Jacob Sirhan, 2nd from right, and other panel members, @UCLA_arthistory Instagram account
Jacob Sirhan participated in a panel at the 59th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium in October. This year’s theme was “In Crisis,” examining how art history has responded to crisis through a range of time periods, regions, cultures, and mediums—from ancient to contemporary, global to local, and transnational to transhistorical. Jacob presented on his research, entitled “Repurposing Crisis: Exploring (im)possibility in Palestinian Futurities” where he discussed two short films by the Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour in which she engages futurity and absurdity to speculatively trouble catastrophe—and critically recalibrate historical national aspirations.