Astral Poetics

Visual Studies Graduate Conference
University of California, Irvine

April 7 – 8, 2022

Humanities Gateway conference room 1030 and streaming via Zoom

About the conference

The two-day conference features keynote speakers, short graduate student presentations, and a panel discussion with a diverse group of discussants engaging with the conference theme. Hosted by the UCI Visual Studies Ph.D. Program 2020 cohort graduate students: Ileana de Giuseppe, Robert Hayden, Zachary Korol-Gold, Luis Eduardo Serna, and Sara Sisun.

astralpoeticsconference@gmail.com

UC, a national leader in sustainability, has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2025, becoming the first major university to accomplish this achievement. In solidarity with the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative (CNI), the 2022 Visual Studies Graduate Conference addresses its social cost of carbon by contributing to Unite to Light, a UC-initiated non-profit project that provides low-cost solar light and power to those without electricity across the globe.