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“Our bodies are also occupied territories. Perhaps the ultimate goal of performance, especially if you are a woman, gay or a person ‘of color,’ is to decolonize our bodies and make these decolonizing mechanisms apparent to our audience in the hope that they will get inspired to do the same with their own.” -Guillermo Gómez-Peña

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A Feminine Palette: Women Artists of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Presented by the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden

Friday, March 5th at 6:30 PM

Panelists Dr. Katherine Manthorne of City University of New York’s Graduate Center; Catherine Coleman Brawer, M.A. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and Ph.D student Whitney Thompson, also of City University of New York’s Graduate Center, discuss the work of three [...]

They Won’t Budge: African Diaspora in Europe

Panel Discussion & Film Screenings Exploring African Migration in Europe

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts & The Africana Studies Program at New York University proudly present:

Sunday, November 15, 2009

PANEL DISCUSSION 10am—1pm

PART I: “Multivocal Identities of Africans in Europe”

PART II: “Metropolis: Africans and Mass Urbanization”

MEMBERS OF THE PANEL INCLUDE:

Awam Amkpa
Associate Professor, Drama/Social and Cultural Analysis [...]

RECAP: Biopolitics of the ‘Modern Body’: Contemporary Dilemmas

Emily Martin, Ed Cohen and Rebecca Young

“Biopolitics of the ‘Modern Body’: Contemporary Dilemmas”
Ed Cohen, Rutgers University
Emily Martin, New York University
Rebecca Young, Barnard College
@ the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU
October 7, 2009

This forum moderated by Emily Martin with Ed Cohen and Rebecca Young brought together their work in [...]