2025 VCS Spring Symposium
About this Event
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
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
California College of the Arts, 450 Irwin Street, San Francisco, United States
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