Drawing the Line: Race, Gender, Ethics and the Arts

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Drawing the Line: Race, Gender, Ethics and the Arts

In Person & Remote

March 29, 2025
8:30 am EDT
March 29, 2925
5:30 pm EDT

Location: New Hampshire Institute of Politics

Join us for the “Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts” conference, happening from March 27–29 at Saint Anselm College. This 3-day event, will bring together panelists to explore the ethical dimensions of artistic creation, consumption, and identity, with a focus on how race and gender shape the arts.

Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public with registration. Both in-person and remote.

Conference Schedule Day 3:

Saturday, March 29

8:30am— Continental breakfast and coffee

8:45-9am—Introduction, Sean Parr

9am—Keynote Talk #3, Courtney Elkin Mohler, Associate Professor of Theatre, Boston College

9:45-11am—Governments [Kate Bentz, moderator]

“The Labor of Caring: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s and Haruka Sakaguchi’s Photographic Practices” - Corey Dzenko, Monmouth University
“Art and ‘Traditional Values’ in Modern Russia: Subordination to Imperatives of Power as an Ethical Choice” - Elena Rovenko, Strasbourg University
“Dominican Art During the Rafael Trujillo Dictatorship” - Natalie McCollum, Dexter Southfield School

11:05-12:20—Music, Politics, and the Public [Sheila Liotta, moderator]

“‘Okay, Ladies, Now Let's Get in Formation’: Identity Politics as First-Day Activities” - Anne Flaherty and Laura Moore Pruett, Merrimack College
“Representation, Activism, and the University Orchestra” - Mark Seto, Brown University
“Parsing the Price Revival: An Examination of Public Scholarship’s Potential for Activism in Music” - Virginia Jansen, University of California, Davis

12:30-1pm—Lunch provided

1-2pm—Two Concurrent Sessions

(a) Contemporary Opera [Andrew Haringer, moderator]

“New Genre Public Opera: Criticism and Aesthetics in Another City” - Kathryn Caton, University of Houston
“What Qualifies as a Feminist Opera in the Twenty-First Century? Confronting the Reception of Svadba (2011) and Written on Skin (2012)” - Zoey Cochran, University of Montreal

(b) Settler Artists and Colonialism [Jennifer Thorn, moderator]

“White Girl Seeking Kin in Settler Colonial Context” - Jessica Jacobson-Konefall, University of Lethbridge
“Vicious Dilapidation: Everyday Aesthetic Engagements with Abandoned Barns in Wabanakik” - Madeleine Léger, Georgetown University

2-3:15pm—Visual Arts

“Sensing Affective Acoustics: Film as Engaged Scholarship with Hong Kong as a Case Study” - Winnie W. C. Lai, Dartmouth College
“(Hu)Man Enough: The Ethics of Design Interventions for Familial Conversations About Masculine Gender Expression” - Joshua Pridemore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Gender and Sexuality in Diego Rivera’s Aesthetic-Politics”- Megan Flattley, University of Michigan

3:20-4:35 Queering Pop Culture [Ann Holbrook, moderator]

“Ballroom and Blackbird Reparations: How Beyoncé Reclaims BIPOC History in Video and Musical Assemblage” - Christian Gregory, Saint Anselm College
“A Contextual Queering of Chappell Roan’s ‘Pink Pony Club’” - Ash Mach, University of Rochester
“‘Feminism Has Killed More People than the Atomic Bomb’: Reflecting on the Gender Politics of Barbenheimer” - Jonathan Lupo, Saint Anselm College

4:35 Coffee and Snacks

4:40-5pm—A Response, Naomi André (15-30 minutes)

5-5:15pm Concluding remarks, Laura Shea

To learn more and to see complete conference schedule: https://www.drawingtheline2025.com/

To register: https://form.jotform.com/250514401405139

Sponsored by: Fine Arts Department, Center for Ethics in Society, Bean Distinguished Lecture Series, the Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Fund, the Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center, and the Richard L. Bready Chair in Ethics, Economics & the Common Good.