Methodologies provides a discussion section for the VCS Forum series, which features guest speakers from a wide range of creative and scholarly fields and serves to open dialogues on contemporary issues in the visual arena. By incorporating in-depth analysis of readings furnished by the Forum speakers through in class analysis, students consider the author's theoretical allegiances, modes of argumentation, forms of evidence, presentation strategies, career choices, and the discursive field(s) into which their work intervenes. Past Forum speakers include: Indira Allegra, Gwen Allen, Nicole Archer, Karen Barad, Marin Berger, Kaucyila Brooke, Nao Bustamente, Judith Butler, Lisa Cartwright, Whitney Chadwick, Mel Chen, Christina Cogdell, Bridget R. Cooks, Douglas Crimp, Ann Cvetkovich, Allan deSouza, David Eng, Amy Franceschini, Elizabeth Freeman, David Getsy, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Ken Gonzales-Day, Jennifer Gonzalez, Rita Gonzalez, Donna Haraway, Shannon Jackson, Caren Kaplan, Corey Keller, Michael Kimmelman, Teresa de Lauretis, John Leaños, Elisabeth Lebovici, Pamela Lee, Simon Leung, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Lord, Larry Rinder, Martha Rosler, Gayle Rubin, Peggy M. Phelan, David Marriott, Richard Meyer, Trinh T Minh-ha, Nicolas de Monchaux, José Esteban Muñoz, Derek Conrad Murray, Soraya Murray, Erik Nakamura, Sandra Phillips, Katherine Sherwood, Kaja Silverman, Rebecca Solnit, Cherise Smith, Shawn Michelle Smith, Blake Stimson, Christopher Reed, Chris Vargas, Anne Middleton Wagner, Catherine Wagner, Linda Williams, Deborah Willis, Mabel O. Wilson, Greg Youmans, and Helen Zia.

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