AHGSA Symposium “Local Interventions”

AHGSA Symposium
Registration is highly encouraged for morning and afternoon object sessions, please use the link here.

Panel sessions will be held in person and accessible remotely via Zoom.

Program

10:30 – 11:30 AM Object Session 1: Special Research Collections, UCSB Library

Angel Diaz, Curator, California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives, UCSB
An Introduction to California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives (CEMA) at UCSB Library

Claudia Grego March, PhD Candidate, UCSB Department of History of Art & Architecture
From California’s Grassroots to U.S. Chicanx Canon: Archival Politics and ICAA’s Latinx Papers Project

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Panel Session 1: Process, Interpretation, and Archival Practice, ARTS 2324 and via Zoom

Moderated by Kendall Lovely, PhD Candidate, UCSB Department of History

Dr. Meranda Roberts, Visiting Professor, Department of Art History, Pomona College
Curating Continuity: Cahuilla Basket Weaving, Institutional Memory, and Indigenous Collaboration

Alida Jekabson, PhD Student, UCSB Department of History of Art & Architecture
Encounters at the Intersection of Taste, Commerce, and Research: California Collectors of the Arts of the Ancient Americas

1:45 – 2:45 PM Panel Session 2: Spatial and Temporal Reconsiderations of the Archive, ARTS 2324 and via Zoom

Moderated by Kristin Yinger, PhD Student, UCSB Department of History of Art & Architecture

Reilly Clark, PhD Student, UCSB Department of History of Art & Architecture
Abalone Futurism: Iridescent Art in Native California

Carrie Gammell, Doctoral Candidate in Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles
Housing Histories: Auto-construction in Benedict Canyon, 1868–1904

Faye Dowling, University of Arizona
Towards a psycho-geographical landscape: place, trace, and the photographic archive

3:15 – 4:30 PM Object Session 2: Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) object session with curator Silvia Perea, Material / Image Research Lab (MIRL), ARTS 1245

Silvia Perea, Curator, Architecture and Design Collection, AD&A Museum, UCSB
From Collections to Collectives