To support “Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics,” a three-day international, interdisciplinary symposium that accompanies a retrospective exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum (KAM) on the conceptual photography of Hal Fischer. The symposium presented at the KAM theater aims to expand dialogue between the visual and the verbal, situating Fischer’s photographic work in a range of contexts.

To support “Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diaspora on Display,” a three-day program that aims to re-examine the legacy of exhibitions that have featured art by Black artists in the United States and the United Kingdom.

To support “Race in the History of Design: Objects, Identity, Methodologies,” a two-day, workshop-style program that brings together ten scholars from the US and Europe to share research on the topic of race in the field of design history, an underexamined area in the study of objects. The program is set to take place at the Centre de Formation et de Seminaires in Remich, Luxembourg.

To support an international workshop linked to the research project and online publication on Ed Ruscha’s “Streets of Los Angeles” at the Getty Research Institute. Through this workshop, 17 scholars from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany work collaboratively to share innovative approaches to analyzing a recently digitized archive of 130,000 images of Los Angeles taken by Ed Ruscha since the 1960s.

To support “Living for Change: Art, Aesthetics and Asian America,” a two-day public convening that aims to rethink and reimagine the historical and theoretical dimensions of Asian American art and aesthetics. Co-organized by the Cantor Center for Visual Arts and the Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, this event brings together leading artists, performers, curators, and scholars for a broad conversation about the role of images in the past, present, and future of Asian Americans, and it also serves as the inaugural event of the Cantor Art Center’s Asian American Art Initiative.

To support “Inheritance,” a scholarly symposium that convenes participants from a variety of disciplines to consider the intent and context of racialized representations in the arts, especially in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The symposium seeks to understand the history of these artifacts, and to reflect on what to do with this inheritance, while convening speakers from different fields—including art history, contemporary art, law, tribal leadership, museums, and activism—to present on strategies that are being used to respond to concerns about these artworks in the present.