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Mnemonic Aesthetics: Memory and Trauma in Art

11th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium
Organized by the Rutgers University Art History Graduate Student Organization (AHGSO)
April 22nd & April 23rd, 2021
via Zoom

Registration Required: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqceusrTgoHdF9A44e_pvBbfbPoUnbIcFG

 

Thursday, April 22, 2021

 

8:45 – 9:00 | Welcome

9:00 – 10:45 | COLLECTIVE MEMORY

  • Dareen Hussein, Ohio State University: Reversing the Gaze: Image, Archive, and Sounds of Resistance in Assia Djebar’s The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting
  • Michelle Donnelly, Yale University: Kiowas Moving Camp: The Negotiation of Memory in Stephen Mopope’s Anadarko Post Office Mural
  • Rachel Weiher, University of St. Thomas: 16th Century Epidemic Representations in Hybrid Documents and Their Modern Traumatic Impact in Mexico
  • Soyoon Ryu, University of Michigan: Traveling soil, plants reborn: on (re)materializing homeland in contemporary art of Tibetan diaspora

10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break

 11:00 – 12:45 | MATERIAL MEMORY

  • Mathilde Sauquet, Princeton University: Remembering the lost city of Thérouanne (1553): the role of re-used sculpture in the shaping of collective memories
  • Marina Avia Estrada, Columbia University: Ana Mendieta’s homecoming: recovering the Taíno pre-Columbian culture and fighting deculturation processes
  • Kearstin Jacobson, the University of Texas at Austin: “Ancient temples collapsed”: Combating the Traumatic Memory of Plague through Creative Remembrance in the Medieval Era
  • Emily Beaulieu, Tufts University: The Ancient City of Ani: Ruins of the Past for the Present

12:45 – 1:00 | Coffee break

1:00 – 2:45 | ENVIRONMENTAL MEMORY

  • Han Lu, Cornell University: Framing and Haunting: Sitio Eriazos in the Works of Voluspa Jarpa in the 1990s
  • Genevieve Westerby, University of Maryland: A Devastating Invasion: Trauma and Memory, Violence and Loss in Alfred Sisley’s Views of a Flooded Port-Marly
  • Isaiah Bertagnolli, University of Pittsburgh: No More Hiroshimas: Jacob Lawrence’s Hiroshima Series and the Anti-Nuclear Movement of the early 1980s
  • Liam Machado, Temple University: The Elegy in the Expanse: Water as Medium of Memory in Afterlives of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

2:45 – 3:00 | Coffee Break

3:00 – 4:30 | CHERYL FINLEY, SPELMAN COLLEGE

Black Art Futures

 

Friday, April 23, 2021

 

8:45 – 9:00 | Welcome

9:00 – 10:45 | PORTRAITURE

  • Chen Jiang, Columbia University: Portraits, History, and Memory: Zenken kojitsu by Kikuchi Yōsai (1788-1878)
  • Qiuyang (Lynette) Shen, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: A Body in Places: The Haunting Memory of the Nuclear in Eiko Otake’s Spectral Performance
  • Jennie Waldow, Stanford University: Preserving the Ephemeral: Depictions of the AIDS Crisis in Allen Ruppersberg’s Study for Bookmark
  • Ricardo Chavez, University of Arizona: Portraits, Power, and the Digital Collective Consciousness: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Nivel de Confianza/Level of Confidence and the Ayotzinapa 43

10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break

11:00 – 12:45 | PERSONAL TRAUMA

  • Deborah Feller, Rutgers University: The Transubstantiation of Trauma into Art: The Lamentation as Embodiment of Personal Grief
  • Chloë Courtney, New York University: Stitching Worlds: Teresa Margolles’s Embroidered Memorials
  • Tony Yanzhang Cui, University of Maryland: Assalito: Narratives of Pedagogic Violence in Denys Calvaert’s Bolognese Studio
  • Martha Wilde, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Memory and (Dis)location in Mona Hatoum’s Present Tense

12:45 – 1:00 | Coffee break

1:00 – 2:45| MEMORIES OF VIOLENCE

  • Jordan Wade Rhodes, University of Missouri: Katharina Sieverding Reflects on the State
  • Robert Geilfuss, New York University: Sam Gilliam After April 4, 1968
  • Torey Akers, Hunter College: Pedestal Work
  • Kevin Hong, Yale University: The Silences of “The Scourged Back”: The Emergence of an Icon and its Photographic Shadows

2:45 – 3:00 | Coffee Break

3:00 – 4:30 | DEBORAH WILLIS, NYU

The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

 

Organized by the AHGSO Symposium Committee: Swathi Gorle, Emma Osle, Julia Katz, William Green, Benjamin Farr, Suyog Prajapati, Grace Kim, Pritha Mukherjee, Diana Iturralde, and Sara Varanese