Join us for a full-day symposium that will explore sex, power, and justice through intersectional art and activism, academics, and healing. Presenters will look at the oppressions and violations stemming from colonialism, slavery, and couverture. The symposium brings academic study, intellectual discourse, and visceral candor together to create a shared space and continue conversations about re-orienting narratives. We hope to rectify, reclaim and move towards healing.
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Schedule
10:00 a.m.
Breakfast Hour coffee, tea, bagels, and fruit
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Rape and Representation
The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women's Art in the U.S.
Presenter: Monika Fabijanska, (Independent Curator)
Sexing the Canvas: The Rape of the Black Female Body in Art
Presenter: Indira Bailey (Penn State School of Visual Arts)
12:30–1:30 p.m.
Lunch on your own
1:30–3:30 p.m.
Screening of Descent (2007) starring Rosario Dawson, written and directed by Talia Lugacy (Eugene Lang) Q and A with the filmmaker - Screening will take place in room UL 105.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Taking Back the Narrative
Panel: Jasmine Wahi (Project for Empty Space, SVA), fayemi shakur (writer for The New York Times, independent artist), Amy Khoshbin (artist and healer), The Black Women’ Blueprint
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Dinner on your own
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Sexual Justice
Conversation and Performances
Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will (1975)
Carolina Franco Ph.D. Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities
Performances
IV Castellanos
Ayana Evans
Katya Grokhovsky
Maria Hupfield with Ursula Johnson
Wine and cheese reception to follow
Presented by Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School
Image: The exhibition catalog, Monika FabijanskaThe Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S.