Schedule
Thursday, October 29th
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Krannert Art Museum, Room 62
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL
A&D Visitor Series Lecture / Symposium Keynote
"Being Seen Listening: Photography, Pan-Africanism, and the Public Square"
Antawan I. Byrd
Assistant Professor of Art History at Northwestern University and an Associate Curator of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Friday, October 30th
PANELS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
9:00 - 9:30am - Registration
Art & Design Building, Room 331
408 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL
9:30 - 9:45am - Opening Remarks
9:45 - 11:10am - Colonialism and Biopolitics
"‘What Does the Declaration of Independence Mean to Us Today?’: Confronting American History in Declaration House (2024)"
Alicia Perkovich
University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
“Behind the Veil: René Tavares and the Colonial Grammar of Citizenship”
Tiago Alexandre Pereira Bernardo
Utrecht University
"Outliving Apocalypse: Contemporary Photography, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonial Time"
Jacki Marie Putnam
University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
"The Street Level Republic: John Lewis Krimmel’s Election Day in Philadelphia and the
Contradictions of Belonging in Early National Philadelphia"
Laini Farrare
University of Delaware
11:10 - 11:25am - Break
11:25 - 12:45pm - Graphic works as Resistance, Testimony and Memory
"Visual Violence and Confessional Crisis: Reformed Propaganda Engraving as an Artistic
Response in the Early Modern Low Countries (Sixteenth Century)"
Cassiopée Guillet [virtual]
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / UCLouvain
"Real Fiction and Fictional Realities: El Eternauta 1969"
Grace Nelson
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
"A Visual Archive of Crisis: Material Scarcity and Witnessing in Goya’s Disasters of War"
Lucas Fan
University of Kansas
“Documenting Fragments: Photojournalistic Investigations of Systemic Sexual Abuse”
Savannah Wills
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
12:45 - 2:00pm - Lunch
Art & Design Building, Room 312
2:00 - 3:25pm - Ecologies and Landscapes
"Archiving Absence in the Holocene: The Politics of Eco-Grief, Mourning, and Institutional Critique in Brandon Ballengée’s Frameworks of Absence Series"
Hannah Wier
Washington University in St. Louis
"The Tijuca Forest: Between Materiality and Immateriality in Félix-Émile Taunay's Artwork"
Iasmim Albuquerque Araujo
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
"Visualizing Crisis: Colonial Landscape and the Transformation of Devadasi Identity"
Thivya Anban
University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
"Snæfellsjökul for President: Icelandic Conceptualism and the Fight for the Rights of Nature"
Jillian Lepek
Washington University in St. Louis
3:25 - 3:40pm - Break/Snack
3:40 - 5:00pm - Performance and Documentation
"Ambiguous Borders: Central American Gesture and Performance"
Ayla Tanurhan
Tufts University
"Letícia Parente: Bodily Strategies in Resistance"
Jean Sierra-Ramirez
University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
"Vision, Video, Virus"
Hannah Brown
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
"Gesture, New Media, and Dissent in Argentina and Brazil, 1970s–1980s"
Catalina Cherñavvsky Sequeira
University of Texas at Austin
5:00pm - Concluding Remarks
6:00pm - Happy Hour
