# Walter Hopps Colloquium

**Source**: https://arthistory.ucla.edu/walter-hopps-colloquium/
**Parent**: https://arthistory.ucla.edu/undergraduates-major-and-minor/

## With funding from the Walter Hopps Chair, an ongoing series of lectures, conversations, and events in modern and contemporary art.

### 2025-2026

### Upcoming Colloquia

TBA

### Past Colloquia

Exhibition tour and study day, [**How to Be a Guer****rilla Girl**](https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/how-to-be-a-guerrilla-girl-exhibit-tour-on-february-13/) With “Käthe Kollwitz” and curators Zanna Gilbert and Kristin Juarez\
For all UCLA Art History faculty, graduate students, staff, and AHUSA/art history undergraduate majors at the GRI/Getty Museum\
*February 13, 2026*

UCLA Art and Art History Joint Study Day, [**MONUMENTS** exhibition](https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/monuments-at-moca/), MOCA Geffen and The Brick, Los Angeles, tour and discussion with co-curators Bennett Simpson, Hamza Walker, and exhibition artist and UCLA Art faculty member Cauleen Smith\
*January 10, 2026*

**Jennifer Sichel**, Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, lecture and book launch, [*Criticism Without Authority: Gene Swenson’s and Jill Johnston’s Queer Practices*](https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/walter-hopps-colloquium-with-jennifer-sichel-november-17-2025/)\
*November 17, 2025*

**Julian Myers**, Independent Art Historian and Editor, lecture, [“Sadism on Tour, or: Kienholz at Documenta”](https://arthistory.ucla.edu/event/walter-hopps-colloquium-with-julian-myers-october-20-2025/)\
*October 20, 2025*