10/14/2024
Next up: The Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium, 2024, the description of which could not be more timely:
"In the spring of 2024, student protests in support of Palestine on college campuses across North America were met with violent suppression. Sanctioned by university administrators and carried out by militarized police forces, these actions laid bare key contradictions within the academy, engendering a sense of crisis across campuses domestically and internationally. While crisis persists as a state of abstraction, artistic and scholarly responses render it material. With this in mind, we ask: What is an art history of crisis?; What does art history offer us in crisis?; How does art respond to crisis?; Can art engender crisis?; What role has crisis played in shaping the study and creation of art?; And what are our roles as scholars?"
Many thanks to UCLA grads for organizing this!
My keynote, “A Hole the Size of Poetry: On the Crisis of Speech and Meaning in the Arts Today,” will address the current context of university and museum censorship and the crisis of academic freedom and speech in relation to genocide in Gaza.
Hope to see you in LA!
