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Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Global Visual Cultures

8th Annual DLLC GSA Conference

Global Visual Cultures Program

April 3 – 4, 2026

Hamilton College

(1512 Pendleton St, Columbia, SC 29208)

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Prof. Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez		 download the conference program [pdf]

Friday April 3rd

Breakfast 8:30 am

Welcoming Speech 9:00am

1st Panel 9:30am – 10:45am (Room 227)

Identity Narratives in Children/YA Fiction

Panel Chair: Delaney Sullivan

  • Jordan Frederick “Graphic Novel Autopathologies as Feminist Texts” (UofSC)
  • Allie Moore “I Was Destined to Have an Identity Crisis”: Utilizing Narrative Structure and Aesthetic Techniques in Comics to Analyze Halfway There." (UofSC)
  • Delaney Sullivan “Food as Other: Touristic Multiculturalism in Contemporary American Picturebooks” (UofSC)

Coffee 10:45 – 11:00 am

2nd Panel 11:00am – 12:15pm (Room 227)

Visual Linguistics from the Global South (Hybrid)

Panel Chair Hind Ashraf Hosny

  • Keri Sanchez Sandoval “Lenguas indígenas y el español en México, Chile y la zona andina: Identidad, influencia y contacto lingüístico” (UofSC)
  • Shana Scucchi “Negotiating Meaning and Visual Metaphor in Spanish Product Advertisements” (UofSC)
  • Faten ElKafrawy “Cartoons Translate Cultures and Ideologies: Qatar Football World Cup 2022 Cartoons Translate the Unsaid” [V] (Modern Sciences and Ats University & Fullbright Scholar)

Lunch Break (Midday Intermission) 12:30pm – 2:00 pm

3rd Panel 2:00pm – 3:15pm (Room 226)

Depicting National History in a Postcolonial World

Panel Chair Rume Kpadamrophe

  • Arunav Das “Can the Subaltern be Screened? Visual Counter-archive in Garos of 71” (USC)
  • Babila Samuel “Images and nationhood: Sembene Ousmane’s Postcolonial cinema” (USC)
  • Hannah Frimpomaa Nhyira “A Visual History of Colonial and Postcolonial Ghana: Power, Cartography, and Visual Discourse” (USC)

Refreshments 3:15 – 4:00 pm

Keynote Speech 4:00pm-5:00pm (Room 226)

Speaker: Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez, CPLT and Spanish Program, (USC)

“Disgust as Cultural Critique. Video Activism, Visual Arts, and What Makes Us Human in a Post-Human world.”

Introduced by: CPLT Program Director, Agnes Mueller (USC)

CPLT Reception 5:15 – 7:00pm (Location: Gambrell 429)

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Saturday April 4th

Breakfast 8:30 – 9:00

4th Panel 9:00am – 10:15am (Room 227)

Institutional Resistance in Mexican Films

Panel Chair Carter Frahm

  • Cris Tengono Garcia “Identidades extraídas: estéticas cuir y violencias de género en Temporada de Huracánes” (USC)
  • Wari Gálvez Rivas “Los ecos del indígena muerto: la voz indígena en Roma de Alfonso Cuarón” (USC)
  • Perla Richerson “Contained Transgression: Power, Coloniality, and Subaltern Agency in Herod’s Law and The Crime of Father Amaro” (USC)

Coffee 10:15 – 10:30

5th Panel 10:30am – 11:45am (Room 227)

Political Resistance and Memory (Hybrid)

Panel Chair Arunav Das

  • Agostina Mercado “That-May-Still-Be: Photographs of the Disappeared as Vehicles of Resistance in (Post-)Dictatorship Argentina” [V] (USC)
  • Sarah Aly “The Visual as Battleground: Graffiti of The Egyptian Revolution, 2011 and Beyond” (USC)
  • Hao Sun “Ethical Witnessing Beyond Spectacle: Everyday Life and Historical Trauma in Snow in Midsummer” (USC)

Lunch 12:30pm – 2:00 pm

6th Panel 2:00pm – 3:15pm (Room 226)

Technologies of the Visual Across Time

Panel Chair Jenna Parks

  • Liv Murray “Beyond the Art: Identity expression, communication, and interpretation through visual cues” (UofSC)
  • Jack Dedmondt “Eternal Memory: Symbolist Cosmology in Leon Bakst’s Painting Terror Antiquus” (UofSC)
  • Leah Burney “Streaming Sermons for Local Community Churches” (GSU)
  • Litong Zhu “Nationalistic Visual Youth Culture in Contemporary China through BiliBili Country Humans Animatics” (U of Georgia)

Refreshments 3:15 – 3:30 pm

7th Panel 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm (Room 226)

Capturing Lived Experiences

Panel Chair Gisselle Lopez

  • Rume Kpadamrophe "Wearing the World: La Sape and vernacular cosmopolitanism in Mabanckou's Bleu-Blanc-Rouge." (USC)
  • Hind Ashraf Hosny “The Grime of Egypt: Countervisuality in the Photography of Denis Dailleux” (UofSC)

 

Reception 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm (Location: Gambrell 429)

This conference is sponsored by the USC CPLT Program and Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures

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