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03/05/2020

Tonight: Critical Theory Reading Group: How the Body Knows. Read whatever you can; ask questions about the rest. All are welcome!

Join us for our 9th Annual Visual Culture Symposium keynote address! Amber Jamilla Musser, George Washington University ...
02/28/2020

Join us for our 9th Annual Visual Culture Symposium keynote address!

Amber Jamilla Musser, George Washington University

“Mickalene Thomas and the Black, Q***r Female Origin of the Universe”

This talk works through Mickalene Thomas’s Origin of the Universe, a version of Gustave Courbet’s Origin of the World that positions her black bedazzled v***a in place of an anonymous white model’s genitalia. In Thomas’ production of a decorative and intimate landscape, I argue that she portrays Audre Lorde's theories of the erotic as feminine and maternal. In this way, Thomas shows us the racialized contours of black q***r female sexuality and illuminates through her use of the rhinestone how an attachment to surface and its excesses might redraw eroticism.

02/08/2020

The deadline for proposals to the 2020 Visual Culture Symposium--The Optics of Excess: How the Body Knows--has been extended until Monday 2/10 at midnight!

Thank you all for joining us last week for our Winter Faculty Lecture with guest speaker Dr. Lauren McLeod Cramer!
02/07/2020

Thank you all for joining us last week for our Winter Faculty Lecture with guest speaker Dr. Lauren McLeod Cramer!

02/05/2020

Interested in presenting at the VC graduate student symposium on 3/6? CFP posted here!

This month at WSU!!!!!
01/21/2020

This month at WSU!!!!!

Brownbag by professor renée c. hoogland this week at the Humanities Center at Wayne State -- 12:30pm.
11/04/2019

Brownbag by professor renée c. hoogland this week at the Humanities Center at Wayne State -- 12:30pm.

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