Next Event:
Works-in-Progress: Hannah Burdette, "Speculative Uncommons: Worldbuilding Stories across Abiayala (the Americas)"
Friday, February 7th, 12:00 PM, PAC 113
This talk will provide an overview of my current book project, which considers how and why authors from different backgrounds throughout Abiayala (the Americas) draw on Indigenous stories to imagine worlds otherwise. Through the lens of what I call speculative uncommons, my analysis emphasizes... Read More
Visiting Scholar: Diana Khoi Nguyen, Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 13th, 5:30 PM, Arts Recital Hall, ARTS 150
What is an image, and what can text entail? We will pay close attention to the nuances of these two words before excavating how they have been employed and evolved on the page over time. We will expand our original notions of these two crucial media, and how they can engage with each other. What happens at the intersection of image and text in creative work? Read More
*Diana Khoi Nguyen will also be having a craft talk on Thursday, February 13th, 2:00 PM, AYRS 120.
University Film Series: Candyman
Tuesday, February 25th, 6:00 PM, Ayres Hall, AYRS 106
A spiritual successor to the 1992 film of the same title, 2021’s Candyman is a deep meditation on the haunted—and haunting—legacy of urban gentrification and anti-Black violence in Chicago. Written by Jordan Peele (Get Out), Win Rosenfeld, and Nia DaCosta (The Marvels), the film also meditates on the role of Black art and responsibility of... Read More
University Film Series: Memories of Love Returned
Tuesday, March 4th, 6:00 PM, Ayres Hall, AYRS 106
Written and directed by stage, television, and film actor Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine (The Chi; Blood Diamond; Treme; The Lincoln Lawyer), Memories of Love Returned is a documentary twenty-two years in the making, after Mwine experienced a car breakdown in a small Uganda village in 2002, where he met the photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo. The film examines... Read More
Visiting Scholar: Justin McDaniel, "Affixing Gold to Ghosts: Corpses, Funerary Cultures, and Horror in Buddhist Southeast Asia"
Thursday, March 6th, 5:30 PM, Ruth Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, PAC 134
Westerners often regard Buddhism as a religion of peace, meditation, and compassion. While this is often true, it ignores the horrific and phantasmagoric side of many Buddhist rituals and beliefs. Those include practices such as meditating on corpses, strolling through giant Hell Gardens filled with terrifying images, and telling stories about haunting and... Read More
University Film Series: Kwaidan
Tuesday, April 29th, 5:00 PM, Ayres Hall, AYRS 106
One of the most important Japanese films ever made, Kwaidan is an anthology horror film loosely based on four Japanese folk stories collected and published by Lafcadio Hearn in 1904. The four unrelated stories in Kwaidan feature some of the most stunning imagery ever made in horror films, resulting in the Special Jury Prize at... Read More
