"Choreographing 'Justice': Dance, Performance and Activism in Contemporary Colombia (Roundtable)

Name: "Choreographing 'Justice': Dance, Performance and Activism in Contemporary Colombia (Roundtable)
Start: 2025-02-24T17:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-24T19:00:00-06:00
Location: John J. Louis Hall, SLIPPAGE Lab/Room 226

Monday, February 24, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT

John J. Louis Hall, SLIPPAGE Lab/Room 226, 1877 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

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Roundtable on the role of dance and theater in struggles for racial and social justice and against racism.

With María del Rosario Acosta López (Hispanic Studies, University of California, Riverside), José Medina (Philosophy), Sofía Sánchez (Spanish and Portuguese), and members of Sankofa Danzafro dance company (Colombia), Winter 2025 Artist in Residence of the Dance Program in the Department of Theatre and Kaplan Humanities Institute.

Co-presented by Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Black Arts Consortium, Critical Dance Studies Cluster, SLIPPAGE Lab, and Kaplan Humanities Institute.

Cost: Free

Audience

Faculty/Staff
Student
Post Docs/Docs
Graduate Students

Contact

Jill Mannor (847) 467-3970

jill.mannor@northwestern.edu

Group

Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

Co-Sponsor(s):

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Interest

Academic (general)