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Speculative Forensics: The 55th Annual UCLA Art History Grad Symposium and Workshop
Speakers and Participants
Event and Registration Info
Call for Papers
Speculative Forensics: The 55th Annual UCLA Art History Grad Symposium and Workshop
Speakers and Participants
Event and Registration Info
Call for Papers
Speakers and Participants
Event and Registration Info
Call for Papers


The annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium is the longest running symposium of its kind in North America. Initiated in 1965, the symposium provides a forum for graduate students to present original research in a scholarly format. Organized collectively by a cohort of students, the symposium is organized around critical themes and issues addressing the history and current state of art historical scholarship. Past themes and keynote speakers include: Distraction, Paul Mpagi Sepuya (2019); Alterations, Juliana Huxtable (2018); (Re)Mediation, Lisa Salzman (2015); Translations, Jonathan Hay (2012); Standard Procedure, Beatriz Colomina (2011); Incongruities, Helen Molesworth (2009); ARTifact, Alan McCollum (2000); and Crossings, Belongings, Presence, Trinh T. Minh-ha (1998).