Wednesday, March 28th, 6:30 pm
Moving Archives
Iemanjá Brown, Oxana Chi, Jaime Shearn Coan, Jill Strauss, Layla Zami
Martin E. Segal Theatre

Join the Center for the Humanities for a cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural event in an innovative and open format featuring dance, talks, poetry, film excerpts and music.

How do we access the past from a present perspective and in the hope of a future? This event explores the role of the body in embodying historical trauma, and in performing and transforming sociopolitical relations. Bringing together artists and scholars of diverse gender identities and various backgrounds (including Jewish European, Italian-American, and African-European), this evening centers the relations between individual and institutional archival processes. Building from the experiences gained at the International Symposium: Moving Memory organized by Layla Zami and Oxana Chi at Technical University in Berlin in 2016, this international gathering offers scholars, students, artists, and any interested individuals the possibility to learn, exchange, and network.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality (IRWGS) at Columbia University, and the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Free and open to the public. All events take place at the Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave btwn 34th & 35th. The building and the venues are wheelchair accessible. For more information please visit http://centerforthehumanities.org/ or call 212.817.2005 or e-mail ch@gc.cuny.edu