This symposium will feature remarks by Prison Obscura curator Pete Brook, and a roundtable discussion with U-M faculty members.
PRISON OBSCURA SHEDS LIGHT ON THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Featuring Lola Von Miramar and performance of a new piece developed during the symposium “Carnivale”.
Featuring Silvia Pedraza “Sugar: Before and After the Revolution in Cuba”, Mbala Nkanga “Performative Reading of Aime Cesaire Writing”, and performance of a new piece developed during the symposium “Revolutions”.
Featuring “Why Speak Your Language” Multi-Lingual Poetry Jam, and performance by Awilda Rodriguez Lora "La Mujer Maravilla: INDIA$ deluxe edition."
Panel Discussion - Caribbean Identities and Languages / Conjuring the Caribbean: How Sweet It Is Symposium
Featuring a film screening of Sugar Cane Alley led by Mbala Nkanga and a performance by Nadine George of “Annie Palmer”
Panel Discussion + Lecture / Conjuring the Caribbean: How Sweet It Is Symposium
Symposium # Performance # Installation
December 7 to December 11, 2015
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Join artists, scholars, and students in a five day exploration of Caribbean tourism, histories and gender identities. The symposiums calls for an interdisciplinary response to shifting imaginations about the power and potential of Caribbean studies viewed through the lens of a sugar-saturated past.
Penny Stamps Speaker Series lecture by New York-based performance artist Karen Finley.
Daylong conference examining diverse research perspectives on clinical indications of child abuse.