Comparative Speculative Futures (Brown Center for Race & Ethnicity)
Nov
16

Comparative Speculative Futures (Brown Center for Race & Ethnicity)

Speculative Fiction and the related genres of science fiction and fantasy illuminate contemporary issues by situating them in fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, and other imaginative contexts. These narratives invite us to challenge our preconceptions and established ways of being in favor of imagining what is possible. The realm of the speculative has also proven to be an especially fertile space for the exploration of identity and experience for marginalized communities.

This event features a panel of literary and visual artists whose work engages the speculative in generative ways that explore the wide range of possible frameworks for the greater empowerment and self-determination of Black, Latinx, Indigeneous, and other communities of color.

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Rejoinder Call for Submissions -- Trauma
Nov
15
to Dec 15

Rejoinder Call for Submissions -- Trauma

In 2019, the Center for Disease Control identified psychological trauma as one of the largest public health issues facing the global community. Since then, the lived experience of pandemic, and the concurrent and highly publicized incidences of police brutality, racial injustice, environmental disaster, discriminatory legislation, political insurgency and state-sponsored violence have complicated and exacerbated the generational trauma experienced by historically marginalized communities. To ignore or turn away from such experiences is to silence discourse, to refuse to learn or grow, and to risk repeating the same mistakes and harms in the “new normal” as in the “beforetimes,” with the potential for further harm and trauma implied by such action.

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Nov
1

CSREA_Ivan RAMOS on Xandra Ibarra

A core component of CSREA's mission is supporting faculty and advanced students in the development of cutting-edge, collaborative intellectual work. Toward that end, the WITAN series provides a supportive space for faculty and graduates to test ideas in recently published works and work in progress.
 

NOVEMBER 1, 2021  |  12-1PM


BREAKING DOWN, BREAKING TOGETHER:
Xandra Ibarra’s Nude Laughing and the Ethics of Encounter

IVÁN RAMOS  

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies

REGISTER TO ATTEND

Using Latina artist Xandra Ibarra’s ongoing performance piece Nude Laughing, this essay suggests that to face the body of another subject laughing is to face the uneasy reality of encounter. In the piece, Ibarra emerges mostly naked, wearing nothing but a plastic breastplate and a pair of yellow high heels, while dragging a large nylon bag containing various accouterments of white femininity like ballet slippers, pearls, and other objects. The majority of the piece consists of Ibarra breaking onto a manic fit of laughter that goes on for several minutes.

 Ultimately, Ramos argues that to encounter an/other’s body laughing, especially across difference, rather than an impasse, might provide a radical possibility to engage with a feminist and queer ethics of encounter.

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Oct
26
to Nov 3

Life x Code Workshop: JHU Black World Seminar

Join LifexCode members Robin McDowell and Leila Blackbird for a workshop on decolonial climate justice on the Gulf Coast 

Hosted by Keywords for Black Louisiana (LifexCode) and Tulane University

Sugar & Oil: Ecocritical Landscapes of Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and Their Afterlives in South Louisiana

Virtual Lecture, November 3, 6-7:30 PM CST

Zoom link: https://t.co/qnHNZpYWgd

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Oct
21

‘The Slavery + Freedom Studies Working Group’ of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice presents ‘The Writing Laboratory’

Dear IRW Community,

I am writing to share information about the Slavery + Freedom Studies Working Group's virtual workshop next week, which may be of interest to some of you. Please get in touch if you would like a copy of the paper.

The Slavery + Freedom Studies Working Group

of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice presents

The Writing Laboratory

virtual workshop with

Dr. María Esther Hammack (McNeil Center, UPenn)

"Gone to Texas:

Black Women & the Geographies of Smuggling Across Mexican Texas"

Thursday, October 21, 12:00-1:30pm

Zoom link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93811204252?pwd=czRYaUg4TDVvM1J2RnZVMHNHWndXZz09


Join By Phone
+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)

Meeting ID: 938 1120 4252

Password: 138641

Yesenia Barragan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Latin American History, Rutgers University

223A Van Dyck Hall, New Brunswick, N.J.

https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/56-professors/1137-barragan-yesenia

Pronouns: she/her/they/them

Convener, Slavery+ Freedom Studies Working Group, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) 

Early Career Faculty Fellow 21-22, ISGRJ

Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific (Cambridge UP, 2021), available today!

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Andrea Zerpa

Administrative Assistant

Institute for Research on Women Rm 212
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
160 Ryders Lane

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Phone: (848) 932-8298

Fax: (732) 932-0861

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Oct
20

Textures Exhibition Curator’s Talk_ Kent State University Museum

Dr. Joseph L. Underwood will give a lecture on the exhibition, TEXTURES: THE HISTORY AND ART OF BLACK HAIR, which is currently on view at the Kent State University Museum. As a co-curator of the exhibition, Dr. Underwood will discuss the TEXTURES exhibition and accompanying publication that explore Black hair and its important, complex place in the history of African American life and culture.

TEXTURES exhibition website: https://texturesksumuseum.wordpress.com

Dr. Joseph L. Underwood's bio: https://www.kent.edu/art/joseph-l-underwood

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Joo Yun Lee is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: AH 100.06: Art Matters_Guest Lecture (5:00-6:00, Oct. 20)

Time: Oct 20, 2021 04:50 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://mica-edu.zoom.us/j/98423362210?pwd=UjVTb082aTFibmptZkNCME9FM21tUT09

 
Meeting ID: 984 2336 2210

Passcode: 873628

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Meeting ID: 984 2336 2210

Passcode: 873628

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Oct
20
to Nov 1

Opening: Johannes Phoekla_Zeitz MOCAA

PUBLIC OPENING: JOHANNES PHOKELA – ONLY THE SUN IN THE SKY KNOWS HOW I FEEL: A LUCID DREAM

In celebration of the opening of a new solo exhibition by South African painter Johannes Phokela, Zeitz MOCAA will be hosting a public opening from 6 pm to
8 pm on Thursday, 28 October.

The public event will be limited to 100 visitors and all COVID-19 protocols will be in place.

Welcome drinks will be served on arrival and visitors will have the opportunity to view Phokela’s work during this time.
Date          : Thursday, 28 October 2021 
Time          : 6 - 8 pm

Click here to book a ticket
Due to Covid-19 legislation, and following relevant social distancing protocols, a limited number of guests are permitted for the event. We ask that you kindly reserve your ticket to guarantee access. 

Read more here about planning your visit and the steps we're taking to ensure your health and safety.

Image Credit: Johannes Phokela, Original Sin (Inner Circle), 2021, Oil paint on canvas, 290 x 226cm, Courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery

Copyright 2021 © Zeitz MOCAA, All rights reserved.

ABOUT ZEITZ MOCAA
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) is a not-for-profit institution that exhibits, collects, preserves and researches contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora; conceives and hosts international exhibitions; develops supporting educational, discursive and enrichment programmes; encourages intercultural understanding; and strives for access for all.
 
The museum’s galleries feature rotating, temporary exhibitions with a dedicated space for the permanent collection. The institution also includes the Centre for Art Education, the Centre for the Moving Image, and a Project Space for emerging artists. It opened to the public in September 2017.

Our mailing address is:
communications@zeitzmocaa.museum

The information in this document is confidential and is legally privileged. It is intended solely for the purpose intended. Access to this document by unauthorised person is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. While all reasonable steps are taken to ensure the accuracy and integrity of information and data transmitted electronically and to preserve the confidentiality thereof, no liability or responsibility whatsoever is accepted if information or data is, for whatever reason, corrupted or does not reach its intended destination. If you are a data subject of Zeitz MOCAA and you wish to engage with the Information Officer in respect of your rights under the Protection of Personal Information Act no.4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) or other statutes, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

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Oct
19

Mnemosyne Podcast @ IRW Rutgers

Mnemosyne is a space for feminist storytelling, where we center conversations about feminist work and research across disciplines. The first five episodes feature the following feminist scholars:

  • Dr. Arlene Stein (Sociologist & Author)

  • Dr. Anette Freytag (Landscape Architect & Art Historian)

  • Dr. Leslye Obiora (Professor of Law & former Minister of Mines and Steel Development for the Federal Republic of Nigeria)

  • Dr. Stacy Klein (Medievalist)

  • Dr. Basuli Deb (Gender Justice & Human Rights Scholar & Activist)

Mnemosyne is available to listen to on Anchor.FM, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Copy RSS.We are excited to continue highlighting feminist work at Rutgers and beyond. Stay tuned for more episodes soon.

Listen here & share.

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Oct
19
to Nov 10

(ONLINE) LIBERTY: ARTIST TALK WITH ABIGAIL DEVILLE NOVEMBER 10, 2021 | 6:00 PM–7:00 PM

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FREE

This program is online only (via Zoom, YouTube, and Facebook Live). Advance registration is required for Zoom participation, including the chance to ask the artist a question (time permitting). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the talk.

“Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover’s war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.”—James Baldwin, The Creative Process

New York-based sculptor Abigail DeVille uses history itself as raw material. She researches and mines traditionally hidden and often traumatic stories of Black America in order to raise questions about our present, and through her thoughtful process, creates installations that can both provoke and inspire us. One such work was commissioned for Madison Square Park in New York in June 2020, in real-time response to the political tumult and protests that erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police. DeVille turned her artistic attention to an iconic emblem of American freedom: the Statue of Liberty. The resulting sculpture, Light of Freedom, is on view in the Hirshhorn’s Sculpture Garden starting October 15. Light of Freedom brings the symbols of freedom and equality down to earth, where they meet the complexities of this current moment of reckoning. Situated on the National Mall, a site where slave auctions took place through the late-nineteenth century, DeVille’s work asks that we look closely at the gap between our professed ideals and our actions, and reminds us that liberty itself is an ever-lilting, ever-tenuous work in progress.

DeVille joins Hirshhorn associate curator Anne Reeve to discuss the roles public art and performance can play in bringing to light untold and overlooked stories of our past, as we attempt to understand them in relation to our present.

 SCHEDULE

5:50 pm ET | Zoom broadcast opens

6 pm ET | Abigail DeVille in conversation with Anne Reeve

ASL translation and CART (real-time captioning) will be provided for this program. If you have any questions about accessibility for this program, please email hirshhornexperience@si.edu.

This virtual event is part of Talking to Our Time, the Hirshhorn’s series of free artist talks featuring a diverse group of artists and collectives. View all events!

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Oct
18

Unbound: A Book Talk w/ Tarana BURKE

TARANA BURKE
MONDAY, OCTOBER 18

Monday, October 18
6:00 – 7:30 PM (EDT)

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
A Book Talk with Tarana Burke

From the founder and activist behind one of the most impactful social justice movements in contemporary American history, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement, that details her journey to those two simple yet infinitely powerful two words— #MeToo, that drove the devastating impact of rampant, unchecked sexual assault HOME to millions across the globe.


This event is part of our year-long exploration on the theme of "Home, What does it look like now?" How can we reconsider home in the 21st century as we cross states and borders seeking comfort, safety and identity? Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, state sanctioned violence against black bodies coupled with enhancing diverse and inclusive curricula, the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) will explore the significant ways black visual narratives respond to the cultural, dynamic political, social, economic as well intimate changes that force us to (re)interrogate previous conceptions of home.

Cosponsored by the Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation, the 370J Project, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University; and the Department of Photography & Imaging, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Thanks to Ms. Burke's generosity, we are thrilled to announce that the first 335 NYU students, faculty, and employees who register for this event are eligible to receive a free copy of Tarana's book, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement! Pick up instructions will be emailed to eligible registrants. Please be sure to register with your Net ID and identify yourself on the registration form as an NYU student, faculty, or staff member.

REGISTER

Copyright © 2021 NYU-Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture, All rights reserved.

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Oct
15
to Feb 15

JHU Humanities Collaboratory Summer Research Experience

Dear Dr. Salley,

I’m writing to invite your students to apply to a fully-funded virtual summer research program hosted by Johns Hopkins University. I lead a program in the humanities for community college students called the Humanities Collaboratory.  The program is nationally recognized, highly pedagogically innovative, and a proven success. It’s funded by the Mellon Foundation and will provide students with a generous summer stipend of $5750 for ten weeks of full-time mentored research.  Required on-campus housing at our beautiful Baltimore campus is included in the award, in addition to the stipend at no cost to the student. We will be on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus in Baltimore, Maryland and run from June 1st to August 6th. Our first year extending the program nationally was a rousing success; we look forward to partnering with additional regional community colleges. The program is nationally recognized, highly pedagogically innovative, and a proven success. We have over a 90% transfer rate for past participants, hundreds of thousands in post-program scholarships and awards, growth in academic rigor and expertise, and exceptional graduate school placement.

Our website includes more information, including two videos produced by previous years’ participants detailing the impact of the program. The really exciting part is that students can work in ANY area of the humanities and many of our past students have been general studies students, not yet aware of the breadth of humanities options but with a keen love for the discipline. This program is innovative and breaks from the one-on-one mentoring models to provide students with a team of mentors and a student-centered experienced focused on research modeling and collaboration. Students’ projects will be completely individual and customized to their interests; they do not need to have a topic prior to entering the program, as we spend the first two weeks developing their topics. In addition to the application, students will enter an interview round before final selection. Applications are online now through February 15, 2022 and are open to any current community college students with an interest in research in the humanities.

Please also share with your students the zoom link https://zoom.us/my/thehlab to attend any of these application infosessions where they will see application essays from past winners.

ü  November 3, 2021 from 2:00PM-3:00PM ET

ü  November 9, 2021 from 3:00PM-4:00PM ET

ü  November 16, 2021 from 3:00PM-4:00PM ET

We are also pleased to announce an exciting new opportunity for faculty and graduate students who would like to learn how to start and maintain a Humanities Collaboratory at their institution.  In the application, you will nominate one graduate student to accompany you through the program. You will witness how students are transformed into researchers and learn how to move away from one-to-one mentoring to a research team where students explore their individual research interests without focusing on just one content area of specialization. The faculty and graduate students selected will be on the Homewood campus from June 1 to June 10 and July 29 to August 6, 2022, travel and required housing in Baltimore will be provided. To experience the Collaboratory in person, please use the faculty application found here.  Housing will be in a gorgeous Victorian house in the historic Mt. Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore.

You’re receiving this email because you are listed online as Chair of Art History, Theory and Criticism for Maryland Institute College of Art; we apologize if we’re reaching you in error, or if we’ve mistaken your title or affiliation. We are working to reach as many schools as possible, and I’m sure in the creation of our contact list there are some mistakes.

Thank you so much for forwarding this message and the attached flyer widely, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or need more information! Please also consider joining a faculty or graduate training program infosession at the same link as above https://zoom.us/my/thehlab:

ü  October 27, 2021 from 4:00PM-5:00PM ET

ü  November 3, 2021 from 12:00PM-1:00PM ET

ü  November 09, 2021 from 2:00PM-3:00PM ET

 

Best,

Natalie

 

Natalie Strobach, Ph.D.

Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Research, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Research Professor, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute 

Director of the Humanities Collaboratory

Summer Site Director for the Amgen Scholars Program

Johns Hopkins University

3400 N. Charles Street, N703 Wyman Park Bldg. | Baltimore, MD 21218 

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Abigail DeVille Performance
Oct
15
to Apr 15

Abigail DeVille Performance

Abigail DeVille’s new performance, WAKE UP: Liberation Call at Dawn, calls citizens to attention on the National Mall at sunrise on October 15, 2021. Through a procession rooted in drumming, the artist references various cries of protest and action throughout American history, a narrative that includes both lesser-known events such as the Stono Slave Rebellion of 1739 and well-known ones such as the events of January 6, 2021, at the nearby National Capitol Building.

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AFROVIBES Festival
Oct
8
to Oct 9

AFROVIBES Festival

For three days, artists from Uganda, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and the Netherlands will meet on stage at De Balie for the 18th edition of Afrovibes festival. With dance, spoken word, conversations and music.

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National Gallery of Art: Afro-Atlantic Histories
Oct
5

National Gallery of Art: Afro-Atlantic Histories

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts is delighted to invite postsecondary educators to a virtual preview of Afro-Atlantic Histories, a forthcoming exhibition on view at the National Gallery of Art from April 10 to July 17, 2022. Afro-Atlantic Histories addresses a variety of time periods, geographic formations, and theoretical concerns. We welcome instructors from all disciplines to learn more about the exhibition. We hope that this early preview will allow educators to plan field trips, design course assignments, and otherwise incorporate Afro-Atlantic Histories into their lesson planning for spring and summer semesters.

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