“Seeing, Hearing, Speaking: Rendering Life through Images and Words” I began acting in theater and in film, and writing fiction. Then I began to write plays and direct them. Together with a group of artists, …
“Language’s Migration” Based on the concept of the migration of languages, this workshop seeks to reflect on a project in which an idea is translated/ transposed/made to migrate from one language to another, interrogating in …
Screening and Discussion “Brujaja” Brujaja tells the story of Ifé, an accidental witch, who, after living above her mother’s botánica her whole life, finally finds her purpose by tapping into her ancestral power to fight the larger fight …
“The art of risking self when writing / directing / performing autoethnographically” DuPrey and González will draw from their experiences as Latinx artists to lead students in discussion and small group activity meant to aid …
Lecture: “‘Why is the world organized this way?’: Cinema, Cinephilia, and the Global 1960s via Bombay” How do our understandings of world cinema and cinephilia shift when approached through an account of Bombay films’ prolific …
Workshop: “Visual Cultures in Transregional Contexts” In contrast to “world” or “transnational,” what does “transregional” offer as a frame of analysis in cultural histories and in accounts of the present? This interactive workshop invites attendees …
Lecture: “Aunty Aesthetics, or More Ways to be an Aunty” South Asian aunties in public culture are figures bound to horror, hunger, and humor. They are known to be terrifying figures, domineering and difficult, overbearing to younger generations. …
Workshop: “Divas, Drag Queens, Aunties, and Other Academic Personas” The academy requires us to perform, to conduct our bodies in a governed and regimented way, to speak and dress and travel and teach according to …