The CCA Graduate Program in Visual & Critical Studies Presents:

The 2025 VCS Spring Symposium  

Register Here: It's Free!

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

This year's graduates:

Giorgie O’Keeffe DePaolis

Sam Hiura 

Sloane Holzer

Yunfei Hua

Vanessa Pérez Winder

PROGRAM SCHEDULE:

11 AM        Welcome and Opening Remarks: Jasmin Darznik and Cindy Bello

11:10 AM   Panel I: Contested Sites—Bodies, Cities, Families

                   Discussant: Jasmin Darznik

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Sloane Holzer

Raised & Pink: On Scar Tissue, Trans Surgery, and White Womanhood

Giorgie O’Keeffe DePaolis

San Franciscan Aesthetics of Belonging

Sam Hiura 

Strange Silence: What Accumulates in Kenneth Tam’s sump

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12 PM        Panel I: Q&A and Discussion

12:15 PM   BREAK

12:25 PM    Panel II: The Pull of History, the Shape of Sovereignty

                     Discussant: Jacqueline Francis   

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Yunfei Hua 

Unwilling Equilibrium: A Study of Chinese Fanart of Disco Elysium

Vanessa Pérez Winder 

Sickness, Sovereignty, and Sodomite Symbolism: Javi Vargas’ Taqui Onqoy, Chuquichinchay, y La Mala Muerte

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12:25 PM    Panel II Q&A and Discussion

1:10 PM      BREAK

1:20 PM      Alumnx Award Presentation: VCS Class of 2025

1:25 PM      Alumnx Award Recipient: Jesus Barraza (VCS/FINAR 2016)

1:35 PM      Closing Remarks: Jasmin Darznik

1:40 PM      RECEPTION

Light food & refreshments will be provided