Professor of Art Véronique Plesch participated in the 13th Conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies “Sedimentation: Towards and Archaeology of Word and Image” that took place August 28-September 1 at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She organized and chaired a session with Augustto Cipriani (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) on “Graffiti as Sedimentation / Graffiti como sedimentação” and presented a paper on “Naming and Seeing Graffiti.” She also organized and chaired a session with Catriona MacLeod (University of Chicago) on “Cutting and Pasting: New Approaches to Collage / Couper et coller : nouvelles approches sur le collage.” Jointly with MacLeod, she presented a paper titled “Prehistories of Collage.” In 2018–19, Augustto Cipriani spent six months at Colby working on his Ph.D. dissertation, which he defended in November 2021 with Plesch as the outside member of the committee.