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Oct
10
2014

The End of Violence in Urban Landscapes

When: Friday, October 10, 2014
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: 1902 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Krzysztof Kozubski  

Group: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Co-Sponsor: Program of African Studies

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Buffett Center Faculty & Fellows Colloquium
The Tactics of Beauty, The Alchemy of Blackness, and The End of Violence in Urban Landscapes

D. Soyini Madison, Performance Studies

D. Soyini Madison focuses on the intersections of local activism, the political economy of human rights, and indigenous performance tactics. Her latest book, Acts of Activism: Human Rights and Radical Performance, is based on how local activists in Ghana, West Africa employ modes of performance, as tactical interventions, in their day-to-day struggles for women’s rights, water democracy, and economic justice. Madison is interested in how applying a performance analytic, to local and public acts of activism, generates a poetics of understanding and an embodied epistemology concerning how activism is constituted, its dimensions of imagination and creativity, and its rhetoric and politics.

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