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 19 Schedule of presentations

12:30 p.m. Welcome and opening remarks

12:45 p.m. “Artistic Sisterhood: Reimagining Gender and Identity in Domestic Space,” Victoria Horrocks, Oxford University

1:15 p.m. “Reiterations: Contemporary Photography and Rewriting Misappropriations of Identity,” Jessica Orzulak, Duke University

2 p.m. Break

2:15 p.m. “American Colonization Society: Identity and Agency,” Annie Poslusny, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:45 p.m. “A Watchful Archive: Self-Fashioning in the Photographs of the WPA Slave Narratives Collection,” Julia Hamer-Light, University of Delaware

3:30 p.m. Closing remarks