In/Out of Place
19th Annual University of Oregon Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture
March 17 and 18, 2023
SCHEDULE
Friday, March 17
2-4pm PST
Tour of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art followed by social with conference guests and department graduate students
Saturday, March 18
Coffee: 9:00 – 9:30 am
Opening Remarks: 9:30 am
Panel 1: 9:45am – 11am: Object Histories
Margaret Culuris-Harp, UC Davis
“Beth Alpha Zodiac Mosaic: Jewish Diasporic Reaction to Roman Rule and Pagan Motifs”
Sienna Weldon, UC Davis
“Corporeal Conclusions: Reframing the History of the Fijian ‘Cannibal’ Fork”
Lauren Gonzales, Hunter College
“Making and Taking: Evaluating the Ethnographic Gaze in Graciela Iturbide’s Los Que Viven en la Arena”
Panel 2: 11:10am – 12:30pm: Peripheries-as-Centers
Jessica Braum, Temple University
“Cultural Hybridity and Cosmopolitan Iconography”
Weronika Malek-Lubawski, University of Southern California
“Between Moscow and Paris: Katarzyna Kobro, Władysław Strzemiński, and the development of modern art institutions in Łódź, 1921-1939”
Avani Sastry, University of Texas, Austin
“‘To belong to a disaspora…’: Crossing the Kala Pani and Theorizing Migrant’s Time Within Suchitra Mattai’s Hermeneutics”
Lunch: 12:30-2:00pm
Panel 3: 2:00-3:15pm: Rewriting Boundaries
Alejandra López-Oliveros, Rutgers University
“Whose Monument is This?: Iconoclast Inventory of the Chilean Insurrection”
Anika Zempleni, Hunter College
“29 Days that Shook the Black World: FESTAC Through the Lens of Ebony Magazine”
Alberta Madrid, University of Utah
“Reframing Borders and Boundaries: Appropriating the Florentine Codex as a U.S./Mexico Map”
Keynote: 3:30-4:30pm
Yuyang Zhang, “The Mirrorball in Westview”
Closing remarks: 4:30pm
Speaker
Yuyang Zhang (he/him) (b.1993 Wuhan, China) is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. His painting, photographic, and multi-media works investigate personal and cultural identities. His studio practice primarily navigates the experience of the Chinese diasporas and social-political issues through pop culture references, internet landscape, and temporal iconography.
Zhang holds a BS in Hospitality and Tourism Management from Purdue University and an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Portland, Oregon; Lafayette, Indiana, New Harmony, Indiana; Shenzhen, China; and Berlin, Germany. Zhang has been featured in publications, including Buckmxn Journal, BOOOOOOOM, The Drawers 2021, AINT-BAD, The Hand, and My View Only: A Monologue of Mobile Photography. Zhang’s work is part of the Regional Arts & Cultural Council 2022 Public Arts Collections.
University of Oregon Art History Student Association 