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Visual + Material Culture Research Seminar Series: A Finer and More Certain Mirror: Painting the Body in the Nineteenth Century

Nikki Georgopulos, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, UBC.
This interdisciplinary seminar series is for anyone with interests in visual and material culture across different departments at UBC and beyond. The seminar provides an opportunity to share research and exchange ideas, usually followed by conversations over a drink at Koerner’s Pub. Open to students, staff, faculty and community members in and around UBC.
The seminars will be held in-person at MOA.

Wednesday Noon Hours: Visions of Light and Dark

The program begins with Reena Esmail’s ethereal and tender Saans (Breath), with its Indian-inspired improvisatory writing. This is followed by Points of Light by UBC’s Dorothy Chang, commissioned by the Trio for its 20th anniversary, inspired by the image of a triangle. The program ends with Dmitri Shostakovich’s haunting and devastating Trio in E minor, […]