This summary provided a review and synopsis of the 31st Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium. More than just another interesting academic conference, this event, titled “Creative Conflict,” tackled difficult, violent, and destructive material. With its stimulating presentations and pauses for reflection, it suggested a desire on the part of artists, scholars, critics, and historians to be a generative and creative force in dealing with the intersections of the visual arts, culture, and conflict.
