Keynote address by Dr. Esra Akcan, Cornell University
Please join the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) for the 41st Annual UBC AHVA Graduate Symposium, Tracing Erasure. The symposium invites the exploration of art and architecture as sites of intervention in personal, social, and cultural narratives and memories. This collaborative project seeks to examine sites of struggle and potential transformation, where art and architecture, as loci of memory, challenge notions of historical stability and linearity. The duality of creation and destruction that accompanies cultural change may not be new, but a rapidly globalizing and shifting world brings renewed urgency to questions of how we as individuals and societies conceive, and have conceived, of ourselves, and our histories.
This symposium and its concurrent exhibition follow the university’s mandates to create a rich academic environment and to foster intellectual exchange among graduate students by providing a unique opportunity to engage in questions concerning cultural mediations within visual culture and the histories of art and architecture.
Multipurpose Room in the Liu Institute for Global Issues
6476 NW Marine Drive
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
PROGRAM
Friday, March 9, 2018
| 10:30am | Refreshments
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| 10:45am | Welcome and Opening Remarks
AHVA Graduate Symposium Organizing Committee
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| 11:00am | Session I
Lucas Kling MA, University of British Columbia Traumatic Memory and Memorial Culture: Loss, Absence, and Commemoration in the 21st Century Memorial Museum Felicity Hamer PhD, Concordia University Killing Me Softly: Photographic Remembrance and Melancholia Zhe Dong PhD, University of Virginia The Forming of Time: Reconsidering Iconic Semiotics through Mao Zedong’s Figurative Representations
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| 12:30pm | Lunch
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| 1:30pm | Session II
Emily PutnamPhD, Carleton University Norman Takeuchi and Emma Nishimura: Artistic Practice that Un-Historicizes the Japanese Canadian Internment in a Post-Redress Reality Minah Lee MA, Simon Fraser University Third Skin: The Borderless Surface of Migrants’ Creative Resistance Noni BrynjolsonPhD, University of California San Diego Art against Displacement: The Production of Visibility in Mapping, Storytelling, and Community-Organizing Projects
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| 3:00pm | Break
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| 3:15pm | Session III
Michelle Lorna NahaneeSquamish Nation MA, Simon Fraser University Playing Postcolonial: a decolonizing activity book for the woke and the weary Astara Light PhD, Cornell University Longing for the Unseen: Connecting to a Balinese Imagined Community through Offerings and Contemporary Art
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| 4:15pm | Break
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| 4:30pm | Keynote
Dr. Esra Akcan Associate Professor, Cornell University Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship, and a New Ethics of Hospitality
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| 6:00pm | Closing Remarks
Dr. Saygin Salgirli Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia |
We thank our donors for their generous contributions:
Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies
Department of Anthropology
Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
Department of Asian Studies
Faculty of Arts HSS Grant
Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Dean’s Office
Institute for European Studies
Liu Institute for Global Issues
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Museum of Anthropology
Provost and Vice President Academic
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs