The FREE Center will welcome Macarena Gómez-Barris, Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor & Chair in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, to Ohio State on March 4th.
Professor Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latinx epistemes, media environments, racial ecologies, cultural theory and artistic practice. She is the founding director of the Global South Center at the Pratt Institute in New York City, and is the author of four books and dozens of essays.
In the morning, Professor Gómez-Barris will be in conversation with Professor Aaron Katzeman, writer, curator, and Assistant Professor of History of Art at The Ohio State University.
Following the conversation will be a lunch for graduate stuents with Profs. Gómez-Barris and Katzeman
In the afternoon, Professor Gómez-Barris will give a public talk, Pacific Sea Edge Remnants, Memories, and Movements.
This talk will focus on thinking with and alongside art practices and performances that reside in the non-binary space between land and sea. Complicating environmental humanities and the figure of the human in relation to militarism, memories, diaspora, and queerness, Prof. Gómez-Barris will explore about what it means to be situated alongside the Pacific, and the more than human in impossible and catastrophic times.
Schedule:
10:30 - noon: Moderated conversation with Prof. Aaron Katzeman 198 Hagerty Hall
Noon - 1:00pm: Graduate student lunch and conversation with Profs. Gómez-Barris and Katzeman
3:00 - 4:30pm: Public facing talk Thompson Library, Multipurpose Room 165
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