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This graduate course at NYU from May 17-June 25 is open to all interested students:



E58.2403 Topics in Visual Culture and Cultural Studies: Visuality and Globalization

Nicholas Mirzoeff

May 17 - June 25

Monday/Wednesday 1:30 - 4:10 pm

Call number: 40912 (4 credits)

Visual culture studies visuality as a key component of globalization. By visuality, we mean the visualization of history, composed…

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The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania presents Searching Looks: Asian American Visual Cultures, a two-part series of talks which explores the materiality and practice of visual culture in Asian America.



Part I:



5pm, Wed, March 31, 2010

Slought Foundation

4017 Walnut Street 


Philadelphia, PA 19104-3513 




Anne Anlin Cheng, “Strange Skin, Subjunctive Body”



The visual culture surrounding the racialized, female body… Continue

I first “met” Andy Warhol in the early 1990s. My art teacher in high school, Mr. Jenson, was showing a video about the life and times of Warhol, but he quickly turned off the TV/VCR when one of the “Pope Ondine” scenes from Warhol’s, underground film, Chelsea Girls (1966) came on the screen. This particular scene shows Ondine, one of Warhol’s many bohemian friends, playing the role of the Pope as a self-righteous and hyper-effeminate acting, methamphetamine using, and Coca-Cola drinking… Continue