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The Arts & Humanities Association of Graduate Students (AHAGS) at The University of Texas at Dallas invites you to the 13th annual Research, Art & Writing (RAW) Graduate Student Conference. This year's theme, 'Reality, Reflection, and Retrospection,' features presentations and discussions on various topics within the Arts & Humanities, including gender, performance, identity, reality, and new media. The conference will include keynote speakers, concurrent sessions, and panel discussions led by scholars from universities across the country.
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The Arts & Humanities Association of Graduate Students presents the thirteenth annual Research, Art & Writing Graduate Student Conference The University of Texas at Dallas Saturday, February 12, 2022 " Reality, Reflection, and Retrospection "
Welcome to RAW! The Arts & Humanities Association of Graduate Students welcomes you to RAW 2022. Our conference is organized by and for graduate student scholars and artists to engage in scholarly and creative conversations with their peers from across the various fields of the humanities. Though we cannot share our ideas and research in the same physical location this year, we are ecstatic for the presentations included in this year's program. RAW 2022 is our biggest and most diverse program ever - enjoy your journey through the humanities with our fabulous speakers! Reality, Reflection, and Retrospection This year's conference features scholarly papers and creative works that address how we engage/disengage with reality, see ourselves and the world around us, and look to the past to understand our present and future. Our presenters look to the ideas, texts, and images that help shape what we understand to be the world we live in. Meet the RAW Team
Rosemond Cates (she/her) Alisha Chunara (she/her) Shahrzad Hamzeh (she/her) Mazyar Mahan (he/him) Arya Prakash (she/her)
(he/him) President, AHAGS
(he/him) RAW Conference Coordinator
Conference Schedule Welcome Address 8:00am-8:30am Concurrent Session 1 8:30am-9:45am Concurrent Session 2 9:55am-11:10am Morning Address 11:20am-12:35pm Break for Lunch 12:35pm-1:35pm Concurrent Session 3 1:35pm-2:50pm Concurrent Session 4 3:00pm-4:15pm Afternoon Address 4:25pm-5:40pm Conclusion 5:40pm-6:00pm
R A W R A W R A W Research. Art. Writing.
Conference Program Welcome Address 8:00am-8:30am
Jason Walker, AHAGS President Brecken Hunter Wellborn, Conference Coordinator Concurrent Session 1 8:30am-9:45am
Luchita Hurtado: Flesh & Earth Hailey Boutelle (she/her), Texas Christian University Colonization but Make it Feminist: Raw and How Queerness is Eaten Luke Hernandez (he/they), University of Texas at Dallas "It's About Damn Time": The History of Women in Front of and Behind the Camera in Superhero Cinema Douglas Laman (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas
Salt & Skin: Trauma, The Spectral, and Creative Practice Eliza Henry-Jones (she/her), Deakin University Black Dance: From Europe to America in the 18th and 19th Centuries Jennifer Hobson Gormer (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas Performance Venue and its Influence on Audience Traffic Maureen Okwulogu (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas Subverting the 'Domestic': An Analysis of Gendered Identities through Socio-cultural Labor of Female Stage Actresses in Colonial Calcutta Twisha Singh (she/her), McGill University
The Art of the Mirror Selfie: The Disruption of the Artist and the Muse in the 21st Century Kiera Gilbert (she/her), Carnegie Mellon Arca: Technologically Imagined Transfemininity & Constructions of the "Real" Katherine Hitt (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas But #IAmAScientist: Exploring the Representation of Women in STEM on Instagram Calli Naish (she/her), University of Calgary Water Soul: A Mnemonic Media Art Experience in Cultural Heritage Space Cansu Nur Simsek (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas
Perception, Deception, and Delusion: Melville's The Piazza Tales Through the Lens of Trompe L'oeil Angela Gattuso (she/her), University of Denver Exit West and the Magic Doors: A Home Away from Home Street-Consciousness and Female Subjectivity in Mrs. Dalloway Kendall Hubbard (she/her), North Carolina State University "Everywhere and Nowhere": The Postmodern Chronotope of Tommy Orange's There There Syeda Nadia Hasan (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas Tong He (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas
Life on the Balcony Shahrzad Hamzeh (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas Things Unrestored "What's In It For You?": Poetics of Utility & Accessibility Sydney Witucki (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas Fight or Flight Merkin Karr (she/her), Florida Atlantic University Cristian Carlo Suller (he/him), University of Texas at Dallas Morning Address 11:20am-12:35pm
Break for Lunch 12:35pm-1:35pm Concurrent Session 3 1:35pm-2:50pm
Political Economy of News Media in Bangladesh: State Control and Surveillance in the Neoliberal Digital Age by Exposing Female Celebrities Nusrat Zahan Chowdhury (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas
The Destruction of Otherness in Ours are the Streets : Nostalgia for the Non-Existent Anomitra Paul (she/her), Jadavpur University
Goodnight, Lovelace (Robot Theatre)
The Power of Street Art: Artists as Politikós Jillian Viveiros (she/her), Texas Woman's University Claudia Kinahan (she/her), Northwestern University The Post-Apocalyptic Travel Guide Tara Lyon (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas A Love Letter To... Jennifer Seibert (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas Concurrent Session 4 3:00pm-4:15pm Inscriptions of Piety and Coptic Saints: A Folio from the Keir Collection Fatima Esmail (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas Blood of Martyrs: Exploring Identity & Trauma through Graphic Narratives Juhi Karnalkar (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas La Clownesse: The Tranformative Power of Toulouse-Lautrec's Paintings Kathryn Schneider (she/her), Texas Christian University
Assyrian Resistence During the Ottoman Genocide of 1915 Sabri Atman (he/him), University of Texas at Dallas Dancing through the Pandemic: Embodied Activism in Marginalized Communities “Torments of This Remembrance": Sleepwalking and Identity in Edgar Huntly Marquita De Jesus (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas Hanna Perry (she/her), Texas Christian University Abraham Lincoln's Personal Bardo: Sorrow & Trauma in Lincoln and the Bardo Robyn Peterson-Schwartz (she/her), Brigham Young University
Materiality of Animated Documentaries Anastasiia Gushchina (she/her), University of Calgary Stasis & Movement in Werkmeister Harmonies: The Exhaustive Temporality of Long-Take Cinema Matthew Pickard (he/him), University of Colorado Boulder Reading Time through 'Atma' and 'Kaal' in Katha Upanishad Prateeri Rajjak (she/they), IIT Gandhinagar
Strangely Familiar: The Operation of Grand Narratives in Bradbury's "Mars is Heaven!"
Alexandra Balasa (she/her), University of Texas at Dallas
Thank You
Dr. Nils Roemer Interim Dean of Arts & Humanities Desiree Johnson Assistant to the Dean Dena Davis School Fiscal Officer Cindy Seton-Rogers Academic/Outreach Events Manager Dr. Dennis M. Kratz Director, Center for Asian Studies Dr. Daniel Wickberg AHAGS Faculty Advisor Amanda Field Former AHAGS President Dr. Anne Gray Fischer Assistant Professor, Arts & Humanities See you at RAW 2023! Rebecca Cai Graduate Student, Arts & Humanities Brandon Brown Web Developer, Arts & Humanities
