Past Events
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
John Onians, Why We Need Neuroarthistory
Cohen Hall, Room 337
A Seminar with John Onians: Why We Need Neuroarthistory
Visual Studies New York Networking Event
Art Bar, 52 Eighth Avenue
A networking event for Visual Studies alumni and their friends in the New York area.
Making and Materiality: Studio Arts in a Liberal Arts Education
Saturday Speakers at Penn Museum Mark Campbell (Dean, College of Art, Media & Design, Univ. of the Arts, Phila) John Carvalho (Villanova, Philosophy) Anjan Chatterjee (Penn, Medicine) David Comberg (Penn, Fine Arts) Kira DiClemente (VLST alum; Brown, Public Health) Matt Freedman…
Welcome Back Meeting
Students and faculty are invited to Visual Studies' annual welcome back meeting. Meet faculty and students, get a chance to hear about programming and courses for the year with light refreshments.
Commencement/Exhibition Closing Reception
A reception for friends and family of graduating Visual Studies seniors. Please RSVP to Ian Verstegen: verstege@sas.upenn.edu
Perceptual Learning: Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience
Friday, May 12th General Introduction and Welcome: 1:00-1:10: Kevin Connolly 1:10—2:45: Christine Massey (UCLA) “Unifying and Applying Perceptual Learning” 3:00—4:30: Casey O’Callaghan (Washington University, St. Louis) “Perception, Flux, and Learning” Saturday, May 13th 11:00-12…
