Ellen Anderson (playwright) Melinda Palacio (poet and novelist) D.J. Palladino (novelist and journalist) Sojourner Kincaid Rolle (poet and playwright) Thursday, April 21, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Four local creative writers will discuss the ways in which notions of place have shaped their work. In “Loving Detroit Like...
Farai "Fafi" Bere (a.k.a 3 Percent) Thursday, April 21 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Lounge A Zimbabwean born academic and musician, Dr. Farai Bere focuses on what he calls Black performativity, the performance of Blackness as a political force and how Black performance can be said to embody...
Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Thursday, April 21 / 4:00 pm 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building This lecture focused on a certain trajectory in recent works by documentary filmmaker Madhusree Dutta: her preoccupation with the triad city-cinema-publics to...