INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES
IN THE VISUAL ARTS
The third lecture of the "On the Anthropocene" lecture series be held on Saturday, November 27 (12–2pm EDT). The lecture is free and open to the public.
A note from President George Smith on his dear friend and longtime IDSVA faculty member, Sylvère Lotringer.
Please join us in New York City. This year’s featured Commencement Speakers are famed Mexican poet, Carmen Boullosa, and contemporary American sculptor, Mel Edwards.
Terrence Phearse is a lens based artist and independent curator. He is an Assistant Museum Manager at Fotografiska New York and Editorial Director at Musée Photo Magazine.
IDSVA is preparing to hold our upcoming New York City residency in person, from Jan 2–9, 2022. We will have a vaccine mandate for all participants.
The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts is proud to host the second part of the year-long symposium: On the Anthropocene: Either/Or, launched in spring 2021, with a series of lectures by renowned theorists and philosophers.
PACT 2021: The 12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT). The conference is being held at Volcanoes National Park, Hawaiʻi. September 9-11, 2021
We are saddened by the passing of Jean-Luc Nancy (July 26, 1940--August 23, 2021), one of the most important French philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. During our residency in Paris in 2018 and again in the summer of 2020, he delivered lectures concerning art, community, ecology, and contemporary society.