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Feb
24
2025

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

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

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

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

Cost: Free

Contact: Jill Mannor   (847) 467-3970

Group: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

Co-Sponsor: Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Category: Academic

Description:

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.

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