VSRI Lecture by Emmanuel Alloa

Event details Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026 Time: 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Location: Online Type: Lecture / Talk / Workshop Campus: University Park Campus Department: Campus Humanities, Visual Studies Research Institute (VSRI) Audience: Students, Alumni, Faculty/Staff About this event Emmanuel Alloa is Chair in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the University of Fribourg. His work is located at the intersection of phenomenology, contemporary philosophy, visual studies and media aesthetics. He currently serves as Vice-President for the German Society of Aesthetics. Among his publications: Dynamis of the Image. Moving Images in a Global World (coed. with C. Cappelletto, De Gruyter 2020); Looking Through Images. A Phenomenology of Visual Media (Columbia UP 2021); This Obscure Thing Called Transparency: Politics and Aesthetics of a Contemporary Metaphor (Leuven UP 2022) and The Share of Perspective (Routledge, 2024). His latest monograph is on time in contemporary art, titled ‘Le contemporain, l’intempestif et l’imminent (2026). RSVP: https://usc.zoom.us/meeting/register/qWDjmeGyQMSVS9cxaCt8Dw#/registration Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/vsri-lecture-by-emmanuel-alloa