Mel Y. Chen (UC Berkeley), “Arts of Agitation”

Presented as part of the Art and Media Project’s Spring 2019 series,

 Gender Technologies and Intersectional Code.

Mel Y. Chen is Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at U.C. Berkeley and Director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. Mel is also an affiliate of the Center for Race and Gender, the Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Science, the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, and the Haas Disability Studies and LGBTQ Citizenship Research Clusters.

Dr. Chen’s lecture is presented as part of the Art and Media Project, a multi-year series of lectures and publications organized by Dr. Pamela M. Lee and the History of Art Department.

Upcoming Art and Media Project events

• Weds, April 17 - Aria Dean, “Body Double”
• Tues, April 23 - Julia Bryan-Wilson, “Louise Nevelson: Technologies of Drag”
• Tues, April 30 - Candice Hopkins, “Warped wefts and Short Circuits”