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SUMMARY:VMCC Talk with Salar Mameni—Blood of Tulips
DESCRIPTION:What counts as life in the midst of war\, genocide\, and planetary destruction? What is death and how do ideas around martyrdom and sacrifice contribute to our understanding of sacred ecologies? In this talk\, Mameni engages these questions based on research for his second book project focusing on ecologies of war and martyrdom in the SWANA region. \nABOUT THE SERIES\nThe Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) is an annual lecture series that brings cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad range of subjects related to visual and media culture. The series is co-sponsored with the graduate programs in the History of Art & Visual Culture (HAVC) and the Arts Division.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Attend in person.\n– Porter College D245\n– FREE and open to the public.\n—\nThis program is open to the public consistent with state and federal law.\n—\nSave\, download\, and share the event flyer here: \nimage: blood of tulips by salar\n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-mameni/
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SUMMARY:VMCC Talk with Jaleh Mansoor—Political Agency in The Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Jaleh Mansoor will draw upon recent Italian Marxist Feminist perspectives on ecology and discourses on the Anthropocene to question how Italian feminist analyses of invisible labor came to be elided with the question of a wider\, post anthropocentric ecological horizon. Jaleh Mansoor is a writer and an associate professor of Art History at the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver\, where she teaches modern and contemporary art history with an emphasis on Post WWII European Art. Her areas of interest\, in addition to art and its histories\, include Materialist Formalism and Marxist Feminism. Mansoor’s first monographic book\, Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia\, was published by Duke UP in 2016.  \nHer latest primary project\, titled after Picabia’s eponymous homage to a passage in Marx’s Philosophical and Economic Manuscripts of 1844\, is Universal Prostitution: A Counter History of Modernism\, published by Duke University Press in May 2025. It traces the historical and structural entwinement of aesthetic and real (or concrete) abstraction—defined as the extraction of labor power valorized by transactional exchange on the market—over 20th-century art to offer a comprehensive account of the political-economic forces that motivated modernist abstraction and the advent of post-humanism.\n \nABOUT THE SERIES\nThe Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) is an annual lecture series that brings cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad range of subjects related to visual and media culture. The series is co-sponsored with the graduate programs in the History of Art & Visual Culture (HAVC) and the Arts Division.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Attend online.\n– Register here to receive the Zoom link.\n– FREE and open to the public.\n—\nThis program is open to the public  consistent with state and federal law. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/jaleh-mansoor-political-agency-in-the-anthropocene/
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SUMMARY:VMCC Talk with Maggie Cao—Sepia: Biotic Media and Ocean Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Sepia is a term used to describe inks of a rich\, brown color\, but few know that this artistic usage is taken from the animal world\, where sepia refers to a genus of cuttlefish—a nod to the long history of extracting melanin fluid from cephalopods for drawing and writing. This talk uses cuttlefish ink as a vehicle for rethinking human-ocean relations in the mid nineteenth century\, tracing flows between Victor Hugo’s maritime drawings made in the Channel Islands to paleontological discoveries and scientific illustrations on nearby coastlines. During the nineteenth century\, the expansion of fisheries and the growth of marine biology fostered public interest in the strangeness of cephalopods\, or “devil fish\,” whose inkiness was associated with artistic creation. Experiments with biotic media\, the talk argues\, were efforts to conceptualize the nonhuman environment of the ocean. \nThis event is presented as part of the Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) Series.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Located in Porter College Rm. D245\n—\nPARKING\n– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event.\n– Parking is by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Refer to TAPS for more parking information.\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-maggie-cao/
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SUMMARY:VMCC Series: Yiman Wang
DESCRIPTION:In a lecture delivered by UC Santa Cruz Professor Yiman Wang\, this talk delves into Mao-era moving image culture that featured experimentation with public health\, horticulture\, and animal husbandry to unpack what cinematic experiments were developed\, how scientific experiments were conducted\, and in what ways they were intended to intertwine with the nation-wide experiment with rebuilding the new socialist human’s psyche and a new socio-political world. The talk also explores why such conjoined experiments often fell apart\, what one might gain by recentering the unruly human and more-than-human “raw material” that were experimented on\, and ultimately\, how the environmental turn in media studies could benefit from a study of socialist trifold cinematic-scientific-socio-political experimentations.\n—\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nYiman Wang (Ph.D.\, Graduate Program in Literature\, Duke University) is Professor and Chair of Film & Digital Media at University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is author of Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai\, Hong Kong and Hollywood (University of Hawaii Press 2013)\, and To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong’s Cross-Media World (University of California Press 2024). She has published numerous articles in journals and edited volumes on topics of socialist environmental media\, feminist media histories\, ethnic border-crossing stardom\, eco-cinema\, Chinese cinema\, independent documentary\, film remakes and adaptations. She is editor of a special issue of Feminist Media Histories on Asian Feminist Media (2019)\, co-editor of an InFocus Dossier on Queering Asian Media in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (2023)\, co-editor of Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion (2025)\, associate editor of Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, and co-editor of the Global East Asian Screen Cultures book series published by Bloomsbury.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Located in Porter College Rm. D245\n—\nPARKING\n– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event.\n– Parking is by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Refer to TAPS for more parking information.\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-series-yiman-wang/
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