Yoko Ono’s participatory work ‘Mend Piece’ transforms the simple act of repairing broken objects into a powerful meditation on collective healing, resilience and the possibility of mending a fractured world, writes Graduate Student Fellow Kristin Emanuel.
Graduate Student Fellow Hoyon Mephokee (Art History & Archaeology) shows how a French cultural production of the late 19th century blurred distinct forms of “otherness,” repurposing familiar racial frameworks to render a new culture legible — and more readily folded into imperial power.
Literary scholar Sanja Bahun (University of Essex) will deliver the first in the Center for the Humanities’ new lecture series, which aims to foster dialogue, encourage interdisciplinary thinking and deepen understanding of the critical global challenges facing humanity today.
In her current book project, Faculty Fellow Esther Viola Kurtz takes a look at how Black jazz musicians in St. Louis have navigated the challenges of sustaining an art form the world consumes but rarely economically rewards.
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Lecture with Sanja Bahun, Executive Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor in the Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
Workshop with Sanja Bahun, Executive Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor in the Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
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