14th Annual Art History Undergraduate Symposium • April 6 2018
Karina Greenwood • The Tartan Ladies: A Comparative Analysis of Tartan and Gender Through Queen Victoria and the Scottish Suffragettes
Brenna Goodwin-McCabe • “Secure the Shadow E’re the Substance Fade”: How Post-Mortem Photography Captures and Evades
Maxim Greer • Re-Branding and Hybridization: New Approaches to ‘Drag’ in the Age of Neoliberal Queer “Affirmation”
Jeffrey Tse • The Offender Behind the Lens: Enduring Ethical Legacy of Lawrence Beitler’s Lynching Photography
13th Annual Art History Undergraduate Symposium • March 7 2017
Mary Agoncillo • Steampunk Allohistory in Bioshock Infinite: The Video Game as an Engine of Speculative Creativity
Simranpreet Anand • The Burden of Performance Documentation
Nick Loewen • The Luminous Image
12th Annual Art History Undergraduate Symposium • April 1 2016
Blake Finucane • #Branded – Christie’s in the Age of Digital Image Circulation
Lucas Kling • The Cyborg Complex: Technophobia, Transphobia, and American Reflexxx
Ran Zheng • To Move the Mountain: The Image of Collectivity in Chinese Contemporary Art
11th Annual Art History Undergraduate Symposium • March 27 2015
Whitney Brennan • Archival Bodies
Irene Choi • Displays of Northwest Coast Art: An Imagined Space of Unity and Diversity in the UBC Bookstore and the Museum of Anthropology Gift Shop
Jacqueline Hunter • Japan’s Shifting National Identity: The Composition of Layered Surfaces Within Shõmei Tõmatsu’s Postwar Photography
Emma Potter • Reclaiming fragmentation: the Double Negative of Modernity in Baudelaire, Benjamin, and Eliot
Erin Watkins • Monet’s Series: A Temporal Narrative
10th Annual Art History Undergraduate Symposium • March 21 2014
Sebastiaan Boersma • The Bliss of Creative Destruction; or, the Outlandish Outgrowth of Hugo Ball’s Mimicry and Ventriloquy
Natalie Cammarasana • Toulouse-Lautrec’s Medical Inspection: Observation in the 19th Century Parisian Brothel
Katia Fernández • Mughal Painting: Selective Appropriations and Explorations of the “Other” in Occidental and Oriental Ambits
Nicholas Harvey-Cheetham • Sensitive Networks: The Material and Aesthetic Implications of Vision, Visibility, and Surveillance in the Built Environment
Cherie Sommer • I LOOOOVE YOUR CULTURE: The Effects of Colonial Heteronormatization and the Nuclearization of the Native Family Unit on First Nations Sexuality