Presenters

Evelyn Char, University of California, Santa Cruz

Presentation Title: “Love and Death of the Miao peoples in the Miao Albums and the Battle Copper Prints”

Sophie Durbin, University of the Highlands and Islands

Presentation Title: “After Birth, Afterlife: Reimagining Maternal Mortality at Westness, Rousay, Orkney”

Hailey Kobrin, York University

Presentation Title: “Dinner and a Show: Food as a System of Affect”

Grace Kuipers, University of California, Berkeley

Presentation Title: “Martyrdom, Maya Cosmologies and the Ecological Perception of Death in Diego Rivera’s Song of the Earth”

Khushmi Mehta, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Presentation Title: “Eternal Love: Madhavanala and Kamakandala”

Yessica Porras, University of California, Berkeley

Presentation Title: “The High Choir of Santa Clara la Real: A Liminal Space of Devotional Love, Everyday Life, and Enclosure”

April Riddle, Ohio State University

Presentation Title: “Meet Me in Hell: Entropy8Zuper!’s Telematic Touch” Khushmi Mehta, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Nitara Tigre, California State University, Long Beach

Presentation Title: “The Visceral Witness: Coercive Affect in Teresa Margolles’ Abject Installations”

Wenshu Wang, University of Chicago

Presentation Title: “Disaster and Salvation: Reconsidering the Genre of Liumintu in Chinese Visual History”