Graduate Student Conferences, Papers and Publications

Conferences
Aleca Le Blanc
Session co-chair: “Representations of Brazil and Shifting Identities”, CAA Annual Meeting, Chicago (2010)
Jennifer Reynolds
"Following This Wall: The Politics of Visual Control and Gordon Matta-Clark's 'Made in America,'" Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (March 2008)
Virginia Solomon
Co-chair, "How is "Queer" Art Relational?", with Robert Summers, QCA lunchtime panel, CAA (February 2010)
Invited discussant, "Queer Relational," -- empyre -- a soft-skinned place (http://www.subtle.net/empyre/) (July 2009)
Panelist, "Talk it Out," in conjunction with Tainted Love (June 2009)
Curatorial Projects
Virginia Solomon
Tainted Love, curated with Steven Lam for Visual AIDS (June 4 – June 28, 2009)
Papers
Catie Besancon
“The Romanesque Portals of Moissac, Souillac and Beaulieu: A Response to the Papal Reform Movement and Popular Heresy”at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England (July 13, 2009)
Hyunjung Cho
“Apocalyptic Impulse in Metabolism’s Future”at International conference Inter-Asia Cultural Typhoon held at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (July 3 – 4, 2009)
Jason Hill
"Caught in the Act: Re-Thinking the History of Photojournalism," at the Chateau la Bretesche in Missillac, France (Summer 2009)
“Radiophotography and PM Daily’s Pictorial Dismantling of Photographic Objectivity” at UC Santa Barbara Conference, The Limits of Knowledge: Doubt, Skeptcism, and the Visual (Feb 20, 2009)
Rika Hiro
“Tokyo’s (Un)bearable Lightness of Being: Chim Pom and Issues of Subjectivity in Post-Superflat Art” at The Cornell University Dept. of the History of Art Annual Graduate Symposium, Imag(in)ing Asia and the Pacific: Emerging Visualities and Art Perspectives (Feb 20 -21, 2009)
“Between Presence and Absence of Video Earth’s ‘What is Photography?’” at “Spectacle East Asia: Translocation, Publicity, and Counterpublics” Visual and Cultural Studies Graduate Conference at University of Rochester (April 10 -11, 2009)
Virignia Moon
Nation, Identity, and Politics among Contemporary Koreans at the Association for Asian Studies in Chicago (March 26-29, 2009)
Kira Shewfelt
US and Conflicts: Art History and the Formation of Political emory University of College London in Sussex, Art History (March 3 -4, 2009)
"Yes We Can: Political Agency and Artists for Obama" at the Centre for Cultural History in Contemporary Societies, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, in mid-May. The conference was entitled: Culturhisto 2009:Representing Political Figures in Mass Media (XVIIIth – XXIst century)
Candace Weddle
“Making sense of Emperor Worship: The Sensory Experience of Sacrafice at the Temple Domitian in Ephsesus” on the at panel “Sacred Architecture: archaeological and anthropological perspectives”the Association of Social Anthropologist of the UK and Commonwealth 2009 Anthropological and Archaeological Imaginations:Past, Present and Future (April 6 – 9, 2009)
Press
Virginia Solomon
Arts in Review, Holland Cotter, Review of Tainted Love, June 19, 2009
Publications
Jason Hill
"The Camera and the 'Physiognomic Auto-da-fe': Photography, History, and Race in Two Recent Works by Ken Gonzales-Day," X-TRA, Spring 2009.
Aleca Le Blanc
“Building the Tropical World of Tomorrow: The Construction of Brasilidade at the 1939 New York World’s Fair,” in Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, University of New Mexico. Forthcoming, Summer 2009.
Virignia Moon
"LOVE/AIDS/RIOT/LOVE?" with Steven Lam, in exhibition catalog for Tainted Love, June 2009
“Politics of Queer Sociality: Music as Material Metaphor,” Exhibition catalog, 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, August 2008
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