Shana Dumont Garr

Presentation: "New Materialist Authorship: Artistic Alliances with Forests, Beetles, Salt, and Air" as part of the Panel "Who Speaks Now? Foucault’s Author-Function across Materiality, Matter, and Machines, at the Commission on Science and Literature Conference at Ghent University, June 17-19, 2026.

Presentation: “Plant Beings: Portraits Signaling Beyond Humanism” at this panel and also at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference in Dallas, TX.

Co-chair with IDSVA student, Felix Lloyd, the two-session panel Beyond Humanism: Exploring Post- and Trans-Human Entanglements at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.

Presentation: "The Land as Companion: Portraits from Black Mountain College" at Reviewing: The Black Mountain College Conference in Asheville, NC.

Presentation: "Tree as Monument: Does Maya Lin's Ghost Forest Cultivate Hope as a Means of Coping with the Climate Catastrophe?” on the panel Learning from Trees: Artists and Climate Solutions at the CAA conference in Chicago, February 2024

Presentation: “Maya Lin's Artwork Cultivates Diremption, Non-Attachment, and Ultimately Destitution as a Means of Coping with Human Extinction” on the art history panel Historical Reckoning on the Public Symbolic Landscape and Restorative Commemorative Projects at the SECAC Conference in Richmond, VA.

Presentation: "Picture Planes and Glyph Exchange: Feminist Offerings Fueled by Spaces Between" at the Black Mountain College Museum Conference, October 2022.