University of Chicago - Event CalendarEvent Calendar RSS FeedCopyright 2022, University of Chicagonsit-webserv@listhost.uchicago.edunsit-webserv@listhost.uchicago.eduhttps://feeds.uchicago.edu/what-is-rss.shtml720Mar 20, 2024: Race & Abolition Series Part I: Abolition Futures Through ArtPlease note that this event will be in-person only. The Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture (CSRPC) and Beyond Prisons Initiative present a two part discussion series in preparation for the CSRPC Annual Public Lecture, Visualizing Abolition: How to Imagine a World Without Prisons, by Professor Gina Dent on May 8, 2024. This series is curated and facilitated by Brianna Suslovic, graduate student at the Crown Family School of Social Work, and Beyond Prisons Fellow. “How might a project that begins with arts catalyze thinking and dreaming beyond the prison industrial complex—creating new ways of engaging the public with our carceral past while hoping to end its future?” Gina Dent and Rachel Nelson ask this question when reflecting on their public arts and scholarship project Visualizing Abolition. Participants will be invited to think about the radical potential of art to engage with abolitionist theory, practice, and dreams. Using audiovisual materials from this study guide for the UC Santa Cruz exhibition Barring Freedom, we will discuss the way that various forms of art might prompt viewers to imagine abolitionist futures. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Lunch will be served! SAVE THE DATE Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at (TIME TBA): CSRPC Annual Public Lecture with Gina Dent- Visualizing Abolition: How to Imagine a World Without Prisons The Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture (CSRPC) Annual Public Lecture features distinguished public intellectuals whose work promotes engaged thought, scholarship and praxis around the topics of race and ethnicity within the public sphere. More details here.   Who is Gina Dent: Gina Dent is Ph.D. is a Humanities Associate Dean of DEI and Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Currently, she serves as PI and Co-Director for the Mellon Foundation-funded Visualizing Abolition, a project designed to redirect social resources away from prisons by accessing the power of the arts. Her recent projects also grow out of her decades-long work as an advocate for prison abolition—Abolition. Feminism. Now. (co-authored with Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie, Haymarket 2022), and the in-progress works Visualizing Abolition (co-edited with Rachel Nelson) and Prison as a Border, on popular culture and the conditions of knowledge. She is a member of the Scholars for Social Justice and the Portal Project, and works with several organizations nationally and internationally, primarily on justice-related concerns. Learn more This series is presented by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture and Beyond Prisons, and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at UChicago./live/events/231369-race-abolition-series-part-i-abolition-futures231378Mar 20, 2024 12:30 pm 1:45 pmCenters for Gender/Race Studies, Community Room (105)If you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.Mar 20, 2024: Open Classroom: Christopher HarrisIn Christopher Harris’s first autobiographical work, God Bless the Child, Harris reinterprets and reconfigures his own infancy and experience as a foster child through cinematic collage. Synthesizing photos, records, and other archival materials with 16mm film footage he recently shot in Senegal, Harris situates “the carcerality of the social welfare state and child services in relation to Black childhood in the US” within the broader context of the transatlantic slave trade and the French Catholic Church’s colonization of West Africa and the Americas. His hometown of St. Louis, MO and St. Louis, Senegal are presented as fraternal, colonized twin cities. The archival materials, which trace Harris’s life from a newborn under the guardianship of the Catholic Charities Archdiocese of St. Louis, to his senior year of high school in a Catholic group home for boys run by Jesuit priests, will eventually be edited into an experimental essay film, hybridizing his personal archive with footage that he will soon be shooting in his hometown and in Paris. This presentation will include & encourage open conversation with the audience, and a post-show Q&A. Christopher Harris makes films and installations that read African American historiography through the poetics and aesthetics of experimental cinema.  He employs a variety of technical and formal approaches in his work including manually and photo-chemically altered appropriated moving images, staged re-enactments of archival artifacts, interrogations of documentary conventions, hand-cranked cameras, rear-projection, optical printing, and hand processing with high-contrast black-and-white film stock, solarization, shots of extreme duration, and screen captured video. His influences and inspirations, which vary from film to film, range from Black literature, all forms of Black music and various strains of mid-century avant-garde film./live/events/231026-open-classroom-christopher-harris231770Mar 20, 2024 7:00 pm 10:00 pmLogan Center, Screening RoomIf you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.Mar 26, 2024: Author Talk with Katrina Daly ThompsonJoin us for a conversation with Katrina Daly Thompson, author of Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America. Thompson will be joined in conversation by Eman Abdelhadi, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072. About the Book From New York University Press – The turn of the twenty-first century ushered in a wave of progressive Muslims, whose modern interpretations and practices transformed the public’s perception of who could follow the teachings of Islam. Muslims on the Margins tells the story of their even more radical descendants: nonconformists who have reinterpreted their religion and created space for queer, trans, and nonbinary identities within Islam. Katrina Daly Thompson draws extensively from conversations and interviews conducted both in person in North America and online in several international communities. Writing in a compelling narrative style that centers the real experiences and diverse perspectives of nonconformist Muslims, Thompson illustrates how these radical Muslims are forming a community dedicated to creative reinterpretations of their religion, critical questioning of established norms, expansive inclusion of those who are queer in various ways, and the creation of different religious futures. Muslims on the Margins is a powerful account of how Muslims are forging new traditions and setting precedents for a more inclusive community— one that is engaged with tradition, but not beholden to it About the Author Katrina Daly Thompson is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of the Humanities, Professor of African Cultural Studies, and the Faculty Advisor to the African Languages Program. They are also a core faculty member in Second Language Acquisition, with additional affiliations in Anthropology, Gender & Women’s Studies, Religious Studies, Folklore, and the Middle Eastern Studies Program. Their research uses critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to examine African and Muslim discourse, with specific projects in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, North America, and online. About the Interlocutor Eman Abdelhadi is an academic and writer who thinks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, politics, and identity. She is co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, a sci-fi novel published in 2022 with Common Notions Press. Her academic work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and covered by press outlets such as the Washington Post, Associated Press, and NPR. Abdelhadi received her PhD in Sociology in 2019 and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. A partnership between the Martin Marty Center and the Seminary Co-Op, Hyde Park’s legendary academic bookstore, this author talk series features intimate conversations with authors of recent books that consider the topic of religion./live/events/225366-author-talk-with-katrina-daly-thompson225654Mar 26, 2024 6:00 pm Swift Hall, Common RoomIf you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.Mar 28, 2024: Celebrate the Living Legacy of Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells – one of the greatest civil rights leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After her newspaper in Memphis, Free Speech, was destroyed, Wells moved to Chicago, where she became a crusader against lynching and an advocate for women’s rights. The tradition of activism that she launched in Chicago continues to this day. Join us on March 28, as we celebrate Ida B. Wells’ legacy and commitment to free expression for all.   March 28, 2024 5pm – 8pm Logan Center, Performance Hall 915 E 60th St Chicago, IL 60637   Speakers and performers include the following and several others: Adam Green, Associate Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora, & Indigeneity and History, and the College Aislinn Pulley, Executive Director of Chicago Torture Justice Center Anwuli Anigbo, Development Director at the Invisible Institute Dan Duster, Motivational Speaker and Ida B. Wells’ great-grandson Jamila Woods, poet Morgan Elise Johnson, Co-founder and Publisher at The TRiiBE  Natalie Moore, WBEZ journalist, author, and playwright Paula J. Giddings, Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emerita of Africana Studies at Smith College This event is co-presented by The Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, and The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, in partnership with WTTW. Reception included. Lead support for the Chicago Forum’s Zell Speaker and Event Series comes from the Zell Family Foundation./live/events/230647-celebrate-the-living-legacy-of-ida-b-wells231768Mar 28, 2024 5:00 pm 8:00 pmLogan Center, Performance HallIf you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.Mar 29, 2024: The Speculative Archive: Ja’Tovia Gary and Cauleen SmithChronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) (Cauleen Smith, 1992, 7’, 16mm) In this short, shot on 16mm film in 1992, Cauleen Smith employs her alter ego Kelly Gabron and a collage of images, text, and voices in order to fabricate a history in which the presence of Black women is reinserted into histories that often render them invisible. Sine at the Canyon & Sine at the Sea (Cauleen Smith, 2016, 8’, digital) Sine at the Canyon & Sine at the Sea began as a video designed to be background eye-candy at an outdoor performance event and evolved, at the invitation of Chris Stults and Genevieve Yue, into a protest against the reverberations of the neo-fascist nonsense percolating in American culture. Three Songs About Liberation (Cauleen Smith, 2017, 10’, digital) Filmed in Chicago, Three Songs features three Black women performing historical monologues drawn from the 1973 book “Black Women in White America: A Documentary History,” edited by Gerda Lerner. The Giverny Document (Ja’Tovia Gary, 2019, 42’, digital) Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, The Giverny Document is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials including direct animation on archival 16mm film, woman on the street interviews, and montage editing techniques to explore the creative virtuosity of Black femme performance figures while interrogating the histories of those bodies as spaces of forced labor and commodified production. Ja’Tovia Gary is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across documentary, avant-garde video art, sculpture, and installation. Gary is deeply concerned with re-memory and employs a rigorous interrogation and apprehension of the archive in much of her work. Intimate, often personal, and politically charged, her works aim to unmask power and its influence on how we perceive and formulate reality. This program features the full version of The Giverny Document (2019), filmed on location in Harlem and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Gary unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials including direct animation on archival 16mm film, woman on the street interviews, and montage editing techniques to explore the creative virtuosity of Black femme performance figures while interrogating the histories of those bodies as spaces of forced labor and commodified production. Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist who roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema, and science fiction, Smith constructs immersive installations, moving-image works, sculpted objects, and textiles engaging with non-Western cosmologies, Afro-diasporic histories, Black cultural icons, and real and speculative utopias. This program includes three short films by Smith that span her practice: Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) (1992), a densely layered collage of images, texts, and competing voices that combine to offer a meditation on mediation, identity, and self-representation. Sine at the Canyon & Sine at the Sea (2016), a protest against what she calls “the reverberations of the neo-fascist nonsense” currently percolating in American culture. And Three Songs About Liberation (2017), filmed in Chicago as part of the exhibition “Revolution Every Day” (Smart Museum of Art, 2017-18) that Smith co-curated with our late colleague Professor Robert Bird. Cauleen Smith and Ja’Tovia Gary in conversation with Christopher Harris and Allyson Nadia Field./live/events/231127-the-speculative-archive-jatovia-gary-and-cauleen231769Mar 29, 2024 7:00 pm 10:00 pmLogan Center, Screening RoomIf you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.Apr 1, 2024: Jessica Stockholder: For EventsThis exhibition honors artist Jessica Stockholder (b. 1959) on the occasion of her retirement from the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. The installation is anchored by a single sculpture, For Events (2015), which encapsulates the artist’s decades-long consideration of how objects encounter one another: how they support themselves and are in turn supported. For Events is an elevated, s-shaped platform comprised of plywood and fiberglass—materials at once ordinary, vivid, and, as the artist has suggested, “perhaps even beautiful.” The sculpture can be taken in and appreciated at a remove or engaged as a functional stage, scalable by steps on either end. In this way, it invites viewers to enter the work, to be put on display. “I’m interested in conveying an experience having to do with the difficulty of having things cohere,” Stockholder has stated. “A lack of definition, or a possibility for expansion lurking in the background of everything we make.” For Events raises questions about categories: sculpture and architecture, artwork and viewer, object and performance, art and institution. Devised by a single artist, it asks us to consider the complexity inherent in making art independently while living, working, and thinking in relation to others. In keeping with the invitational “For” in the work’s title, the sculpture will be periodically activated by Stockholder’s former students and colleagues, including Kevin Beasley, Devin T. Mays, Gabriel Moreno, Josiah McElheny, and Anna Tsouhlarakis. It will also host various forms of engagement by University of Chicago students, faculty, and staff, ranging from impromptu meetings, course discussions, and daily rehearsals to poetry readings, music concerts, and voguing workshops. Please find the schedule of PLATFORM events on our website.  Part of the collection of the Smart Museum of Art, For Events is installed in Hutchinson Courtyard, a hub of student life grounded by the neighboring Reynolds Club student center. Situated at the heart of the University’s campus, the sculpture engages directly with its academic setting and community, instigating a campus-wide conversation around the intersection of public sculpture, experimental performance, and scholarly research.     In conjunction with Jessica Stockholder: For Events, visitors are invited to explore two related installations. The artist book-cum-sculpture Led Almost by My Tie (2007), a collaboration between Stockholder and poet Jeremy Sigler will be displayed in the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center in the Joseph Regenstein Library. CWAC Exhibitions will present a video by Alex Da Corte in the Cochrane-Woods Art Center.   Jessica Stockholder: For Events is curated by Jenny Harris, Clara Nizard, and Michael Stablein, Jr. in partnership with Logan Center Exhibitions and Art in Public Spaces. Additional support provided by anonymous donors, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry & Expression, ​the College at The University of Chicago, Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, Department of Art History, Division of the Humanities, Franke Institute Fund, Jack and Sandra Guthman, Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts, Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts, Smart Museum of Art, UChicago Arts, UChicago GRAD, UChicago Student Centers, University of Chicago Library, and the Visual Resources Center./live/events/231737-jessica-stockholder-for-events231772Apr 1, 2024May 5, 2024Hutchinson CourtyardIf you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.Apr 1, 2024: Opening Celebration for “Jessica Stockholder: For Events”On April 1, 2024, the University of Chicago will open the exhibition Jessica Stockholder: For Events accompanied by the programming series, PLATFORM, to honor world-renowned artist and faculty member Jessica Stockholder on the occasion of her retirement. Please join us from 5-7 PM for a reception featuring performances, installations, and more!  Featuring Christine Mehring, Gabriel Moreno, and Augusta Read Thomas Program begins at 5:30 PM The installation is anchored by a single sculpture, For Events (2015), which encapsulates the artist’s decades-long consideration of how objects encounter one another: how they support themselves and are in turn supported. For Events is an elevated, s-shaped platform comprised of plywood and fiberglass—materials at once ordinary, vivid, and, as the artist has suggested, “perhaps even beautiful.” The sculpture can be taken in and appreciated at a remove or engaged as a functional stage, scalable by steps on either end. In this way, it invites viewers to enter the work, to be put on display. “I’m interested in conveying an experience having to do with the difficulty of having things cohere,” Stockholder has stated. “A lack of definition, or a possibility for expansion lurking in the background of everything we make.” For Events raises questions about categories: sculpture and architecture, artwork and viewer, object and performance, art and institution. Devised by a single artist, it asks us to consider the complexity inherent in making art independently while living, working, and thinking in relation to others. In keeping with the invitational “For” in the work’s title, the sculpture will be periodically activated by Stockholder’s former students and colleagues, including Kevin Beasley, Devin T. Mays, Gabriel Moreno, Josiah McElheny, and Anna Tsouhlarakis. It will also host various forms of engagement by University of Chicago students, faculty, and staff, ranging from impromptu meetings, course discussions, and daily rehearsals to poetry readings, music concerts, and voguing workshops. Please find the schedule of PLATFORM events on our website. Part of the collection of the Smart Museum of Art, For Events is installed in Hutchinson Courtyard, a hub of student life grounded by the neighboring Reynolds Club student center. Situated at the heart of the University’s campus, the sculpture engages directly with its academic setting and community, instigating a campus-wide conversation around the intersection of public sculpture, experimental performance, and scholarly research.   Jessica Stockholder: For Events is curated by Jenny Harris, Clara Nizard, and Michael Stablein, Jr. in partnership with Logan Center Exhibitions and Art in Public Spaces. Additional support provided by anonymous donors, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry & Expression, ​the College at The University of Chicago, Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, Department of Art History, Division of the Humanities, Franke Institute Fund, Jack and Sandra Guthman, Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts, Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts, Smart Museum of Art, UChicago Arts, UChicago GRAD, UChicago Student Centers, University of Chicago Library, and the Visual Resources Center./live/events/231738-opening-celebration-for-jessica-stockholder-for231773Apr 1, 2024 5:00 pm 7:00 pmHutchinson CourtyardIf you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.Apr 10, 2024: Race & Abolition Series Part II: Prison as a BorderPlease note that this event will be in-person only. The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) and Beyond Prisons Initiative present a two part discussion series in preparation for the CSRPC Annual Public Lecture on May 8, 2024 by Professor Gina Dent, Visualizing Abolition: How to imagine a World Without Prisons. Sessions are curated and facilitated by Brianna Suslovic, graduate student at the Crown Family School of Social Work, and Beyond Prisons Fellow. How is the prison a border? How do global forces shape the dynamics of incarceration and punishment in the United States? How can scholars ethically relate to prisons as sites that reproduce hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geography? This discussion uses Angela Davis’ & Gina Dent’s “Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalization, and Punishment,” as a starting ground to address these questions. Dent and Davis discuss the history of studying prisons as well as the productive tensions between feminist and abolitionist paradigms for thinking and researching. Using the transcript of this conversation, we will discuss the global politics of incarceration, the role and limitations of scholarship in carceral settings, and the gendered forms of domination that emerge in carceral settings. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Lunch will be served!   SAVE THE DATE Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at (TIME TBA): CSRPC 2024 Annual Public Lecture featuring keynote Gina Dent on Visualizing Abolition: How to imagine a World Without Prisons. The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Annual Public Lecture features distinguished public intellectuals whose work promotes engaged thought, scholarship and praxis around the topics of race and ethnicity within the public sphere. More details here.   Who is Gina Dent? Gina Dent is Ph.D. is a Humanities Associate Dean of DEI and Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Currently, she serves as PI and Co-Director for the Mellon Foundation-funded Visualizing Abolition, a project designed to redirect social resources away from prisons by accessing the power of the arts. Her recent projects also grow out of her decades-long work as an advocate for prison abolition—Abolition. Feminism. Now. (co-authored with Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie, Haymarket 2022), and the in-progress works Visualizing Abolition (co-edited with Rachel Nelson) and Prison as a Border, on popular culture and the conditions of knowledge. She is a member of the Scholars for Social Justice and the Portal Project, and works with several organizations nationally and internationally, primarily on justice-related concerns. Learn more   This series is presented by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and Beyond Prisons, and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at UChicago./live/events/231373-race-abolition-series-part-ii-prison-as-a231379Apr 10, 2024 12:30 pm 1:45 pmCenters for Gender/Race Studies, Community Room (105)If you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.May 1, 2024: 2024 Distinguished Alumni Lecture: TreaAndrea M. Russworm, “Utopian Funk: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Failed Utopias and Black Arts”2024 Distinguished Alumni Lecture TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Ph.D. Professor in the Interactive Media & Games Division at the University of Southern California “Utopian Funk: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Failed Utopias and Black Arts” Where is utopia in games? While games are now considered to be works of art, video games have also long been considered escapist fantasies—convenient distractions, even. If such accusations could possibly be true, where do we go when we escape in the art worlds of contemporary games? When we retreat to slay dragons and zombies, conquer as soldiers of war, best our friends in games of skill and strategy, do we ever find ourselves in the classically theorized worlds that comprise the “good no places” of utopia? This lecture embarks on an earnest—and urgent—search to locate utopia in games while taking a high concept detour through the Black arts traditions of funk music, Blaxploitation film, and speculative fiction. Put another way, what can Black arts teach us about games, play, and our ever-elusive visions of utopia? Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage as we explore digital dreams, sights, and soundscapes together. TreaAndrea M. Russworm (PhD, English, 2008) is the Microsoft Endowed Chair and a Professor in the Interactive Media & Games Division at the University of Southern California. She is also the founder of Radical Play (a games-based public humanities initiative and afterschool program), and she has been a professor and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UMass Amherst. A prolific author and editor, Russworm is a Series Editor of Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture (Duke University Press). She is the author or editor of three books: Blackness is Burning; Gaming Representation; andTheorizing Tyler Perry. With research expertise in digital culture, video games, and popular African American media, Professor Russworm’s scholarship and interviews have also been shared on CNN, The History Channel, Turner Classic Movies, in podcasts, and on streaming platforms like Twitch. She is a video game Hall of Fame voter, and she is currently writing a new monograph on The Sims and a book on race and the politics of play./event/231784-2024-distinguished-alumni-lecture-treaandrea-m231784May 1, 2024 4:30 pm Centers for Gender/Race Studies, Community Room (105)If you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.May 3, 2024: 2024 GNSE BA SymposiumJoin our graduating GNSE majors as they present their BA theses, showcasing gender and sexuality across disciplines. Come celebrate the great work they’ve done this year! This hybrid event will take place in-person at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (5733 S University Ave) and on Zoom. Registration is required to attend the Zoom option (in-person attendees are not required to RSVP)./event/231386-2024-gnse-ba-symposium231386May 3, 2024 2:00 pm 4:00 pmCenters for Gender/Race Studies, Community Room (105)If you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.May 3, 2024: The Speculative Archive: Deanna Bowen & Madeleine Hunt-EhrlichSum of the Parts: What Can be Named (Deanna Bowen, 2010, 19’, digital) Deanna Bowen’s 20 minute color video work sum of the parts: what can be named (2010), is a recorded oral performance that recounts the journey of the Bowen family from its earliest documented history in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia in 1815, as told by Bowen herself. The Paul Good Papers (Deanna Bowen, 2012, 23’, digital) The Paul Good Papers was an interdisciplinary residency co-commissioned by Gallery 44 and the Images Festival of Independent Film, Video & New Media to commemorate Images’ 25th Anniversary. The project highlights the role of the Ku Klux Klan in opposing school integration and the beating of photojournalist Vernon Merritt III. Outfox the Grave (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, 2020, 5’, digital) A short film and a spell of protection. Too Bright to See (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, 2024, 25’, digital) Weaves archival materials with cinematic narrative scenes filmed with an unconventional and modern cast. Drawing inspiration from Caribbean aesthetics and Surrealist artwork, this film installation brings attention to new aspects of Roussi-Césaire’s legacy that are undocumented in the public arena, while addressing the broader question of the continued erasure of women from historical accounts. Deanna Bowen is a descendant of two Alabama- and Kentucky-born Black Prairie pioneer families from Amber Valley and Campsie, Alberta. Bowen’s family history has been the concern of her auto-ethnographic interdisciplinary works since the early 1990s. In recent years, her work has involved close examination of her family’s migration and their connections to Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley and Black Strathcona, the “All-Black” towns of Oklahoma, the Kansas Exoduster migrations, and the Ku Klux Klan in Canada and the US. Sum of the Parts: What Can be Named (2010) is a performed oral history recounting the “disremembered” journey of the Bowen family from its earliest documented history in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia in 1815, as told by Bowen herself. The Paul Good Papers (2012) is a multimedia installation and performance project based on the filmmaker’s research into the third wave Ku Klux Klan and its connections to Canada. The video being screened originated as a looping video projection based on Good’s recording of school integration attempts in Notasulga, AL in February 1964. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich is a filmmaker and artist who makes films concerned with the inner worlds of Black women. Valuing opacity and abstraction over linear narrative, Hunt-Ehrlich blends narrative and documentary elements to create surrealist interpretations of Black history and experiences—stories underrepresented in the Western film canon despite the continuous presence of Black filmmakers since cinema’s inception. Designed as an installation piece, Too Bright to See (2024) weaves archival materials with cinematic narrative scenes filmed with an unconventional and modern cast. Drawing inspiration from Caribbean aesthetics and Surrealist artwork, this work brings attention to new aspects of Suzanne Roussi-Césaire’s legacy that are undocumented in the public arena, while addressing the broader question of the continued erasure of women from historical accounts. Preceded by Outfox the Grave (2020), described by Hunt-Ehrlich as “a short film and a spell of protection.” Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich & Deanna Bowen in person, in conversation with Christopher Harris and Allyson Nadia Field. Made possible by the generous co-sponsorship of the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, Chicago Studies, the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, and the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality./live/events/231763-the-speculative-archive-deanna-bowen-madeleine231771May 3, 2024 7:00 pm 10:00 pmLogan Center, Screening RoomIf you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.