Whitney Independent Study Program: Critical Studies Symposium
Thurs, May 23, 2019
5–9:30 pm
ISP Symposium, 2018. Photograph by Filip Wolak
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The Critical Studies Symposium is an evening-long event during which each of the six participants from this year's Whitney Independent Study Critical Studies Program presents a short paper on their current research. Two discussants respond to these papers.
This program is free but registration is required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Introduction by Lindsay Caplan, PhD Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University
Session I
5–7 pm
Discussant: Jennifer A. González, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ayanna Dozier
Hustlin’ Fabulations: Mapping Out Memory and Labor Through Narrative Restraint in Contemporary Black Experimental Film
Michelle Maydanchik
Art, Protest, and Spectacle in Putin’s Russia, 2008-2012
John Arthur Peetz
Are You Okay?: Teiji Furuhashi, HIV/AIDS, Art, and Activism in Japan
Session II
7:30–9:30 pm
Discussant: Nora Alter, Professor, Film and Media Arts, Temple University
Tatiane S. Santa Rosa
The Undoing of Celebrations: Art and the Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil
Patricio Orellana
Time Outside the Forms of Cinema. On Oscar Bony’s Films
Hannah Maier-Katkin
Playing with Invisibility