PROGRAMME FOR THE 2010 VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES CONFERENCE


To book email info@instituteformodern.co.uk or download the booking form
Date: Thursday 27th May 2010 – Saturday 29th May 2010

Venue: The Old Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London


Cost: £50/25 concessions, booking essential 

Thursday 27th May 2010

12:00 Registration

1:00-2:15 Session 1

W.J.T. Mitchell (English and Art History, University of Chicago)

2:15-4:15 Session 2 Roundtable: Education

Mark Dunhill (School of Art, Central Saint Martins College)

William Cobbing (Wimbledon College of Art)

Joanne Morra (School of Art, Central Saint Martins College)

Adrian Rifkin (Art Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London)

Joy Sleeman (History and Theory of Art, Slade School of Fine Art)

Victoria Walsh (Education and Interpretation, Tate Britain)

4:45-6:30 Session 3

Gary Hall (Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University)

Joanna Zylinska (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London)

6:30-8:30: Reception

Friday 28th May 2010

10:00-11:15 Session 4

Keith Moxey (Art History and Archaeology, Columbia)

11:15-1:00 Session 5

Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Geography, Durham University)

David Cunningham (Cultural & Critical Studies, University of Westminster);

1:00-2:00 Lunch (Not provided)

2:00-4:00 Session 6 Roundtable: Design Studies – Visual Studies – Cultural Studies

Glen Adamson (Design/Craft, RCA/V&A)

Sarah Chaplin (Architectural Humanities, Greenwich University)
Elizabeth Guffey (Design, SUNY, Purchase)

Raiford Guins (Digital Cultural Studies, SUNY, Stony Brook)

Guy Julier (Design, Leeds Metropolitan University)

Penny Sparke (Design History, Kingston University)

4:30-5:45 Session 7

Lisa Cartwright (Communication, UC, San Diego) 

Saturday 29th May 2010

10:30-11:45 Session 8

Nicholas Mirzoeff (Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University)

11:45-1:30 Session 9


Esther Leslie (Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London)
Esther Gabara (Romance Studies, and Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University)

1:30-2:30 Lunch (Not provided)

2:30-4:30 Session 10 Roundtable: The Future Institution: An International Association for Visual Culture Studies?

Michael Ann Holly (The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown)

Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London) 
Stephen Melville (Art/Aesthetics/Philosophy, Ohio State University)

Griselda Pollock (Art Histories/Cultural Studies, University of Leeds)

Marquard Smith (Visual Culture Studies, University of Westminster)

4:30 Conference Ends

Organizers: Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University), Joanne Morra (University of the Arts London), Marquard Smith (University of Westminster, London)