image credit: Candice Li
The Department of Art & Public Policy hosts a symposium that pairs recent work in critical indigenous and race studies with disability and queer theories. The conference will work through important provocations by recent humanists and artists who have turned to the formation of the New World in order to better understand our contemporary moment. These turns force us to account for a deeper sense of history, along with the aftermath of colonization, enslavement, resource extraction, and the disablement of bodies/communities. We will explore how to imagine new world orders and futures. What is the responsibility of the humanities and the arts to move forward with the reverberations of the New World? What new world orders can emerge by contending with the “old” New World?
Participants:
Artists Candice Lin and Xandra Ibarra
Theorists Mel Chen (UC Berkeley), Jasbir Puar (Rutgers), Mark Rifkin (Univ. of North Carolina), Aimee Bahng (Dartmouth), C. Riley Snorton (Cornell), and Ivan Ramos (UC Riverside)
Friday, January 27th, 1pm - 6pm
239 Greene St., 8th Floor (Media, Culture, & Communication)
Limited Accommodations Available Upon Request.