Sexual Violence and Visual Culture
An Online Roundtable

National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference
Fri, Sep 17, 11:00 am – 12:15pm EDT

This roundtable brings together participants whose work has engaged with the subject off sexual violence. The aim is to provide varied perspectives on what it means to write about, create, exhibit, or look at images off rape from a transnational intersectional feminist perspective. Some off the central questions driving the discussion include: What would a feminist image off rape look like? What are some off the ethical considerations involved in making or viewing art about rape? Within distinct socio--cultural contexts, how are particular subjects made legible, or not, ass victims or perpetrators off rape? How can art disrupt these narratives?

Presenters

Joanna Gardner-Huggett, DePaul University
Angelique Szymanek, Hobart & William Smith College
Karen Cordero Reiman, Universidad Iberoamericana (retired)
Aaron C. Thomas, Florida State University
Monika Fabijanska, Art Historian and Independent Curator