This response paper is for Dr. Jennifer Way's graduate art history seminar on 20th-21st century art. Students in Way's seminar attended 'Social Media and Digital Communities: A Roundtable Discussion,' a session featured at the Digital Frontiers 2012 conference. Way charged her students with writing a short paper to explore connections between the roundtable and their seminar studies. What follows is a short paper by graduate student, Cassie Phan.

This response paper is for Dr. Jennifer Way's graduate art history seminar on 20th-21st century art. Students in Way's seminar attended 'Social Media and Digital Communities: A Roundtable Discussion,' a session featured at the Digital Frontiers 2012 conference. Way charged her students with writing a short paper to explore connections between the roundtable and their seminar studies. What follows is a short paper by graduate student, XuHao Yang.

This response paper is for Dr. Jennifer Way's graduate art history seminar on 20th-21st century art. Students in Way's seminar attended 'Social Media and Digital Communities: A Roundtable Discussion,' a session featured at the Digital Frontiers 2012 conference. Way charged her students with writing a short paper to explore connections between the roundtable and their seminar studies. What follows is a short paper by graduate student, Caleb Zouhary.

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on No Child Left Behind. This presentation discusses the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and its impact on arts education.

Paper examines the meaning of Christian church bells as a symbol of power in medieval Spain.

Paper examines the subjective relationships between the Palestinians, the Israeli West Bank Barrier ( or the “Apartheid Wall”), Handala (a cartoon character created by Naji al-Ali), and the concept of home.

Paper discusses the 1937 National Socialist exhibition “Entartete Kunst,” (Degenerate Art) and the ways it influenced the German public’s perceptions of the art displayed, as well as the cultural memory of modern art in general.

Paper closely examines images and text in Mexico of To-day by Solomon Bulkley Griffin and discusses how the book demonstrates the United States' attitude towards Mexico during the late nineteenth century.

Paper explores refugee representations in the 1950s of non-western/World War II in American media, specifically “smaller circulation” media - local newspapers, academic studies, and governmental documents.

Paper explores why the United States, and in particular Texas, does not begin requiring foreign language education until high school.

Paper examines the state of standards and legislation for handling restitution claims for artworks looting from victims during the Holocaust.

Paper argues the images and text in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70 misrepresented Mexico to justify American imperialism.

Paper explores the biombo as an exemplary model of hybridity that consolidated European, Asian, and Latin American histories using a late 18th century example found in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art.

Paper argues that John Frost’s pictorial images and narratives of Mexicans were used as historical justifications for the intervention into Mexico during the Mexican-American War.

Paper examines the text and images in Bryant Tilden’s Notes on the Upper Rio Grande and analyzes how Mexicans are misrepresented in order to justify Manifest Destiny.

Paper argues that Albert C. Ramsey’s The Other Side: or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the U.S., a translation of a Mexican account of the war, Apuntes para la Historia de la Guerra entre M´ exico y los Estrados-Unidos depicts the Mexican perspective on the Mexican-American war to counter misrepresentations of Mexico by his American peers.