The 59th Annual UCLA Graduate Symposium will be held on October 18 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm at the UCLA Hammer Museum and features keynote speaker T.J. Demos. This year’s theme is entitled “In Crisis” and will examine how art history has responded to crisis through a range of time periods, regions, cultures, and mediums—from ancient to contemporary, global to local, and transnational to trans-historical.

This event is open to the public and all are welcome to attend. See event website for full details.

Event Program

9:30-10:00 am: Breakfast

10:00-10:10 am: Welcome

10:10-10:45 am: Keynote

10:45-11:05 am: Keynote Q&A

11:05-11:20 am: Break

Panel 1 | Outward

11:20-11:30 am: Clara Maria Apostolatos, Institute of Fine Arts

Compromising Frames: Institutional Accountability Appointed and Assumed in What Else Could We Talk About?

11:35-11:45 am: Ruslana Lichtzier, Northwestern University

Documenting Life and Destruction in al-Araqib: The Visual Epistemology of Palestine

11:50-12:00 pm: Monica Seiceneau, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Weaving the Threads of Crisis: The Art of Peter and Ritzi Jacobi in Cold War Romania

12:05-12:15 pm: Brian Young, University of California, Los Angeles

Migration in Bhutan : Art as Crisis Response

12:20-12:40 pm: Q & A

Panel 2 | Inward

1:45-1:55 pm: Nolan Boomer, Harvard University

American Architecture on Stage: Robert Stacy-Judd and the Aztec Hotel

2:00-2:10 pm: Shriya Dasgupta, Purdue University

Fyan de maa (Give me some gruel): Dissecting the Art of Resistanc

2:15-2:25 pm: Daniel Kuzinez, Hunter College

Enticed and Charmed Around the Pyres: On the Witch Hunts, Dosso Dossi’s Paintings of Sorceresses, and the Birth of Modernity

2:30-2:40 pm: Grace Wu, University of California, Davis

“Counter writing” Taiwanese identity through Xie Sui’s Huang Qing zhigong tu, 1751-75 and 2022

2:45-3:05 pm: Q&A

Panel 3 | Forward

3:20-3:30 pm: Francesca Butterfield, Princeton University

Arctic Survivance: Ada Blackjack’s Self-Portraits on Wrangel Island, 1923

3:35-3:45 pm: Jonathan Mandel, Princeton University

Circulating Solidarity: Towards a Profile of ‘America en la Mira’

3:45-3:55 pm: Jacob Sirhan, University of California, Santa Cruz

Repurposing Crisis: Exploring (im)possibility in Palestinian Futurities

4:05-4:20 pm: Q & A

4:20-4:30 pm: Concluding Remarks

This event is hosted by The Department of Art History as part of the Humanities Division within UCLA College and co-sponsored by UCLA Asia Pacific Center.

Sponsor(s): Hammer Museum at UCLA, Art History