Translating Home: Views From the Diaspora 

12th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium  

Organized by the Rutgers University Art History Graduate Student Organization (AHGSO), Cosponsored by Rutgers Global Asias

Symposium Date: April 22nd, 2022, via Zoom 

Keynote Speaker: Emily Hue, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside 

The concept of home is unstable, bearing countless interpretations of physical and abstract places.  Diasporic and transnational identities are particularly susceptible to the uneasy tension produced by slippages of stable meaning. Framed around both the abstract and material notion of home, Translating  Home: Views From the Diaspora aims to interpret practices that span borders, fostering discussion that marks the complexity of real and lived experiences of those working in a transnational context. 

Please register using the following link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYof–prT8pGdRI2_zttrNGD1UnVcHHYA19

Symposium Program:

Welcome 10:15am-10:30am

10:30 am – 12:15 pm | Session 1: Undefined Geographies 

Aisha Lovise Maud Bornø, University of Cambridge: Homecoming: The exhibition Eight Scandinavian Cubists and Scandinavian women artists’ efforts to negotiate their return from Paris

Jennifer Sales, University of Texas, Austin: Rituals of Forgetting: Paulo Nazareth and Black Collective Memory 

Kit Bernal, University of Denver: Gelare Khoshgozaran: Constructed Places

Break 12:15-12:30am

12:30 am – 2:15 pm | Session 2: New Forms of Knowledge

Tess McCoy, Florida State University: The Warriors’ Circle of Honor: Visualizing Native (American) Narratives

María Fernanda Mancera, Tufts 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)

Madalen Claire Benson, University of California, Santa Cruz: The Hunt: Local Embodied Knowledge as an Assertion of Rights in Duane Linklater and Brian Jungen’s Film “Modest Livelihood”

Kathryn Cua, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Matt Manalo and the Renunciation of White Love

Break 2:15-2:30pm

2:30-4:15 pm | Session 3: In Betweenness, unstable identities

Jacob Zhicheng Zhang, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: A Diasporic Artist’s Performance of Passing: Dissecting Tseng Kwong Chi’s Appropriation of the Mao Suit 

Hamutal Sadan, Tel Aviv University: Transitional Art: Be(coming)-Asylum Seeker: The Art of African Asylum seekers and refugees in Israel

Emma Oslé, Rutgers University: An Examination of “In-Betweenness”: Borders, Racial Divisions, and the Indigenous Diaspora 

Mariann Farkas, Bar-Ilan University: Hungarian Israeli Artists in Quest of Identity

Break 4:15-4:30 pm

4:30-6pm | Keynote: Emily Hue