April 15: CED-ESG End-of-the-Year Event

“Arts, Culture, Politics & The Future(s) of American and Ethnic Studies at Northwestern”

Friday, April 15, 2011

4:30-6:00 PM

Reception following presentations & discussion

Presentations: Kresge 2-380
Reception: Kresge 2-370

In what ways are art and culture sites of resistance and social justice? How do scholars, activists, and artists connect “local” with “global”? What is Ethnic Studies and how is it pedagogically and politically useful?

 Professor Frances Aparicio

         (Latina/o Studies, Spanish & Portuguese)        

"From Boricua Dancers to Salsa Soldiers: The cultural politics of global salsa dancing in Chicago"

Professor E. Patrick Johnson

(African American Studies, Performance Studies)

"Gospel And/As Diaspora Performance: The Café of the Gate of Salvation"

Professor Nitasha Sharma

(African American Studies, Asian American Studies)

"Indie Rappers, Democratizing Technologies, and Critiques of U.S. Empire"

Sponsored by the Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED) and the Ethnic Studies Graduate Student Committee (ESG) with financial support from the Departments of African American Studies and History; Programs in American Studies and Asian American Studies; Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities; Chabraja Center for Historical Studies; The Graduate School; Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. For more information, please contact Phonshia Nie or James Zarsadiaz at northwesternced@gmail.com or visit http://northwesternced.blogspot.com.