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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Graduate Symposium\, Fri. Nov. 13
DESCRIPTION:This year’s annual UCLA Department of Art History Graduate Symposium will be held at the Hammer Museum’s Nimoy Studio on Friday\, November 13\, 2026. This year’s theme is Bodies Under Duress: Violence\, Pressure\, and the Visual. \nAcross art and visual culture\, bodies have served as both the objects upon which power is exercised and the means through which its effects become visible\, imaginable\, and contested. Bodies Under Duress invites scholars to consider how visual and material practices register the forces exerted upon bodies\, while also asking not only what happens to bodies under violence\, but how violence is made possible\, legitimized\, enacted\, and remembered or forgotten.  We are honored to welcome Meredith Gamer\, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University\, as our keynote speaker. Specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art\, her research explores the intersections of visual culture\, violence\, punishment\, and power. Her recent book\, City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London (2026)\, examines the relationship between art and public execution. \n\n\nThe symposium is open to the public and all are welcome to attend!\n\n\nKindly RSVP here
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-graduate-symposium-fri-nov-13/
LOCATION:The Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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SUMMARY:2026 Regents' Lecturer Events: Walead Beshty
DESCRIPTION:Our 2026 Regents’ Lecturer events in Art History with the artist Walead Beshty are scheduled\, for Mondays November 2\, 16 and 30\, in Royce Hall 306. All events will begin at 5:00 PM \n\nAesthetics\, an open seminar\nWalead Beshty \nArtist and theorist Walead Beshty will lead a series of three open seminars organized around his forthcoming book\, Worlds of Appearance: An Introduction to Aesthetics in Practice (University of Chicago Press\, 2026)\, exploring the foundations of aesthetics\, its use in reflexive disciplines in the field of art\, and its emergent forms. The seminars are open to all and each session will consist of a lecture followed by open and exploratory discussion. \nSession 1: Monday\, November 2nd\, 5pm\nThe Circulation of Appearances: A General Aesthetic Model \nPolis and the Commune – The Aesthetic Commons – Inclusion\, Exclusion\, and the Sensible – Perception and Modeling (Abstraction) – Communication (Transmission vs. Communion) – Tools and Extraction – Object and Thing – Apparatuses and Incorporation – Fit and Ritual – Convention – Power and Aesthetic Management – Empathy – Instrumental (Vernacular) Aesthetics/Aesthetics Under the Duress of Urgency \nSession 2: Monday\, November 16th\, 5pm\nArtistic Conditions: A Special Aesthetic Model \nInstrumentality vs. Reflexivity – Corporate Media Formats (A Special Case of Instrumentality) – Representation and Framing – Exhibition and Display as Representational Formats – Artistic Methodologies – The Readymade and Reframing – Misrecognition and Strategies of Estrangement – Allegory and Mis en abyme – Bricolage – Creolization – Counterfeiting\, Piracy\, and Shanzhai \nSession 3: November 30th\, 5pm\nEmergencies: On Information\, Noise\, and Emergent Forms \nInformation Theory – Neo-liberalism and Information Models – Information and Probability – Digitization – Correlation and Empathy – Meaning – Noise\, the Parasite\, and the Third – Noise as Resistance – The Aesthetics of Emergent Forms – The Appearance of the Excluded \nBeshty’s book from which the seminars stem will be just out by November this quarter. A publication page is attached\, and the link for the publication follows: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo277099462.html
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/2026-regents-lecturer-events-walead-beshty/
LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261028T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261028T140000
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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Dell Upton\, Oct. 28
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Dell Upton on Wednesday\, Oct. 28 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for his talk\, The Decapitation of a Great Blockhead.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-colloquium-with-dell-upton-oct-28/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 275\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261023T203000
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SUMMARY:Anton Vidokle\, Oct. 23
DESCRIPTION:Anton Vidokle is an artist and editor of e-flux journal. He was born in Moscow and lives in New York and Berlin. Vidokle’s work has been exhibited internationally at Documenta 13 and the 56th Venice Biennale. Vidokle’s films have been presented at Bergen Assembly\, Shanghai Biennale\, Berlinale International Film Festival\, Forum Expanded\, Gwangju Biennale\, Center Pompidou\, Tate Modern\, Garage Museum\, Istanbul Biennial\, Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Tensta Konsthalll\, Blaffer Art Museum\, Stedelijk Museum\, Lincoln Center\, MMCA Seoul\, the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art\, and others. He served as chief curator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale:\nCosmos Cinema\, and in 2024 he was appointed artistic director for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by UCLA’s Department of Art History.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/anton-vidokle-oct-23/
LOCATION:UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios\, 3600 Hayden Ave\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
CATEGORIES:Art History co-sponsored event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261022T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261022T163000
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SUMMARY:Art Council Lecture Series – Abbey Stockstill
DESCRIPTION:Abbey Stockstill\, Associate Professor and Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair\, in the Department of Architectural History\, at the University of Virginia will be presenting a UCLA Art Council Lecture Series presentation entitled “None Like It in Islam”: Material Aesthetics Between Andalusi Production and Maghrib Patronage \nDescription:\nTo look at the art of medieval North Africa is to enter a scene in which familiar motifs\, transformed by material and arrangement\, compose a new visual world. \nAn artistic explosion occurred in the twelfth-century Mediterranean\, as emergent dynasties from the western extremes of the region brought together new avenues of material exchange\, craftsmanship\, and ideologies. Despite this wave of production\, modern scholarship has struggled to articulate the impact of this period\, falling back on outmoded tropes of artistic “influence” and equating ornamental expense with quality. This talk explores how this dynamic has obscured the real innovation of the period\, and argues for a more subtle\, intermedial aesthetic vision.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/art-council-lecture-series-abbey-stockstill/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 275\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261006T160000
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SUMMARY:Art Council Lecture Series - Ellie Mackin Roberts
DESCRIPTION:The 2026-27 Art Council Lecture Series begins with “From Loom to Goddess: Weaving\, Cognition\, and Women’s Religious Experience in Ancient Greece” presented by Ellie Mackin Roberts. \nAn RSVP is required here by October 1st. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/art-council-lecture-series-ellie-mackin-roberts/
LOCATION:UCLA Dodd Hall\, Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260923T133000
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SUMMARY:Art History Department Welcome Back Luncheon\, Sept. 23rd
DESCRIPTION:The annual Welcome Back Lunch will be held in the faculty lounge at 12 PM\, Wednesday\, September 23\, 2026.  Please join us to grab a bite and greet the incoming graduate students!
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/art-history-department-welcome-back-luncheon-sept-23rd/
LOCATION:Faculty Lounge\, Dodd 221B\, Dodd Hall
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260601T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260605T160000
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SUMMARY:UCLA Art History and Classics Annual Book Giveaway
DESCRIPTION:Please gather your friends & join us at the UCLA Art History & Classics Annual Book Giveaway which will take place in the hallways of Dodd Hall 2nd floor from 9am-4pm on Mon-Fri\, June 1-5. These books have been generously donated by our Faculty and there are A LOT of fantastic finds. You will NOT want to miss this!!
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/ucla-art-history-and-classics-annual-book-giveaway/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall\, Second Floor\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260520T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260520T160000
DTSTAMP:20260416T033947Z
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SUMMARY:Art Council Lecture Series - A Conversation with Annemarie Jacir
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, May 20\, at 2 PM\, PT the Art History Department will host Writer and Director\, Annemarie Jacir for a conversation about her film “Palestine 36.” \nMs. Jacir will be appearing virtually for this event.  Guests may attend in-person in Dodd 247 or attend via webinar. \nKindly RSVP here to receive the webinar information prior to this event.  All are welcome!
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/art-council-lecture-series-a-conversation-with-annemarie-jacir/
LOCATION:UCLA Dodd Hall\, Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260520T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260520T140000
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SUMMARY:"Fowler Talks: Across Borders\, Across Time\," May 20th
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the 200th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States and Peru\, on Wednesday\, May 20th\, the Fowler Museum\, in collaboration with the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, Waystation Initiative\, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, Andean Laboratory at UCLA\, and the Consulate General of Peru in Los Angeles\, will host “Fowler Talks: Across Borders\, Across Time\,” an in-person public program spanning the afternoon and evening. The event will feature Carlos Wester La Torre and remarks by Christopher Donnan\, director emeritus of the Fowler Museum and Cotsen Institute at UCLA\, Silvia Forni\, Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director of the Fowler Museum\, and Stella Nair\, professor of art history and director of the Andean Laboratory at UCLA. \nThis presentation and conversation will explore the historical and contemporary dimensions of U.S.–Peru relations through UCLA’s scholarly and fieldwork collaborations on the north coast of Peru. The discussion will reflect on the past\, present\, and future of archaeological research and cultural exchange between the two countries. The program will be conducted in English and Spanish with live translation. \nThe event will take place in the Lenart Auditorium in the Fowler Museum at 5:30 pm PT. A light reception in the Fowler Courtyard will follow. \nFor more information about the event\, follow this link. Please\, register in advance on the event’s Eventbrite site. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/fowler-talks-across-borders-across-time-may-20th/
LOCATION:Lenart Auditorium at the Fowler Museum
CATEGORIES:At UCLA
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260514T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260514T140000
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SUMMARY:“Building Guanajuato: Architecture and Infrastructure in a Late Colonial Mining City\,” with Dr. Luis Gordo Peláez
DESCRIPTION:The Architecture Working Group is pleased to announce that their next event will be held on Thursday\, May 14\, 2026 at 12:00 PM PT via Zoom. \nWith the support of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, and the UCLA Department of Art History\, we will be joined by Dr. Luis Gordo Peláez\, Associate Professor in the School of Art\, Design and Art History at California State University\, Fresno. \nDr. Peláez is an architectural historian who studies the history of cultural production and built environment of the early modern transatlantic Hispanic world. Dr. Peláez will present a talk entitled “Building Guanajuato: Architecture and Infrastructure in a Late Colonial Mining City.” \nPlease register in advance for the talk using this link: https://tinyurl.com/AWG-Luis-Gordo-Pelaez.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/building-guanajuato-architecture-and-infrastructure-in-a-late-colonial-mining-city-with-dr-luis-gordo-pelaez/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History co-sponsored event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260512T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260512T163000
DTSTAMP:20260507T232405Z
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SUMMARY:No Place Like Home\, Eighteenth-Century London in an Age of Change
DESCRIPTION:The Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, UCLA Department of Art History\, and the Winter 2026 Ahmanson Seminar are pleased to present the exhibit opening of “No Place Like Home\, Eighteenth-Century London in an Age of Change” \nMeet the Curators on May 12th.  All are welcome!
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/no-place-like-home-eighteenth-century-london-in-an-age-of-change/
LOCATION:Williams Andrews Clark Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angelese\, CA\, 60018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art History co-sponsored event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260511T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260511T190000
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SUMMARY:Jolene Rickard to present the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture\, May 11
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lecture\, featuring Jolene Rickard\, Associate Professor\, Departments of Art History + Visual Studies\, Art American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program\, Cornell University. \nProfessor Rickard’s lecture is entitled\, “Creative Defiance as Sensory Ecologies.” \nThe Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lectureship was established in memory of UCLA alumna Gretchen Millson in December 2009 by her husband\, Dr. John J. Millson. Gretchen graduated from UCLA with a B.A. from the Department of Art in 1961. This endowed fund provides much-needed resources to the department to allow us to grow and continue our longstanding tradition of excellence. For more information\, click here. \nThe presentation\, with a reception to follow\, will be held on Monday\, May 11\, 2026 at 4 PM at the Luskin Conference Center’s Laureate Room. \nKindly RSVP by May 4 to ycastellanos@support.ucla.edu or 310-825-0913.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/jolene-rickard-to-present-the-2026-gretchen-taylor-millson-lecture-may-11/
LOCATION:UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260507T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260507T183000
DTSTAMP:20260422T044527Z
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SUMMARY:Palestine 36 screening\, May 7th
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a screening of the film Palestine 36 on Thursday\, May 7.  Doors will open at 4 PM.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/palestine-36-screening-may-7th/
LOCATION:Kinsey Pavillion\, 1220B
CATEGORIES:At UCLA
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260506T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260506T140000
DTSTAMP:20260423T015801Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Susan Dackerman\, May 6
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Susan Dackerman on Wednesday\, May 6 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for her talk\, The Paleontology of Print: Lithographic Limestone and the Nature of Reproducibility.  \nSummary: When in 1796\, the Munich playwright Alois Senefelder developed a method of printing from the surface of the local Bavarian limestone\, he was utilizing a material that had been reproducing indexical images for millions of years. The Jurassic-era limestone slabs were riddled with fossilized flora and fauna. The same year as Senefelder’s invention\, from study of the same Bavarian limestone\, the French naturalist Georges Cuvier recognized that some fossils in the stone were petrifications of species that were no longer extant\, establishing the idea of extinction. Prior to Cuvier\, fossils were imagined to be images made by Nature itself. Senefelder’s use of the local limestone was preceded by the stone’s use by regional sculptors such as Hans Daucher\, who around 1500 turned from marble to the native limestone because the characteristics of the stone suited precision carving. Many of the fossil-laden stone sculptures subsequently were used as templates to cast bronze copies\, conceptually replicating the stone’s capacity to cast fossils. Nearly 300 years later\, the stone’s generative potential again was exploited to make printed multiples known as lithographs. My paper imagines how examining the history of early modern sculpture and prints alongside the history of paleontology enables us to see how Nature\, and the contemporaneous historical theories that explicate it\, have informed the work of artists\, as well as shaped the history of print and replication. \nAll are welcome!
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-colloquium-with-susan-dackerman-may-6/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260422T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260422T140000
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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Felix Ho Yuen Chan\, Apr. 22
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Felix Ho Yuen Chan on Wednesday\, Apr. 22 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for his talk\, Work on [Il]literacy: Sidney D. Gamble’s “May Fourth China” Photographs (1917-1925). \n 
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-colloquium-with-felix-ho-yuen-chan-apr-22/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 275\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260415T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260415T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T043313Z
CREATED:20260307T072819Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: 2025-26 UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lectureship in Art History - Hilton Als\, Part Two
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances\, part two of the UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lectureship with Hilton Als is cancelled.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your understanding. \nHilton Als delighted the audience in part one of the 2025-26 UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lectureship in Art History on Wednesday\, March 5th.  If you missed this talk on Diane Arbus\, you can watch it on YouTube here. \nAls will be returning to the Billy Wilder Theater on Wednesday\, April 15th at 7:30 PM for a conversation with Zoë Ryan\, Director of the Hammer Museum. The conversation will be on curating\, and specifically giving attention to the many exhibitions he has curated both at the Hammer (Joan Didion) and elsewhere\, specifically to the kind of artists and artworks he has highlighted\, and to the larger issue of his curating exhibitions in relation to the issue of writing\, and to literature and specific writers (from James Baldwin to Jean Rhys). \nPlease join us for Part Two of this lecture series.  All are welcome!
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/2025-26-ucla-art-council-distinguished-scholar-lectureship-in-art-history-hilton-als-part-two/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260309T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260309T193000
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SUMMARY:2026 Annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture featuring David Schneller
DESCRIPTION:This year’s lecture will be presented by Professor David Schneller\, Assistant Professor of Art History\, on Monday\, March 9\, 2026.  All are welcome but kindly RSVP in advance by emailing: ycastellanos@support.ucla.edu or call (310) 825-0913 by March 2. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/2026-annual-patricia-mccarron-mcginn-lecture-featuring-david-schneller/
LOCATION:UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260304T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260304T210000
DTSTAMP:20260224T062016Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T062016Z
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SUMMARY:2025-26 UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lectureship in Art History - Hilton Als
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/2025-26-ucla-art-council-distinguished-scholar-lectureship-in-art-history-hilton-als/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260304T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260304T160000
DTSTAMP:20260219T083804Z
CREATED:20260219T071756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260219T083804Z
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SUMMARY:Sonja Drimmer lecture on Mar. 4\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be held virtually in Dr. Nina Horisaki-Christens’ AH C170A course.  All are welcome to attend! \nRecolonizing the Museum and the GLAM-work of AI\nThis talk addresses the partnerships forged between the GLAM sector and the tech industry\, which have been an essential component of AI’s development\, particularly in the field of computer vision. It argues that this partnership reprises the colonialist origins of the Euro-American museum for the modern global economy.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/sonja-drimmer-lecture-on-mar-4-2026/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 146\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260225T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260225T150000
DTSTAMP:20260218T042547Z
CREATED:20260218T042253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260218T042547Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Meredith Cohen\, Feb. 25th
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Meredith Cohen on Wednesday\, Feb. 25 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for her talk\, Digital Gothic: Quantifying Change in Medieval Architecture. \nAll are welcome! \n 
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-colloquium-with-meredith-cohen-feb-25th/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 275\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260213T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260213T160000
DTSTAMP:20260206T021046Z
CREATED:20260206T021046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T021046Z
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SUMMARY:"How to Be a Guerrilla Girl" exhibit tour on February 13
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to a UCLA Art History Study Day and Visit to the Getty Museum on Friday\, February 13\, 2026 at 1:30 PM to tour “How to Be a Guerilla Girl” exhibition with “Käthe Kollwitz” and curators Zanna Gilbert and Kristin Juarez.  This Hopps Colloquium event is open to all Art History students\, faculty and Dodd staff. \nRegistration is mandatory by Tuesday\, February 10th.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/how-to-be-a-guerrilla-girl-exhibit-tour-on-february-13/
LOCATION:J. Paul Getty Museum\, 1200 Getty Center Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90049\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260128T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260128T150000
DTSTAMP:20260117T034825Z
CREATED:20260117T034825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260117T034825Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Tiffany Barber\, Jan. 28
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Tiffany Barber on Wednesday\, Jan. 28 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for her talk\, Contemporary Black Women’s Art\, Antiquity\, and the Liquid Turn.\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP here in advance
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-colloquium-with-tiffany-barber-jan-28/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 275\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260110T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260110T130000
DTSTAMP:20260117T042951Z
CREATED:20260117T042951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260117T042951Z
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SUMMARY:MONUMENTS at MOCA
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Art and Art History Joint Study Day and Visit to the exhibition “Monuments” at MOCA Geffen
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/monuments-at-moca/
LOCATION:MOCA Geffen
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251210T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251210T183000
DTSTAMP:20251203T045505Z
CREATED:20251203T045505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251203T045505Z
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SUMMARY:Department of Art History's Holiday Celebration\, Dec. 10th
DESCRIPTION:Come grab a taco and toast to the end of the year!
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/department-of-art-historys-holiday-celebration-dec-10th/
LOCATION:Faculty Lounge\, Dodd 221B\, Dodd Hall
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251118T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251118T155000
DTSTAMP:20251120T031833Z
CREATED:20251120T031833Z
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SUMMARY:Seth Denizen speaks about his book "Thinking Through Soil" in Prof. Stella Nair's graduate seminar
DESCRIPTION:Seth Denizen (WashU) speaks at Professor Stella Nair’s Wastelands and Waterways (AH 203) graduate seminar about his book “Thinking Through Soil.” \n 
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/seth-denizen-speaks-about-his-book-thinking-through-soil-in-prof-stella-nairs-graduate-seminar/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 275\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251117T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251117T173000
DTSTAMP:20251029T000634Z
CREATED:20251029T000634Z
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SUMMARY:Walter Hopps Colloquium with Jennifer Sichel\, November 17\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:Please save the date for the next Hopps Colloquium. It will be a lecture and book event\, celebrating the publication of Jennifer Sichel’s new book from University of Chicago Press\, in the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection series: Criticism Without Authority: Gene Swenson’s and Jill Johnston’s Queer Practices (2025). \nThe Walter Hopps Colloquium\, an ongoing series of lectures and discussions in modern and contemporary art\, funded in part via the Hopps Chair\, will begin with a lecture on artist Edward Keinholz\, with whom Hopps founded the Ferus Gallery in 1957. \nThis fall quarter\, the colloquia will run alongside Professor George Baker’s graduate seminar AH232 Contemporary Art\, which proposes to reexamine and open up LA art history in the 1960s and 70s by thinking it through global and other networks. \nJennifer Sichel\nUniversity of Louisville \nIn the 1960s\, Gene Swenson and Jill Johnston transformed art criticism into something much more expansive and unruly. Incorporating elements of poetry\, performance\, and protest\, they developed idiosyncratic practices that forged new ground\, politically and aesthetically. These critics were deeply enmeshed in New York’s avant-garde art scene\, and both were explicitly and unapologetically queer. This lecture and discussion will trace how Swenson and Johnston changed the course of artmaking as they refused norms of disciplined writing and authoritative voice. \nA graduate of Williams College and the University of Chicago art history programs\, Jennifer Sichel is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the University of Louisville’s Hite Institute of Art and Design\, and affiliated faculty in the Department of Interdisciplinary and Comparative Humanities. A scholar of 20th and 21st-century art history\, she focuses on practices that fall outside traditional genres of artmaking and develops methodologies in careful dialogue with queer and affect theory. Her book\, Criticism without Authority: Gene Swenson’s and Jill Johnston’s Queer Practices (University of Chicago Press\, 2025)\, traces how Swenson and Johnston reinvented criticism as a capacious practice by rejecting modernist appeals to purity and coherence. They devised new ways not only to describe experiments in art and performance\, but also to enact new queer sensibilities. At the same time\, they often failed to effect change or to see a bigger picture beyond their own triumphs and struggles. Criticism Without Authority makes their work visible not just as criticism\, but as its own form of art. \nSichel has published scholarly and critical writing in Selva: A Journal of the History of Art\, The Oxford Art Journal\, Sculpture Journal\, as well as in exhibition catalogues for museums including The Whitney Museum\, The Jewish Museum\, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien\, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. She is the author of “‘Do You Think Pop Art’s Queer?’ Gene Swenson and Andy Warhol” —a key queer intervention that changed art history’s understanding of Warhol’s practice through archival recovery\, and established Swenson’s importance as a queer writer and artist. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Clark Art Institute\, Smithsonian Archives of American Art\, Terra Foundation for American Art\, and Humanities Division at the University of Chicago. \nReception to follow in the Art History and Classics Faculty Lounge.
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/walter-hopps-colloquium-with-jennifer-sichel-november-17-2025/
LOCATION:UCLA Dodd Hall\, Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251114T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251114T163000
DTSTAMP:20251001T032418Z
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SUMMARY:The 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium\, Fri. Nov. 14\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:The 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium will be held on Friday\, November 14th at the Hammer Museum’s Nimoy Studio. \nThis year’s theme considers revolution as a mode of imagining new ways of seeing\, knowing\, and acting in the field of art history. The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr. Sohl Lee\, whose work explores the nexus of art\, activism\, and institutional critique in contemporary Korea and East Asia more broadly. \nWe encourage everyone to come by and take in a session or stay all day.  All are welcome!
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/the-60th-annual-ucla-art-history-graduate-symposium-fri-nov-14-2025/
LOCATION:The Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251105T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251105T150000
DTSTAMP:20251029T003139Z
CREATED:20251029T003139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T003139Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with George Baker\, Nov. 5
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker George Baker on Wednesday\, Nov. 5 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for his talk\, Paul Thek and the Italian South: From Pop to the Popular\, From Process to Procession.\n\n\n\nAll are welcome!
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-colloquium-with-george-baker-nov-5/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 275\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251021T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251021T155000
DTSTAMP:20251120T021030Z
CREATED:20251120T021030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251120T021030Z
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SUMMARY:Vittoria di Palma at AH 203 Graduate Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Vittoria di Palma speaks at Professor Stella Nair’s Art History 203: Wastelands and Waterways graduate seminar class to discuss her book\, “Wastelands\, a History.” \nHer visit is sponsored by the Center for Early Global Studies at UCLA. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/vittoria-di-palma-at-ah-203-graduate-seminar/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 275\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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