“Beneath Our Feet: Grounded Space, Place, and Worldmaking” | Interseminars

Event Type

Other

Sponsor

Humanities Research Institute

Location

Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (202 S. Broadway Suite 100; Urbana, IL 61801)

Date

Sep 29, 2024   1:30 - 8:00 pm  

Contact

Humanities Research Institute

E-Mail

info-hri@illinois.edu

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Originating Calendar

HRI

This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." View the full schedule and programming details.

Doors Open - 1 p.m.

Tour - 1 p.m.

Closing Collage & Movement - 3 p.m.
Where: Independent Media Center, Sun Room Exhibition Walls

After three days of creating, improvising, and intervening, this will be a space to bring those pieces together and create a collage collaboratively as a community. We invite participants to close the space with some gentle movement as we mark the page in our book of collective worldmaking. 

Community Dinner Reception - 4 p.m.

Improvise & Intervene Collective:

• Jackie Abing [Anthropology, Fellow, Audio & Text Coordinator]
• Joe Bowie [Dance, Fellow, Welcome & Embracing Lead]
• Etienne Fields [Recreation, Sport and Tourism, Fellow]
• Gabriel Gonzalez [Dance, Fellow]
• Maryam Kashani [Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, Convener
• Nathalie Martinez [Anthropology, Fellow, Audioscape Lead]
• Marina Moscoso [Geography, Fellow]
• Joseph Obanubi [Art & Design, Fellow, Art and Spatial Direction and Curational Lead]
• Junaid Rana [Asian American Studies, Convener]
• Sayak Roy [Geography, Fellow]
• Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada [Latina/o Studies, Convener]
• Dora Watkins [Social Work, Fellow, Curational Lead]

The Interseminars Initiative is supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Humanities Research Institute, 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.