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Mar 22, 2023

Mar 22, 2023

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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Join us for a reading and discussion to celebrate Tara Bynum's book, Reading Pleasures. Bynum is assistant professor of English and African American studies at the University of Iowa and a scholar of early African American literary histories before 1800. After the reading, Ashley Howard, assistant professor of history at the UI, will join Bynum for a conversation and Q&A with the audience. Wednesday, March 22, 2023 7–8:30 p.m. Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa CityRSVP In the early...

Mar 30, 2023

Mar 30, 2023

4:15 PM - 5:45 PM

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This event is part of the 2023 UI Obermann Humanities Symposium & International Programs Major Projects Award: Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora. Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora brings together filmmakers, artists, scholars, and critics from across the globe in order to inaugurate a practice of collective attunement. How can we best attune ourselves to the waves set in motion by this new cinema? How does Brazil’s curren...

Mar 31, 2023

Mar 31, 2023

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

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This event is part of the 2023 UI Obermann Humanities Symposium & International Programs Major Projects Award:. Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora. Following the opening of Brazilian visual artist Aline Motta’s exhibition at the Stanley Museum, the artist Aline Motta and Brazilian curator and scholar Tatiana Carvalho Costa will share their thoughts on the works exhibited and discuss the uses of speculative fiction and archive to piece together a possible fa...

Mar 31, 2023

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

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This event is part of the 2023 UI Obermann Humanities Symposium & International Programs Major Projects Award: Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora. Join us for Cauleen Smith's captivating audio-visual performance, Black Utopia LP. Combining 35mm slide projection with the artist's vinyl LP, this 90-minute "film without film" offers a unique cinematic experience. Emerging from Smith's extensive research on Afrofuturism, this live work ruminates on history, mus...

Apr 20, 2023

Apr 20, 2023

6:30 PM

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This is the first in a series of roundtable discussions between contemporary artists working in Africa and the United States funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Work by both Cole and Youmbi is featured prominently in Homecoming, the Stanley’s inaugural exhibition. Both Youmbi—a Cameroonian artist who lives and works in Douala—and Cole—an American sculptor, printer, and perceptual engineer—make works that respond to and build upon African art-making traditions while interrogating the colonia...