and Argument Program,
Society & Culture
August 31, 2018 | 10:41 am

In remote regions of the South Pacific, cell phones have transformed daily life

In a new book, The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones, Rochester anthropologist Robert Foster describes the sometimes surprising developments when governments open up the telecommunications sector to competition.

topics: Department of Anthropology, global engagement, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Papua New Guinea, research finding, Robert Foster, School of Arts and Sciences,
Voices & Opinion
March 1, 2018 | 11:23 am

Thinking about ‘visual privilege’ and the 2018 Oscars

Sharon Willis, a member of Rochester’s Film and Media Studies program faculty, says this year’s nominations show that change may be afoot in Hollywood—but that how much movies will be transformed remains to be seen.

topics: Department of Art and Art History, featured-post-side, film, Film and Media Studies Program, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Sharon Willis,
The Arts
January 19, 2018 | 10:13 am

Artist Walid Raad to discuss war, art, and memory

Conceptual artist Walid Raad ’96 (PhD), an associate professor of art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, will be the third speaker in the Humanities Center’s annual public lecture series, devoted this year to the theme of memory and forgetting.

topics: alumni, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Humanities Center,
The Arts
September 26, 2017 | 09:30 am

Humanities Center announces public lecture series speakers

The Humanities Center has announced its slate of public lecture series speakers for this year’s theme of “memory and forgetting.”

topics: Department of Art and Art History, Douglas Crimp, events, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Humanities Center, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
January 6, 2017 | 02:32 pm

Douglas Crimp revisits art world, gay culture of 1970s New York

Before Pictures, a new book by art and culture critic Douglas Crimp, brings together anecdote, criticism, research, and illustration to describe the art world and gay life in New York City in the 1960s and ’70s.

topics: book authors, Douglas Crimp, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
November 30, 2016 | 04:32 pm

Representing AIDS, then and now

Although AIDS is no longer the subject of his work, art and cultural critic Douglas Crimp—the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History and a professor of visual and cultural studies—played a central scholarly role in the first two decades of the AIDS crisis.

topics: Douglas Crimp, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, HIV and AIDS, School of Arts and Sciences,