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Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas | Culminating Symposium

Sep 15, 2023 - Sep 16, 2023   All Day
Levis Faculty Center, KCPA
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Supported by the Mellon Foundation
Contact
Humanities Research Institute
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info-HRI@illinois.edu
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Campus Humanities Calendar

Join the Interseminars Initiative’s first cohort for a symposium brimming with scholarly panels, installations, exhibitions, and performances, concluding with a reception and book release celebration. View the complete symposium schedule

Nine graduate student fellows showcasing 18 months’ worth of interdisciplinary experiments, findings, speculations, and pedagogical suggestions.

Keynote speakers: 
Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University), Friday, September 15, 4 p.m.
Natalie Loveless (University of Alberta), Saturday, September 16, 5:30 p.m.

Special guest performance by Chicago-based dancer Zachary Nicol, Friday, September 15, 7 p.m., KCPA 

With: Kofi Bazzell-Smith (Art & Design) ● D. Nicole Campbell (Communications) ● Josue David Cisneros (Communications) ● Daniela Morales Fredes (Urban & Regional Planning) ● Adanya Gilmore (Dance) ● Patrick Earl Hammie (Art & Design) ● Beatriz Jiménez (Spanish and Portuguese) ● Jorge Lucero (Art & Design) ● Ray Martinez (Spanish and Portuguese) ● Emerson Parker Pehl (English) ● María B. Serrano-Abreu (Educational Psychology) ● Toyosi Tejumade-Morgan (Theatre)

Supported by the Mellon Foundation.

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