Selected Participants

 Andrea Adams, Communication & Rhetorical Studies @ Syracuse University

Kate Brideau, Graduate Program in Visual Culture @ New York University 

Thomas Dunn, Communication @ University of Pittsburgh 

Robin Hoffman, English @ University of Pittsburgh

Lyoung-Lae, Kang, Visual Culture @ University of Rochester

James Kozinski, Communication @ University of Utah

Keerthi Potluri, Rhetoric @ University of California, Berkeley

Ryan Randall, Visual Culture @ University of Rochester

Kurt Stavenhagen, English @ Syracuse University

Bryan Walsh, Communication & Rhetorical Studies @ Syracuse University

Workshop Facilitators

Mitch Reyes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Lewis & Clark College. His research in memory studies focuses specifically on African American public memory. His work analyzes visual and written texts that remember particular African Americans, such as Malcolm X, or whole institutions, like slavery, in politically charged ways. His current book project focuses on the history of the slavery reparations debate and the implications of that debate for race relations in the United States. Beyond the politics of public memory, Professor Reyes also does research on the political impact of science and mathematics. His publications have appeared in Rhetoric Review, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and The International Journal of the Humanities.

Roger Hallas is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Syracuse University, where he teaches film and media studies. He is currently finishing a book on AIDS, bearing witness, and the queer moving image, and has co-edited The Image and the Witness, a collection of essays on witnessing and visual culture. His publications have appeared in Camera Obscura, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, and Millennium Film Journal.

Joanna Spitzner is an artist whose work examines social and economic infrastructures within everyday contexts. Several of her projects take the form of experimental organizations as artworks, including The Joanna Spitzner Foundation, Inc., The Union of Undercover Artists, CoAct, and the Urban Art Rangers. Her work has involved several collaborations with artists in the UK, including Exit Review, Press Corps, Prime: Part-Time, and Hen Weekend. She has a MFA in Art Critical Practices from The Ohio State University, and a BFA in Painting from Syracuse University. Joanna is an Assistant Professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, where she primarily teaches Time Arts.http://www.everydayarchive.org

Kirsten Stromberg is an interdisciplinary artist and lecturer at Syracuse University in Florence, Italy. Her areas of interest include contemporary art, feminism, postcolonial thought, Buddhist philosophical inquiry, intercultural exchange and education. Her work addresses these issues through various media from sound to video to collage, installation, collaboration and painting. Kirsten graduated a Senior Fellow from Dartmouth College focusing on experimental music, sound sculpture, sound installation and painting. In 2005 she completed her MFA in Arts and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA with her thesis ‘Negotiating Desire’ exploring duality through the intersections between poststructuralist feminism (most specifically Luce Irigaray) and ancient Buddhist texts. She has lectured and taught at several universities and art institutes throughout Italy including Washington University in St Louis-Florence Campus, Mediterranean Center for Arts and Sciences, and Florence University in the Arts.  She has also participated in several workshops taught by the collaborative duo Rosenclaire including a residency in Michaelis Art Institute in Capetown, South Africa as well as an artist cultural exchange in the province of Venda, South Africa working with Master Carvers from the region.  Her work has been shown in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Florence, London, Copenhagen and Berlin.www.kirstenstromberg.net

The Visible Memories Conference is presented by the Visual Arts and Cultures Cluster of The Central New York Humanities Corridor, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Corridor is a large-scale partnership with Syracuse University, Cornell University, and the University of Rochester that connects scholarship in five other cluster areas: philosophy, linguistics, religions and cultures, musicology/music history, and humanities at the interface of science/technology.