PAST EVENTS

Lunchtime seminar with Dexter Sinister: Welcome to tomorrow, today.*

J.G. Ballard once said: "Science fiction might be the best sort of realism. Maybe the only possible one." This is exactly the sort of insight that a writer of speculative stories can offer.

Visual Studies Lecture Series 2015-2016: I'll Be Your Interface*

Dexter Sinister

Homecoming Alumni Reception

Current students and alumni are invited to mix with special invited alumni in a meet and greet, networking event during Homecoming. 

Course and Major Fair

The Course and Majors Fair provides an opportunity for students to explore majors. Visual Studies will have a table present to answer questions and discuss the major. 

Architecture/Fine Arts/Visual Studies Major Dinner

A major dinner for Freshmen and Sophomores where you can talk to representatives and students from the three related majors of Architecture, Fine Arts and Visual Studies. 

Sorting Brains Out: Tasks, Tests, and Trials in the Neuro- and Mind Sciences, 1890-2015

A conference sponsored by the Department of the History and Sociology of Science.

Penn Art & Culture Freshman Welcome Reception

For the third consecutive year, Platt Student Performing Arts House and  Penn Art & Culture will be hosting the Penn Art & Culture Freshman Welcome Reception. The goal of this event is to i

Michael Leja - "Almanacs and the Image Campaign of 1840"

History of Art Colloquium

[image: The Tippecanoe Almanac for the Year 1841 (Philadelphia, 1840)

Welcome Back Meeting

Visual Studies students and faculty are invited to meet together to discuss courses and events in the upcoming year. 3:00-4:30pm, Room 113, Jaffe Building

TEDx Walnut St Women

Featuring talks from the global 2015 TEDWomen conference and influential speakers from the Philadelphia community, providing bold ideas that create momentum in how we think, live,