Emerging Scholars Symposium: “Visualizing Identity: Exploring Dimensions of the Self through Art” (graduate student sessions)

The 2021 Emerging Scholars Symposium will showcase research by current graduate students and other emerging scholars related to themes of art and identity throughout the history of visual and material culture. The symposium is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey” in partnership with UGA’s Association of Graduate Art Students. A Black Atlantan, Amos was a distinguished painter and printmaker known for examining identity in bold and colorful mixed-media paintings. View the program here.

Keynote speech by Adrienne Childs: February 18, 5:30 p.m. (register here)

Graduate student sessions: February 19 and 20, 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. (register here)

February 20 Schedule of Presentations

12:30 p.m. Welcome

12:45 p.m. “Between God and Man: Visualizing Identities of Power through the Portraiture of the Late Antique Roman Empire,” Kearstin Jacobson, University of Texas at Austin University

1:15 p.m. “Icon of the Hero: Tracing the Expression of Citizenship and Nationalism Through Representation of Simón Bolívar in South America to José Martí and Che Guevara in Cuba,” Gwen Unger, Columbia University

2 p.m. Break

2:15 p.m. “Tarsila do Amaral’s A Negra: The Portrait of the Black Woman and the Legacy of Colonialism in Brazil,” Caroline Dunker Fucci, University of Edinburgh

2:45 p.m. “At Home in the World: Domesticity in Indian Contemporary Art,” Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, University of California

3:15 p.m. “‘Other’ Play-Acting: Performance Art’s Colonialist Critique,” H.C. Arnold, University of California Riverside

4 p.m. Closing remarks