"Rather than reducing violence to metaphor or instrumentalizing it as something to overcome, move past, or eradicate, this conference instead investigates the role that violence performs in shaping the aesthetic, ethical, political, critical, and conceptual spaces of media production and reception."

"The Liberal Arts Collective invites graduate students, scholars, and artists to submit abstracts under the theme of “Rendering Violence.” The conference engages with the (re)presentation and deployment of violence in all forms of media (film, short stories, graphic novels, video games..)."

"It was important to put a critical eye on who gets to create, translate, and normalize language about women’s bodies, as a language not only penetrates the logistics of treatment but also affects policies, laws, and education that also impact health outcomes."