2025 Program

Saturday, November 8

4 – 5pm:

Exhibition Opening Reception
Yee I-Lann: paths of the wind weave shadows bare bones of a mat
Curated by Chase Westfall and Meriem Aiouna

5 – 6:30pm:

Keynote Address
Yee I-Lann, The Surface Remembers: Decolonial Groundwork from the Archipelago
Discussants: Hala Auji and Radha Dalal

Sunday, November 9

8:30am:

Symposium registration, with coffee available

9 – 10am:

Curating from Doha: Islamic Art for a Contemporary Asia
Speakers: Shaika Al-Nassr, Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, and Nicoletta Fazio
Introduced by Mallak Hassan, Art History Major, VCUarts Qatar

10:10am – 1pm:

Panel 1 – Unsettled Pasts, Urban Futures
Discussants: Hala Auji and Radha Dalal

10:10 – 10:20am:
Welcome Remarks; Introductions by Charlotte Hanson, Art History Graduate Student, VCUarts Richmond

10:20 – 10:40am:
The Paper Courtyard
Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen

10:40 – 11am:
The Omani Prayer Hall in Quanzhou: Restoration or Reinvention?
Sylvia Wu

11 – 11:20am
Contested Spaces in Singapore’s MBF Mosques (1977–1995): Rethinking
Islamic Architecture and Aesthetics Through Governance, Identity, and
Heritage
Hadi Osni

11:20 – 11:40am
Migrant Muslims in a Non-Islamic Society: Identity, Space, and Art in
Korea
Soojeong Yi

11:40 – 12pm:
Coffee Break

12 – 1pm:
Panel 1 conversation and audience questions

1 – 2pm:

 Lunch (Saffron Hall)

2:10 – 4:45pm:

Panel 2 – Acts of Faith, Sounds of Resilience
Discussants: Hala Auji and Radha Dalal

2:10 – 2:15pm:
Introductions by John Walker, Art History Graduate Student, VCUarts Richmond

2:15 – 2:35pm:
Faith and Form: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia
Wulan Dirgantoro

2:35 – 3:05pm:
Beyond Formalism: Contemporary Artistic Expressions of Lived Islam in
Patani
Muhammad Arafat

3:05 – 3:25pm:
Indigeneity, Allyship, and Art in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts
Melia Belli Bose

3:25 – 3:45pm:
Faith, Fury, and Feminism: Voice of Baceprot’s Musical Resistance
Leonie Schmidt

3:45 – 4:05pm:
Coffee Break

4:05 – 5:05pm:
Panel 2 conversation and audience questions

Monday, November 10

8:30am:

Symposium registration with coffee available

9 – 10am:

Karak on the Bisat (كرك على البساط): Symposium keynote speaker Yee
I-Lann with curators Chase Westfall and Meriem Aiouna

10:15 – 1pm:

Panel 3 – Gestures of Memory, Reimagined Terrains.
Discussants: Monica Merlin and Michelle Yee

10:15 – 10:25: Welcome Remarks and Introductions, Maryam Salem, Art History Major, VCUarts Qatar

10:25 – 11:05am:
平行绿洲与多极游牧：新疆现当代艺术生态式样和实践 (Parallel
Oases and Multinodal Nomadism: Ecological Patterns and Practices in
Contemporary Art from Xinjiang)
Zeng Qunkai

11:05 – 11:25am:
Beyond the Hijab: Hair, Memory and Intimacy in Contemporary Art of
Indonesia
Boreth Ly

11:25 – 11:45 am:
Faith in the Unknown
Anissa Rahadiningtyas and Syaheedah Iskandar

11:45 – 12:05pm:
Coffee Break

12:05 – 1pm:
Pamel 3 conversation and audience questions

1 – 2pm:

Lunch (Saffron Hall)

2:10 – 4:45pm:

Panel 4 – Tracing Presence, Blurring Boundaries
Discussants: Monica Merlin and Michelle Yee

2:10 – 2:15pm:
Introductions, Evelyn Vandrey, Art History Graduate Student, VCUarts Richmond

2:15 – 2:35pm:
Personal Effects
Roberto Jamora

2:35 – 3:05pm:
That Which At First Tastes Bitter
Charwei Tsai

3:05 – 3:25pm:
I Love You
Arahmaiani

3:25 – 3:45pm:
Coffee Break

3:45 – 4:45pm:
Panel 4 conversation and audience questions

4:45 – 5:45pm:

4:45 – 4:55pm:
Closing Remarks, Hala Auji and Radha Dalal

5 – 5:45pm:
Closing Reception