The Black Rep presents "Two Trains Running" opening January 8, 2020
Edison Theatre at Washington University in St. Louis
The Black Rep presents "Two Trains Running" opening January 8, 2020
Edison Theatre at Washington University in St. Louis
In August Wilson's masterpiece, history unfolds around everyday lives against the backdrop of the civil rights movement. Long-time regulars gather at the local diner in Pittsburgh's Hill District to gossip, flirt and play the numbers. Now the owner must decide whether to let the city take over his building or sell it to a shrewd, local businessman. Part of Wilson's trailblazing American Century Cycle, Two Trains Running paints a compassionate and unforgettable portrait of ordinary people in the midst of transformation.
Blackface Broken Records: On the Eve of the Blues Feminist Experiment
Daphne A. Brooks, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, and Professor of Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University - Faculty Book Celebration 2020
Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum
Blackface Broken Records: On the Eve of the Blues Feminist Experiment
Daphne A. Brooks, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, and Professor of Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University - Faculty Book Celebration 2020
Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum |
This talk threads together an exploration of women in blackface minstrelsy, race riots of the Progressive Era, the classic black women’s blues craze and the origins of one of the world’s most famous musicals. In particular, it questions the ways that African Americans navigated an early 20th-century popular culture that policed and restricted their sounds. Ultimately, it asserts that the struggle over radicalized sound in the 1910s was a battle waged between women artists — black and white, in the north and in the south, and on the eve of a blues music revolution.
Memory/Race/Nation: The Politics of Modern Memorials
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall Room 201
Memory/Race/Nation: The Politics of Modern Memorials
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall Room 201 |
Mabel O. Wilson, the Nancy and George Rupp Professor at the GSAPP and a professor in the African American and African Diasporic Studies Department at Columbia University, will deliver a lecture titled Memory/Race/Nation: The Politics of Modern Memorials as part of DISCUSSIONS in Architectural History and Theory. Coordinated by Eric Mumford, the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, and Igor Marjanović, the JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor of Architecture, the DISCUSSIONS series is aimed at provoking advanced conversations on research in architectural history and theory.
MOFAD x Gastro Obscura Presents: Recipes for Respect
MOFAD x Gastro Obscura Presents: Recipes for Respect
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As part of a new online programs partnership between MOFAD and Gastro Obscura, please join us for a virtual event on Sunday, May 3 at 8:00 PM E.T., where Dr. Zafar will be in conversation with Chef Therese Nelson of BlackCulinaryHistory.com.
Two Pandemics, One Election: Race, Identity, and the Future of Democracy
HUMANITIES BROADCAST
Two Pandemics, One Election: Race, Identity, and the Future of Democracy
HUMANITIES BROADCAST
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Framed against the backdrop of the Vice-Presidential debate, this conversation will consider the impact of how political candidates’ identities shape the conversation with an increasingly diverse electorate. This includes political agendas, media discourse, the emergence of new groups as political players, and new forms of backlash. This roundtable will pay special attention to intersections between racial, ethnic, immigrant, and gender identities.
In partnership with the Clark-Fox Policy Institute and the Center for Race, Ethnicity & Equity.
PANELISTS
Sayu Bhojwani, PhD, Founder & CEO, New American Leaders
Charli Cooksey, MEd, Founder & CEO, WePower
Hedy Lee, PhD, Professor of Sociology & Associate Director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity & Equity, Washington University
Rebecca Wanzo, PhD, Professor & Chair, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Washington University
MODERATOR
Adrienne Davis, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Diversity, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law, Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity
The City is Burning! Street Economies and the Juxtacity of Kigali, Rwanda
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Samuel Shearer is assistant professor of African & African American studies at Washington University. Organized by the Center for African Studies, University of Copenhagen and the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research.
Virtual
The City is Burning! Street Economies and the Juxtacity of Kigali, Rwanda
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Samuel Shearer is assistant professor of African & African American studies at Washington University. Organized by the Center for African Studies, University of Copenhagen and the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research.
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Juxtacities: Urban Difference, Divides, Authority and Citizenship in the Global South
Multiple differences and their dynamic juxtapositions and divides, are foundational to urban life, space and governance. But how are such differences and divides (re)produced, articulated and/or contested, and what are their effects on urban authority and citizenship? These are key questions explored in this special issue of Urban Forum.
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Q&A with director Ashley O’Shay, moderated by Tila Neguse, project coordinator of the Divided City Initiative, Center for the Humanities, Washington University.
Virtual
‘Unapologetic’ Screening & Discussion
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Q&A with director Ashley O’Shay, moderated by Tila Neguse, project coordinator of the Divided City Initiative, Center for the Humanities, Washington University.
Virtual
For nearly three decades, Edward “Nardie” White has led an after-school community drum corps (River City Drum Corp) in Louisville, Ky., drawing on Pan-African culture and music to reach and mentor youth in his West End neighborhood. Now in his 60s, Mr. White feels he must step down to allow the drum corps to evolve with a new generation. River City Drumbeat is the story of Mr. White’s final year and the training of his successor, Albert Shumake, a young man whose troubled life was transformed by the drumline. St. Louis International Film Festival.
In 2020, SLIFF films are available for screening virtually; check each film for screening dates as they vary.
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Q&A with directors Anne Flatté and Marlon Johnson, moderated by Andy Uhrich, curator of Film & Media at Washington University Libraries.
Virtual
‘River City Drumbeat’ Screening & Discussion
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Q&A with directors Anne Flatté and Marlon Johnson, moderated by Andy Uhrich, curator of Film & Media at Washington University Libraries.
Virtual
For nearly three decades, Edward “Nardie” White has led an after-school community drum corps (River City Drum Corp) in Louisville, Ky., drawing on Pan-African culture and music to reach and mentor youth in his West End neighborhood. Now in his 60s, Mr. White feels he must step down to allow the drum corps to evolve with a new generation. River City Drumbeat is the story of Mr. White’s final year and the training of his successor, Albert Shumake, a young man whose troubled life was transformed by the drumline. St. Louis International Film Festival.
In 2020, SLIFF films are available for screening virtually; check each film for screening dates as they vary.
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Q&A with director Sam Pollard and co-writer/producer Benjamin Hedin, moderated by Lerone Martin, director, American Culture Studies, and associate professor, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University.
Virtual
‘MLK/FBI’ Screening & Discussion
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Q&A with director Sam Pollard and co-writer/producer Benjamin Hedin, moderated by Lerone Martin, director, American Culture Studies, and associate professor, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University.
Virtual
MLK/FBI, the first film to uncover the extent of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., tells an astonishing and tragic story with searing relevance to our current moment. Based on newly discovered and declassified files, the film uses a trove of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and unsealed by the National Archives to explore the government’s history of targeting Black activists and the contested meaning behind some of our most cherished ideals. $10. St. Louis International Film Festival.
In 2020, SLIFF films are available for screening virtually; check each film for screening dates as they vary.
Drawn Apart: Rebecca Wanzo and Lauren Mcleod Cramer in Conversation about 'The Content Of Our Caricature'
VIRTUAL - RSVP
Drawn Apart: Rebecca Wanzo and Lauren Mcleod Cramer in Conversation about 'The Content Of Our Caricature'
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Definitively addressing the problem with debates about “good” and “bad” black representation, The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging (New York University Press, 2020) explains what happens when Black cartoonists revisit and reanimate the archive of the racial grotesque. Black comics and cartoons that appeared in black newspapers at the beginning of the twentieth century, underground comix independently produced and distributed in the 1970s and today’s big-budget film adaptations of superhero comics share complex imaginings of the political potential and limitations of caricature. Wanzo’s book reads the work of a rarely acknowledged lineage of Black cartoonists alongside comic and cartoon figures of American citizenship—images of the romantic revolutionary, the soldier and the child. Black comics recall the ways blackness is rendered incommensurable with American citizenship when it shares the frame with these idealized tropes and, instead of abandoning this history of representation, they leverage its elasticity. As a result, using horror and humor, Black cartoonists visualize critiques of American visual culture that are not bound by time, space, or medium.
In conversation about The Content of Our Caricature will be author Dr. Rebecca Wanzo, Chair and Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Affiliate Professor of American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and Dr. Lauren McLeod Cramer, Assistant Professor in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Ron Himes, the Henry E. Hampton, Jr. Artist-in-Residence in the Performing Arts Department, and Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr., associate professor of African & African-American studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, both at Washington University
Virtual
#realchange: Baldwin and the American Theatre
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Ron Himes, the Henry E. Hampton, Jr. Artist-in-Residence in the Performing Arts Department, and Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr., associate professor of African & African-American studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, both at Washington University
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The event focuses on contributions to the American theater by noted African-American playwright, novelist, essayist, poet and activist James Baldwin. The event features “A Conversation with Dick Cavett.” In a conversation with The Black Rep’s Ron Himes (the Henry E. Hampton, Jr. Artist-in-Residence in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University), Dick Cavett will elaborate on his historic 1969 interview with James Baldwin, as well as discussing what he might ask Mr. Baldwin in 2020 about race in the current climate of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The evening also includes performance excerpts from Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie and The Amen Corner featuring The Black Rep’s professional acting intern company members. There will also be a panel, hosted by Himes that includes panelists Michael Dinwiddie, associate professor of dramatic writing at New York University; Nkenge Friday, assistant vice chancellor for strategic initiatives at UNL; Woodie King, Jr., founder/producing director of New Federal Theatre; and Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr., associate professor of African & African-American studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University. It’s time for a #realchange.
The speakers will address housing voting, racial violence, and ethical land use. The members of the panel are:
John Cruz, Data Management Coordinator at Rise STL
Caitlin Lee, Researcher, Writer & Designer
Marguerite Madden, Director of the Center for Geospatial Research and Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia
Gena Gunn McClendon, Director of Voter Access Engagement and the Financial Capability and Asset Building Initiatives at the Center for Social Development
Geoff Ward, Professor of African and African-American Studies, Sociology, and American Culture Studies at Washington University
For additional workshops related to Geography Awareness Week 2020, November 16–20, follow this link.
Opacity, Rézonans, Biguidi: Music and Dance as Decolonial Praxis in the French Caribbean
Jérôme Camal, assistant professor of anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Virtual - RSVP
Opacity, Rézonans, Biguidi: Music and Dance as Decolonial Praxis in the French Caribbean
Jérôme Camal, assistant professor of anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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To what extent can music and dance support decolonial transformation in the face of ongoing (post)colonial duress? Born from the French Caribbean crucible, Guadeloupean gwoka has always-already been a music and dance practice both of and against colonialism. In the 20th century, gwoka became the cultural weapon of anticolonial activists. Today, even as dreams of independence recede in the collective political imaginary, gwoka continues to provide an embodied practice through which many Guadeloupeans confront their position as postcolonial, non-sovereign, citizens of the French imperial state. Based on over a decade of dancing and playing music alongside Guadeloupeans on both sides of the Atlantic, this presentation outlines the potential and limits of gwoka as an embodied, decolonial, epistemology. Foregrounding the importance of technique, Jérôme Camal asks, What kind of knowledge does music carry? Can this knowledge counteract centuries of colonial assimilation? How do structures of power shape who has access to this knowledge and, importantly, what are the implications for a decolonial anthropology?
