Visualizing Decolonization

Three Public Programs presented by FAU’s Americas Initiative in association with
Decolonizing Refinement: Contemporary Pursuits in the Art Edouard Duval-Carrié

 

 

Women’s Writings, The Economy,
and Social Justice in the Caribbean

January 14, 2019
4pm-5:30pm
Performing Arts Building
PA 101 Lecture Hall next to the Schmidt Center Gallery
A multi-disciplinary FAU faculty panel will discuss women, social justice,
music, and visual arts in Caribbean literature and the arts, that reflect
pressing gender, economic, and social issues of the region, including
South Florida communities. FAU’s Cantemos choral ensemble will present
Caribbean music.
$25 - free for FAU students/faculty

 

Visualizing Decolonization

January 19, 2019
10am-12pm
Boca Raton Museum of Art
A walk-through of Imagining Florida:
History and Myth in the Sunshine State

1pm–5pm
University Theatre, FAU
Talks and a panel discussion exploring aspects of decolonization,
headlined by artist and activist Bree Newsome (pictured above)
who in 2015 removed the Confederate flag from the
South Carolina Statehouse.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

 

Decolonizing Across Disciplines
in the Americas Symposium

January 26, 2019
8am-5pm
Performing Arts Building
PA 101 Lecture Hall next to the Schmidt Center Gallery
This symposium brings together scholars from FAU and
other Florida institutions to examine and discuss decolonization.
This event expands upon the discussion begun at FSU, where the exhibition,
Decolonizing Refinement: Contemporary Pursuits in the Art of
Edouard Duval-Carrié was originally presented.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

 

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