RECAP: 39th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium
Congratulations
…to all who participated in our 39th Annual Graduate Symposium on March 3 & 4, 2023. Graduate students from twelve universities presented and discussed their research with FSU students, faculty, and community members. This year marked the first in-person Symposium entirely planned by an elected committee of graduate students, continuing our long tradition of accessibility, hospitality, and scholarship.
The Symposium keynote address was delivered this year by Heather Igloliorte, Associate Professor of Indigenous Art History and University Research Chair of Circumpolar Indigenous Art, Concordia University, Montreal. Dr. Igloliorte presented “Qummit Qukiria / Up Like a Bullet: The Rise of Contemporary Circumpolar Indigenous Art.”
Each year one student paper is selected by the faculty on the basis of originality and presentation for the Günther Stamm Prize, in memory of a founding professor of the Department of Art History. This year the Stamm Prize was awarded to Sam Rushing (Southern Methodist University) for his paper “Blackness in Black and White: Sebastião Salgado and Serra Pelada.”

The Graduate Student Symposium has been hosted annually by the FSU Art History graduate students and faculty since 1981. Since 2020, the event has been organized by the Graduate Student Symposium Committee, a rotating elected group of Art History MA and PhD students, three of whom serve as session chairs.
Papers presented at the Symposium are considered for publication in Athanor, an internationally distributed periodical edited by a doctoral student on the Symposium Committee and published by FSU Libraries.
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