Friends of Art History Lecture: Amelia Jones

Amelia Jones, Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture, Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University will present a lecture entitled "Queering Performance and Performing Queer: The Histrionic Performances of Nao Bustamante" on Wednesday September 26th at 7:30 pm in Burke Science B-135.

Prof. Jones will also be available for a graduate student and faculty seminar gathering on September 26th at 2:30 in CNH 607b. The seminar will discuss Jones' essay "The Return of Feminism(s) and the Visual Arts, 1970/2009," published in Feminisms is still our name: seven essays on historiography and curatorial practices (Cambridge Scholars, 2010). You can obtain a pdf or printed copy of this essay from Debbie Lobban in CNH 619.

Prof. Jones' publications include the following books: Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp (1994), Body Art/Performing the Subject (1998), Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada (1994), and Self-Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (2006). She is also editor of Contemporary Art, 1945-2003 (2005) and Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2010).

Her visit to campus is sponsored by the Friends of Art History and the Graduate Studies and Feminist Research Program. Faculty and graduate students from History, GSFR and English and Cultural Studies have also been invited to the 2:30 seminar, which should last around an hour.