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Kofi Bazzell-Smith Artist Talk for Interseminars Symposium on “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas"

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Interseminars Steering Committee/HRI
Location
Room 208 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St., Urbana, IL
Date
Sep 16, 2023   10:10 am  
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Kofi will be presenting an artist talk on Saturday, September 16 at 10:10am in Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, along with an installation available from 8:30am-8pm that day in Levis 424. Full details of the symposium program can be found here:  https://hri.illinois.edu/interseminars-event-series/interseminars-symposium. The symposium is the culmination of an 18-month interdisciplinary collaboration among selected graduate fellows and faculty coordinators (Josue David Cisneros, Patrick Earl Hammie, and Jorge Lucero), supported by the Humanities Research Institute and funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Graduate College, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation.  


Symposium Schedule

All events are free and open to the public. If you will need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in an event, please contact HRI. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Keynote: Carolyn Fornoff (Latin American Studies, Cornell University)
4:00 P.M.   |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

Performance: Adanya Gilmore/Zachary Nicol
7:00 P.M.  |  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Room 2-500

Film Screening: Beatriz Jiménez
Film: Ruido (Noise)
8:15 P.M.  |  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Room 2-500

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Installations
Available all day, 8:30 A.M. to 8:00 P.M.

  • Daniela Morales Fredes - Levis Faculty Center, Room 108  

  • María Serrano-Abreu - Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

  • Kofi Bazzell-Smith - Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

Continental breakfast
8:30 A.M. | Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

Panel: Interseminars Faculty & Fellows
9:00 A.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

Artist Talk: Kofi Bazzell-Smith
"Bridging Boundaries: Exploring Cultural Fusion Through Manga, Language, Aesthetics, and Narrative"
10:10 A.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Performance: Ramón E. Martínez (Ray)
"English Only Space: Invisible colonization and the deconstruction of cultures"
11:10 A.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Research Talk: Daniela Morales Fredes, Allyson Purpura, and Kasia Szremsk
11:50 A.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Lunch Provided
12:30–1:30 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

Research and Installation Talk: María Serrano-Abreu
"School Closings in Puerto Rico and Speculative Memory" 
1:30 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

Individual and Joint Talk: Nicole Campbell and Emerson Parker Pehl
Individual talks followed by joint performance
2:30 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Talk: Beatriz Jiménez
"Shifting the narrative: Women's voices at the forefront in Natalia Beristain's Ruido (2022)"
3:50 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Stage Reading: Toyosi Tejumade-Morgan
"Playing down, Playing Up" and Forum
4:30 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Keynote: Natalie Loveless (History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Alberta)
5:30 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

Reception and Book Launch
7:00 P.M.  |  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Reception will be catered by La Mixteca.

The Interseminars Initiative is supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Graduate College, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation.

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