“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 28, 2024   11:00 am - 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 - 11 a.m.

Body Mapping Family Workshop
Where: Independent Media Center, Sun Room
When: 11 a.m.

We are maps of embodied memories—metaphorical hills, valleys, and mountains. In this workshop, we trace our borders and reflect on whether our embodied memories are localized to specific regions or spread throughout our body’s terrain.

Welcoming & Orientation - 12 p.m. 

Performance & Panel: Culminating Reenactment I
Where: Independent Media Center, Sun Room
When: 12:30 p.m.

A collection of spontaneous choreographies will simultaneously construct and deconstruct spaces, places, and worlds. They ask: What does building space, a place, or a world mean? What materials are needed, and who controls them?
 

Core Samples and Glacier Erratics: Workshop with Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Where: IMC, Sun Room
When: 3 p.m.

In this workshop, participants will explore geological events and phenomena as an attempt to language our relationship to change, collaboration, and coalition building. With invited speaker Kameelah Janan Rasheed.

About Rasheed: A learner, Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores writing practices across all species, states of living, states of consciousness, and substrates. With an interest in the poetics and possibilities of loss, ruin, and failure in the reading and writing process, Rasheed is interested in Black knowledge production and fugitivity. You can learn more about her practice in the Aga Khan Museum - This Being Human Podcast (2023), Art 21 documentary (2021), a recent interview in Art in America (2021).
 

Tour & Reception - 5 p.m. 

Performance & Panel: Culminating Reenactment II
Where: IMC, Sun Room
When: 6 p.m.

A collection of spontaneous choreographies will simultaneously construct and deconstruct spaces, places, and worlds. They ask: What does building space, a place, or a world mean? What materials are needed, and who controls them?

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.