Symposium runs March 13 – 14th, 2015
Keynote: T.J. Demos (Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz)
Friday, March 13
10:00am: Opening Remarks
10:30am: Morning Session
Hye-Shim Yi (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles)
Solid, But Not Bounded: Garden Rocks in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) China
Natalie Massong (MA, University of Victoria)
The Symbol and the City: Identity Creation around the Image of Saint Petronius in Early Modern Bologna
1:00pm: Afternoon Session
Regan Shrumm (MA, University of Victoria)
Resisting Colonialism: The Continuation of Textiles by the Cowichan Nation
Ana Robles (MA, University of British Columbia)
The Use of Language and Circularity of Time in the Book Where the Southern Sea Beats (1986) by the Author Manlio Argueta
2:45pm: Keynote Speech by T.J. Demos (UC Santa Cruz)
06:00pm: Opening Reception
AHVA Gallery
Room 1001, Audain Art Centre
Saturday, March 14
11:00am: Morning Session
Darren Fleet (PhD, Simon Fraser University)
Climate Aesthetics and the Hyperobject: A Theory of Cultural Intervention
Danijela Zutic (PhD, McGill University)
Confronting eternity of the world; according to whose creator?
01:30pm: Afternoon Session
Michaela Rife (PhD, University of Toronto)
Plate and Ore: Tracing Mining Photography through Timothy O’Sullivan and Carleton Watkins
Dario Ré (MA, Concordia University)
Myoarchitecture: Ecological Wisdom and the Built Environment
04:00pm: Closing Remarks
The 38th Annual UBC AHVA Graduate Symposium Committee proudly thanks our donors for their generous contributions: Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (UBC), Department of History (UBC), Faculty of Arts HSS Grant (UBC), Faculty of Graduate Studies Dean’s Office (UBC), Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Museum of Anthropology (UBC), Department of Asian Studies (UBC), Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic (UBC).