This event is free with museum admission.
The Berkeley/Stanford Symposium is an annual gathering of emerging voices in the arts organized by graduate students in art history at Stanford and UC Berkeley. This year’s symposium seeks to define, complicate, and unpack the idea of “outsider” art across mediums, cultures, and time periods. The day-long event will explore how certain artists — often existing outside the boundaries of major institutions and canons — are (and are not) exhibited, valued, and historicized.
Presentation subjects may include: notions of “self-taught” and “folk” art, overlooked and understudied histories, and the role of such markers as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ability in cultural recognition. Charlene Villaseñor Black, professor of art history and Chicana/o studies at UCLA, will give this year’s keynote address.
10 a.m. Welcome
10:15–11:35 a.m. Panel One: The Outsiders
1–2 p.m. Panel Two: Structural (Dis)integrities
2:20–3:20 p.m. Panel Three: Expanding the Outside
3:20–4:20 p.m. Keynote Address
Charlene Villaseñor Black, Professor of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
“Decolonizing Art History? Chicanx Studies and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.”
4:20 p.m. Closing Remarks
Jennie Yoon, Stanford University
Christian Whitworth, Stanford University
Ramon De Santiago, University of California, Berkeley
J.G. Amato, Stanford University, panelist
Gina J. Choi, Princeton University, panelist
Julián Sánchez González, Columbia University, panelist
tamara suarez porras Adjunct Professor at University of San Francisco and California College of the Arts, panelist
Jez Flores García, University of California, Berkeley, respondent
Mathilde Andrews, University of California, Berkeley, panelist
Leticia Cobra Lima, University of California, Santa Barbara, panelist
Ryan Ikeda, University of California, Berkeley, panelist
Ann Marguerite Tartsinis, Stanford University, respondent
Meghaa Ballakrishnen, Johns Hopkins University, panelist
Jon Davies, Stanford University, panelist
Russell Stephens, University of British Columbia, panelist
Kelly Filreis, Stanford University, respondent
Find more detailed schedule and presentation information here.