{"id":579,"date":"2017-10-20T16:27:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T23:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-hemsouths-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=579"},"modified":"2017-10-20T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T23:27:19","slug":"2014-2015-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/?page_id=579","title":{"rendered":"2014-2015 Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia Grise Performance Talk<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 in the Studio Theater (Department of Theater and Dance<\/p>\n

Join\u00a0Chican@ Studies and Hemispheric South\/s in welcoming Virginia Grise, a Chicana cultural worker and theater artists and recipient of the 2013 Whiting Writers\u2019 Award, 2010 Princess Grace Award in Theater Directing, and 2010 Yale Drama Series Award, to UCSB.<\/p>\n

Grise will give a performance talk titled \u201cTheatre of the Rowdy: A Performance Talk\u201d on Wednesday, April 15 at 6 p.m. in the Studio Theater, Department of Theater and Dance.<\/p>\n

There will also be a book reading and signing of\u00a0The Panza Monologues<\/em>\u00a0on Friday, April 17 at 6 p.m. at Casa de la Raza, 601 E Montecito St., 93103<\/p>\n

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Grisha Coleman Workshop and Talk<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Workshop on March 4, 2015, at noon in Theater and Dance West room 1502 and the talk is the same day at 5:30 pm in the Sankey Room<\/p>\n

The English department\u2019s Hemispheric South\/s and Literature and the Mind initiatives are excited to announce a workshop and talk by Grisha Coleman, Assistant Professor in Arts, Media and Engineering and affiliate faculty in dance at Arizona State University.<\/p>\n

The workshop is organized around \u201cEmbodying the Improvisatory,\u201d and will take place next Wednesday, March 4 at noon. Please see the attached flyer for more details about the RSVP and location. Space is limited.<\/p>\n

Dr. Coleman will also be presenting a talk at 5:30 p.m. on March 4th in the Sankey Room (SH 2623) titled \u201cListening as the land talks back: ecology, embodiment and information in the science fictions of echo.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yoruba Spiritualities and Global Acts Conference<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On Friday, February 27, 2015, in Theater and Dance West room 1507<\/p>\n

Hemispheric South\/s and the UCSB department of Theater and Dance announce\u00a0the Yoruba Spiritualities and Global Acts Conference.<\/p>\n

Tarrell McCraney\u2019s award-winning play\u00a0In the Red and Brown Water<\/em>\u00a0features characters who boldly embody the Yoruba gods.This conference explores the power of Yoruba cosmologies to heal historical trauma by connecting Black communities worldwide. The creative and scholarly offerings link black identity and cultural expression in Africa and the Americas, exploring and substantiating concepts of diaspora.<\/p>\n

Schedule:<\/p>\n

UCSBTheater\/Dance West 1507<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 PM:<\/strong>\u00a0FREE Opening performance<\/strong>\u00a0(followed by Q&A with the artist): Silfredo La O Vigo\u2019s unique brand of Afro-Cuban dancing seamlessly blends orichas, rumba, contemporary dance movement, and visual art.
\n<\/strong>The remaining events will all take place in\u00a0the Multipurpose room, \u00a0<\/strong>first floor, SRB.<\/strong><\/p>\n

4:30:<\/strong>\u00a0Keynote Address<\/strong>\u00a0by<\/p>\n

Dr. Hershini Bhana Young<\/strong>\u00a0(SUNY Buffalo), \u201cThe Vulnerability of Horizonality:<\/p>\n

Wura-Natasha Ogunji\u2019s \u2018Will I Still Carry<\/p>\n

Water when I am a Dead Woman?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

5:30: Panel: \u201cOrishas in Africa and the Americas\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

-Dr. Roberto Strongman (Black Studies), \u201cThe Vodou art of Hector Hyppolite\u201d<\/p>\n

-Haddy Kreie (Theater\/Dance), \u201c\u201dSlavery and the Emergence of Vodun: \u00a0Race, Trauma, Protection, and Healing in Spiritual Systems of Southern Benin\u201d<\/p>\n

-Hee-won Kim (Theater\/Dance), \u201cWhere the Body Floats and the Laughter Stops: Liminal Space and Transgressive Bodies in In The Red and Brown Water and The Shipment\u201d<\/p>\n

6:30:<\/strong>\u00a0Dinner Reception<\/strong><\/p>\n

Featuring a short Q&A with Shirley Jo Finney, Guest Director, UCSB production of\u00a0In the Red and Brown Water<\/em><\/p>\n

8:00:<\/strong>\u00a0Attend\u00a0opening night<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0In the Red and Brown Water<\/em>\u00a0(Hatlen Theater)<\/p>\n

Conference Organizers:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. Christina McMahon, Dr. Stephanie Batiste, and Haddy Kreie<\/p>\n

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Reading by Deborah Miranda<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 8 pm in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020). Light refreshments served!<\/p>\n

Hemispheric South\/s is excited to announce an upcoming event with Deborah Miranda, author of\u00a0Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir<\/em>\u00a0(2013),\u00a0The Zen of La Llorona<\/em>(2005), and\u00a0Indian Cartography<\/em>\u00a0(1999). Miranda is currently the John Lucian Smith Term Professor of English at Washington and Lee University.<\/p>\n

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Poetry Workshop<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On\u00a0Friday, January 30\u00a0from\u00a01:30-4 p.m.\u00a0in the HSSB McCune Conference room.<\/p>\n

The workshop is part of a two-day visit co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the American Indian and Indigenous Peoples Research Focus Group at UCSB. Undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to RSVP. The flyer for the poetry workshop is posted below:<\/p>\n

Hedge Coke will be giving a reading of\u00a0Streaming<\/a>, her newest release, at the IHC\u2019s McCune Conference room at\u00a04 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0Thursday, January 29<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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