WELCOME 10:15AM - 10:30AM
Session 1: Undefined Geographies 10:30AM - 12:15PM
Homecoming: The exhibition Eight Scandinavian Cubists and Scandinavian women artists’ efforts to negotiate their return from Paris - Aisha Lovise Maud Borno, University of Cambridge
Rituals of Forgetting: Paulo Nazareth and Black Collective Memory - Jennifer Sales, University of Texas, Austin
Gelare Khoshgozaran: Constructed Places - Kit Bernal, University of Denver
BREAK 12:15PM - 12:30PM
Session 2: New Forms of Knowledge 12:15PM - 12:30PM
The Warriors’ Circle of Honor: Visualizing Native (American) Narratives - Tess McCoy, Florida State University
Reclaiming Indigenous sovereignty and relational knowledge: Coming to Terms with Edgar Calel’s The Echo of an Ancient Form of Knowledge (Ru k’ox k’ob’el jun ojer etemab’el) - Maria Fernanda Mancera, Tufts University
**The Hunt: Local Embodied Knowledge as an Assertion of Rights in Duane Linklater and Brian Jungen’s Film “Modest Livelihood” - Madalen Claire Benson, University of California, Santa Cruz
Matt Manalo and the Renunciation of White Love - Kathryn Cua, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BREAK 2:15PM - 2:30PM
Session 3: Unstable Identities 2:30PM - 4:15PM
A Diasporic Artist’s Performance of Passing: Dissecting Tseng Kwong Chi’s Appropriation of the Mao Suit - Jacob Zhicheng Zhang, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Transitional Art: Be(coming)-Asylum Seeker: The Art of African Asylum seekers and refugees in Israel - Hannutal Sadan, Tel Aviv University
An Examination of “In-Betweenness”: Borders, Racial Divisions, and the Indigenous Diaspora - Emma Oslé, Rutgers University
Hungarian Israeli Artists in Quest of Identity - Mariann Farkas, Bar-Ilan University
BREAK 4:15PM-4:30PM
KEYNOTE: EMILY HUE - 4:30PM - 6:00PM