Join Visual Studies students and faculty to kick off the new year. After the long pandemic, let's get together to meet and hear about plans for the next academic year.

Join us for the opening of the 2021 Visual Studies Senior Exhibition opening. We will unveil the web exhibition while holding a reception via zoom. The exhibition will go live at 5pm on Tuesday May 4th at: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/vlst2021exhibition/ The reception will be held…

Presentations of Visual Studies Senior Projects: 1. 9-9:30 Olivia Schiff (Aaron Levy, Jamie Diamond) 2. 9:30-10 Amelia Roessler (Oren Pinhassi, Gregory Vershbow) 3. 10-10:30 Priyanshi Pokharna (Elizabeth Lovett) 4. 10:30-11 Jean Chapiro (Peter Decherney, Gregory Vershbow) 5. 11…

"Rudolf Arnheim and the Disquieting Questions of Life and Art"

Join the Visual Studies program for the mid-year presentations of each of the seniors. Each student receives a block of time to present their project and work, leaving time for questions and comments. The schedule, with students and their advisors, is pasted below. Mid-Year VLST…

On Friday, December 11th at 3:30pm, please join us for an alumni chat with Lucy Nebeker (’18), as she recounts her path from Visual Studies to a career in film. A recent graduate from UPENN, Lucy majored in cognitive neuroscience and visual studies with a minor in film. At 18…

Join our zoom drop in during the Course and Major Fair

The Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine will host Anjan Chatterjee, MD. This event will be held virtually via Zoom. Please RSVP to receive a link. Below the registration form, you may choose to add this event to your calendar. Visit us at…

In this talk I will critically discuss the relevance of an enactive approach to human cognition for film and media studies. Rooted in J.J. Gibson’s ecological approach to visual perception and in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, enactivism is an emerging perspective in…

The annual Senior Project Exhibition will be hosted online this year.