Press Release

First Annual UCSD Art History Graduate Student Conference
"What is Public Culture?"
Saturday, April 5, 2008
9:30 am to 6 pm
Pepper Canyon Hall Room 109, UCSD Campus
Event is Free and Open to the Public

The Art History graduate students of the Visual Arts Department of the University of California San Diego are pleased to present their first graduate student conference, entitled "What is Public Culture?" Papers by graduate students from a wide range of universities and scholarly fields will be presented interrogating the nature and occurrence of public culture. A welcome presentation will begin at 10 am, with the morning panel shortly to follow. The afternoon panels will begin at 1 pm and 3 pm. UCSD Visual Arts faculty Norman Bryson, Grant Kester and Kyong Park will serve as respondents. At 5 pm, Susan Buck-Morss, Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government at Cornell University, will present the keynote address. Refreshments will be served during the conference, and a reception will follow Dr. Buck-Morss' presentation.

Please contact Laura Hoeger at visarts-conference@ucsd.edu or visit http://visartsconference.blogspot.com/ for further information.