Past Conferences

2025-26

Illuminated Lecture: In Defense of Women

Co-Creativity in Music and AI: Improvisation, Interaction, Composition

Sustenance: 2026 UC Graduate Student Virtual Conference

2024-25

Eaton Speculative Fiction Conference

Entanglement: 2025 UC Graduate Student Virtual Conference

2023-24

Beyond “Best Practices”: Proliferating Memory Work through Community-Grounded Oral History

Caste and Corporeality

A Panoply of Colors

Care and Repair: 2024 UC Graduate Student Virtual Conference

2022-23

ICR Pachappa: Navigating Place

Imperial Legacies: Caribbean Genealogies of Racialization Across Disciplines

2021-22

¡Que Viva Mexico! – Transnational Film and Audiovisual Art

Co-Productions: Literature, Media and Diaspora in the Japanese Transpacific

2020-21

Faculty Commons: Graduate Student Research Conference

2019-20

Virtual Research Conference

Legacies of Commedia dell’ Arte

Socialism after Populism

When East Meets West

2018-19

Casting in Color: Race on Stage and Screen

Critiques of Violence/Languages of Critique

Discovering the Testament of Time

Globalization, Populism and the International Order Symposium

Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies

Show & Prove

2017-18

Bilingualism Matters

Genealogies of Knowledge

Rise of Civilization in Mesoamerica

Southeast Asian Natures

Artificial Life

Poetics of Law/Poetics of Decolonization

2016-17

Powerful Migrations

Disasters, Extreme Events, Trauma and Resilience

Indigenous Choreographers

Signs and Symptoms

2015-16

Mellon AIS

Show & Prove

The Arts of Migration

2014-15

2015 Comics & Medicine

Immortality Project

Otherwise Worlds

Global 19th Century

Objects of Devotion