Solange Adum Abdala, from: Crónica de una Disección de Maravillas, 2025
The Public Humanities Hub Graduate Student Showcase is a semi-annual series in which interdisciplinary Graduate research on thematic topics is presented and celebrated. This term’s thematic showcase is co-organized with Critical Image Forum Research Excellence Cluster.
This symposium invited graduate research in archival images in the humanities and sciences. Understood broadly, image archives may include institutional or community holdings, researchers’ and makers’ collections, as well as digital image aggregations or networks. Image archival research often involves complex historical, ethical and methodological approaches, and critical self-reflections on the position and approaches of the researcher. Presenters gave seven-minute lightning talks, and had the opportunity to connect with other students and faculty engaged with image research across campus.
Presenters:
Michael Dang, PhD in Art History
Unit Bruises: Theodore Wan & Paul Wong and Continuing Research
Amanda Kachadoorian Jordi, MFA in Visual Art
The Standardization of Existence
Henna Mann, MA in Journalism
Dreams of Our Grandmothers
Katica Naude, MA in Geography
The Vexed Question of Camaraderie
Tam-anh Nguyen, MA in Geography
Mnemic I.III
Yerang Park, PhD in Art History
Scores as Images: Archives at Nam June Paik Art Center and Smithsonian American Art Museum
Florence Plathan, MA in Art History
Encountering Trans Femininity in the Archive: Moving Towards a Trans Feminist Art Historical Method
Mickey Semera, MA in Cinema and Media Studies
Archiving Eritrea: A Theory of Resistance to Colonial & Postcolonial Temporalities
Gloria Wong, MFA in Visual Art
Unstable Inheritances: Notes on Asian Diasporic Presence and the Counter-Archive
Yuri Yamaguchi, MA in History
Archiving the Forgotten: Tracing the Karayuki-san Through Postcards and Singapore’s Japanese Cemetery (1890s-2022)