The CCA Graduate Program in Visual & Critical Studies Presents

2024 VCS Spring Symposium

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The CCA Campus is situated on the unceded territories of the Ohlone peoples.

Katayoun Bahrami

Paulina Félix Cunillé

Evelynn Harra

Eloise Seda

Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle 

Yiliu Teng

Program Schedule 

(Full Program w/ abstracts & bios here) 

10:30 Opening Remarks: Việt Lê and Elizabeth Travelslight

10:45 Panel 1: Modes of Perception and Sensory Transition in New Media

      Discussant: Lian Ladia 

Paulina Félix Cunillé
Fostering a Percussive Non-hierarchical Community: NIC Kay, Gabriel Bata, and Jordan Davis

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Yiliu Teng
The Six Realms of Reincarnation to a Game: The Impact of Modern Technology on the Perception of Buddhism

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Evelynn Harra
Documentary Synesthesia; as a Critical Method 

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11:30 Comments and Q&A

11:45 Break

12:00 Panel 2: Creative Futures: Critical Perspectives on Resistance and Representation

      Discussant: Nilgun Bayraktar

Katayoun Bahrami
The Unveiled Gaze: Poetic Resistance of Iranian Goddesses

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Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle
Alternative Grammars of Representation and Refusal: On Chloë Bass’s Obligation to Others Holds Me in My Place

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Eloise Seda
On Shifting Sands: Land and Image in Mariana Ramos Ortiz’s Caña Gorda

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12:45  Comments and Q&A

1:00 Alumnx Award Introduction: VCS Class of 2024

1:15 Alumnx Award Presentation: Elena Gross (Class of 2016)

1:30 Closing Remarks and Reception: Việt Lê

Light fare will be served at the Reception and Celebration.

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Full program (w/ abstracts & bios here)