2020 Student Research Colloquium
**We are postponing the Student Research Colloquium until further notice for the health and safety of the NYU community. At this time, NYU is restricting large group gatherings as much as possible. The safety of our students, alumni, parents, staff and friends remains a top priority for the University and NYU Liberal Studies. While in-person events and programming are important, we feel it prudent to exercise an abundance of caution.
Friday, March 27
Kimmel Center, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, 60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor
- 11:00am–12:00pm: Keynote
- 12:00-1:30pm: Student Poster Presentations
Lunch served
Liberal Studies will hold its fifth annual Student Research Colloquium. This year we are excited to announce that the event will be held in collaboration with the Integrated Digital Media (IDM) program at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. The annual event invites an internationally renowned speaker to the Washington Square campus to speak, showcase exemplary student research, and facilitate students’ in-depth exploration of timely topics, as well as offers students a valuable opportunity to present their research to the NYU community.
Our 2020 keynote presenter is artist and NYU alumna Beatrice Glow, who in service of public history and a more socially and environmentally just future, often co-labors with scholars, scientists and community stakeholders to assemble surviving fragments and question colonialist histories. Her ongoing research into the social histories of plants provides vignettes into the entangled realities of dispossession, enslavement, migrations and extractive economies. In this artist talk, she will delve into the creative process behind various experiential technology collaborations and multisensory and multimedia projects that weave together a global narrative of shared cultural heritages and environmental realities.
About Beatrice Glow
Beatrice Glow is an interdisciplinary artist leveraging experiential technology collaborations, olfactory art, sculptural installations, painting, writing and video to shift dominant narratives. She is currently a 2019-2020 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Artist. She has been named a 2018-19 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow; 2018-19 Smack Mellon Studio Program Artist; 2017-18 ZERO1 American Arts Incubator artist amplifying Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian voices; and 2015 Wave Hill Van Lier Visual Art Fellow. Her 2016-17 Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University residency led to virtual and augmented reality projects “The Wayfinding Project” and “Mannahatta VR,” and public installation “Lenapeway” in allyship with Indigenous environmental stewardship. She received a 2013 Franklin Furnace Fund grant for “Floating Library”—a pop-up public space aboard the Hudson River’s Lilac Museum Steamship. As a 2008-9 Fulbright Scholar, she developed a migratory museum and trilingual artist book on Asian migration to Peru.
Notable activities include solo exhibitions “Flowers and Forts” (2019) at Taipei Contemporary Art Center; “Spice Roots/Routes” (2017) at NYU Institute of Fine Arts, “Aromérica Parfumeur” (2016) at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile and “Rhunhattan Tearoom” (2015) at Wave Hill; group shows at Honolulu Biennial 2017, Park Avenue Armory and Galeri Nasional Indonesia; and a Duke University Press’ Cultural Politics Journal artist feature. As a Hemispheric Institute Council Member, she co-founded the Performing Asian/Americas: Converging Movements workgroup. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from New York University and is a School of Visual Arts MFA Art Practice faculty member.
