On Friday, February 8 from 12:30-2:30pm, the Visual Culture Workshop is pleased to host "Looking Critically Now," an informal lunchtime symposium of graduate student works-in-progress. (Lunch starts at 12:30, discussion at 1.)

Conceived as a launch to our 2019 conference season, the event features graduate students presenting presenting 8-10 minutes each of their work in progress. These brief provocations will draw from seminar papers, creative projects, and dissertation chapters! After all students present, we'll divide into small groups to offer detailed feedback, questions, and encouragement. Presenters will be bringing the group their live questions: issues they're still grappling with / excited about in the work. Other VCW members and guests will meet each project on its own terms, even as we think across projects about shared themes animating our work as scholars of visual culture.