Visiting Scholar

Lisa Wymore

Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Lisa Wymore gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Lisa Wymore completed her graduate study at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, an Outstanding Achievement Award, and a Moe Family Award for her creativity. After graduating with an M.F.A. in Dance in 1998, she moved to Chicago and continued her career as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She was a faculty member...

Rocío Zambrana

Professor of Philosophy at University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras
Rocío Zamabrana gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on May 6, 2019. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Rocío Zamabrana teaches and writes about the epistemic and historical-material bases of capitalist modernity and its racial/gender order, specifically from decolonial thought and praxis, particularly in the context of financial capitalism in the Caribbean. She is currently writing a book entitled Metamorphosis of Value: Epistemic Protocols in the Longue Durée, which traces...

Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher & Cultural Critic
Slavoj Žižek was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times...