Past Events
Final Presentations - Senior Projects
Fox Gallery, Cohen Hall
Visual Studies Final Presentations Visual Studies seniors present their projects against the backdrop of the senior exhibition. 10-10:30 Natalie Larkin-Gilmore (advisors: Anna Neighbor and Karen Detlefsen) 10:30-11 Jalen Hutchinson (advisors: James Howzell and Ian Verstegen) 11…
Eric Kandel, “From Vienna to New York: Memory of a Life in Two Worlds.”
Annenberg School for Communication, Room 110
3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
In this talk, 2000 Nobel Laureate Dr. Kandel explores his career in brain science and its connection to art through the lens of autobiography; he also reflects on how Jewishness has shaped his life as a scientist and a thinker. His recent book Reductionism in Art and Brain…
Reception for History of Art and Visual Studies Students and Faculty
Co-op Restaurant and Loungs, 20 South 33rd Street
The Undergraduate Advisory Boards (UAB) of both History of Art and Visual Studies are hosting a reception/happy hour on Thursday March 22, from 5-7.
Brown Bag Lecture: “This Is Also How We Are Accustomed to Depict the Heavens and the Four Elements”: Vesalius, the Eye, and 16th-Century Visual Culture
Science History Institute
315 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Join us for a Brown Bag Lecture by Tawrin Baker, postdoctoral fellow in the visual studies program at the University of Pennsylvania. Andreas Vesalius’s On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543) contains some of the most iconic images in the history of science and medicine, and it…
Penn History of Art Colloquium: Michael Leja, Fusing Photographs and Breaking Eggs: The Langenheims' Niagara Series Stereographs
University of Pennsylvania - History of Art Department
Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe History of Art Building - 3405 Woodland Walk
Mid-Year Senior Project Presentations
Fox Gallery, Cohen Hall
Visual Studies Mid-Year Presentations Tuesday, December 5 th Fox Gallery, Cohen Hall 12-12:30 Jalen Hutchinson (advisors: James Howzell, Ian Verstegen) 12:30-1 Bianca Jimenez (advisors: Kayla Romberger, Ian Verstegen) 1-1:30 Helen DuGan (advisors: Gary Hatfield, Russell Epstein)…
Visual Studies Major Dinner
Greenhouse of the Class of 1925 Building, Gregory College House.
An informal dinner for underclassmen to learn more about the Visual Studies major from upperclassmen who have declared the major. https://www.college.upenn.edu/node/5250