The inaugural Berkeley/Stanford Symposium will be held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in Spring, 2017. Not at Home is an opportunity to discuss how visual material has registered changing relations to home over time. Papers, panels, and performance pieces speak to how home and its opposites – displacement, estrangement, voyage, or exile – manifest in visual expression and material culture throughout history. They ask, among other questions, if home is denied, rejected, or destroyed, what are the spaces of not-at-home, and how are they visually created? Join us for a critically and politically engaged dialog across disciplines, temporalities, and creative practice.

Organized in the 2016/2017 academic year by Danny Smith (Stanford) and Jess Genevieve Bailey (UC Berkeley), the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium is an annual gathering of emerging voices in the arts. The symposia seek to support graduate students in all fields as well as young artists, museum professionals, and writers.

Free of charge and open to the public. Program and keynote speaker to follow.