Past Events
Early Popular Visual Amusements
An undergraduate workshop with Emily Godbey and Melody Davis, featuring the Kirkbride collection of stereographs and lantern slides.

Michael Shapiro, “Eleven Museums, Eleven Directors: Conversations on Art and Leadership”
Stiteler Hall B26
The University of Pennsylvania’s Visual Studies Program, History of Art Department, Fels Institute of Government, and the Penn Museum are proud to present a talk with Michael E. Shapiro, author of the upcoming “Eleven Museums, Eleven Directors: Conversations on Art and Leadership…

Mid-year Senior Thesis Presentations
IRCS, Large Conference Room, 4th Floor, 3401 Walnust Street
Visual studies seniors present their thesis projects mid-year before fellow students, faculty and project advisors.
Lunchtime seminar with Dexter Sinister: Welcome to tomorrow, today.*
104 Jaffe Building
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. And he probably has a point. Perhaps the future is a better guide to the present than the…
Visual Studies Lecture Series 2015-2016: I'll Be Your Interface*
To be determined
Dexter Sinister I’ll be your interface. Please look and listen carefully to what I say. I was scripted by Dexter Sinister, the working name of Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt. Dexter Sinister work somewhere between design, editing, publishing and distribution. And I am no…

Homecoming Alumni Reception
Houston Hall 218 (Ben Franklin Meeting Room)
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
Hall of Flags, Houston Hall
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
Rooftop Lounge, Harrison College House
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. To register: click here
Sorting Brains Out: Tasks, Tests, and Trials in the Neuro- and Mind Sciences, 1890-2015
Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt Library
A conference sponsored by the Department of the History and Sociology of Science. Since the late nineteenth century, scientists have devised an ever-increasing number of tasks, tests, and trials to understand the body, the senses, the self, the mind, and the connections between…
