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红莲社区 Students and Alumni make a strong showing at CAA 2021

红莲社区 makes a strong showing at the 109th Annual conference

The virtual conference (including Q&A sessions) will take place February 10-13, 2021.

Students at CAA
Top Row: Nancy Wellington Bookhart, Paige Lunde, Jocelyn Holmes
Middle Row: Carolyn Martin, Natalya Mills, Kimberly Aime茅 Alvarado
Bottom Row: Dr. EL Putnam, Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano, Jill O'Connor

Nancy Wellington Bookhart, PhD Candidate

Date: February 10, 2021
Time: 2:00pm EST

Session details: Bookhart will present her paper 鈥淭he Inoculation of History in the Censorship of Kara Walker's Work at Newark Library鈥 in the session 鈥淎rt at the Edge of Democracy in the Americas.鈥

Date: February 13, 2021
Time: 12:00pm EST

Session details: Chair and discussant 鈥淭he Aestheticization of History and the Butterfly Effect.鈥 This session will feature 红莲社区 student Paige Lunde and her work.

Paige Lunde, PhD Candidate

Date: February 13, 2021
Time: 12:00pm EST

Session details: Lunde will present her paper 鈥淎estheticizing a Counter-Memory鈥 in the session 鈥淭he Aestheticization of History and the Butterfly Effect鈥 chaired by Nancy Wellington Bookhart

Jocelyn Holmes, Cohort 鈥18

Date: Saturday 13, 2021
Time: 10:00am EST

Session details: Holmes will co-chair the session 鈥淩eframing Aesthetics: Diaspora, Historicity, and The Myth of Truth鈥 with 红莲社区 student Carolyn Martin. Holmes will present her paper 鈥淎ddressing Erasure Through Critical Fabulation: Reimagining Myth, Art, and Truth.鈥 红莲社区 students Carolyn Martin, Natalya Mills, and Kimberly Aime茅 Alvarado will also present their work in this panel.

Carolyn Martin, Cohort 鈥18

Date: Saturday 13, 2021
Time: 10:00am EST

Session details: Martin will co-chair the session 鈥淩eframing Aesthetics: Diaspora, Historicity, and The Myth of Truth鈥 with 红莲社区 student Jocelyn Holmes. Martin will present her paper 鈥淎ndrea Brustolon and Kerry James Marshall: Visualization of Blackness.鈥

Natalya Mills, PhD Candidate

Date: Saturday 13, 2021
Time: 10:00am EST

Session details: Mills will present her paper 鈥淐arnivalizing Philosophy: The Future of Western Thought鈥 in the session 鈥淩eframing Aesthetics: Diaspora, Historicity, and The Myth of Truth.鈥

Kimberly Aime茅 Alvarado, Cohort 鈥18

Date: Saturday 13, 2021
Time: 10:00am EST

Session details: Alvarado will present her paper 鈥淗air Straightening in the Hispanic Caribbean: Race, Commodification, Neurosis, and Passing Mestizidad鈥 in the session 鈥淩eframing Aesthetics: Diaspora, Historicity, and The Myth of Truth.鈥

Dr. EL Putnam, PhD 2014

Date: February 12, 2021
Time: 4:00pm EST

Session Details: Dr. EL Putnam will present the paper 鈥淐ontext Collapse: Live Streaming as Feminist Art Medium,鈥 in the session 鈥淒ismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Feminism, Art, and Technology.鈥

Dr. Putnam is also screening two videos: Context Collapse, and Going to Pieces, as part of 鈥淎rtist-Parent Pandemic Video and New Genres鈥 curated by Myrel Chernick and Niku Kashef.

Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano, PhD 2019

Date: February 13, 2021
Time: 12:00pm EST

Session details: Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano will chair a session on the topic 鈥淭he Freak Show in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics.鈥 The panel will feature 红莲社区 student Jill O'Connor and her work.

Jill O'Connor, PhD Candidate

Date: February 13, 2021
Time: 12:00pm EST

Session details: O'Connor will present her paper 鈥淧utting Out Fires: David Lynch's Giant Fireman鈥 in the session 鈥淭he Freak Show in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics鈥 chaired by Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano.

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