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Race and Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine – Sherene Seikaly in Conversation with Gina Dent

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

How do we understand conflicting claims to land and its relationship to colonialism outside of constricted paradigms of exceptionalism and the structures of the nation-state?  What can be learned about the global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession through critical analysis of the historical and present struggles in Palestine? At this event, author and […]

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Samora Pinderhughes & Elena Ayodele Pinderhughes Performance – Maria Gaspar’s Compositions’ “We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat”

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

In conjunction with Compositions, on view at the IAS, Maria Gaspar’s sculptural renderings of the jail’s fragments have been sonically and visually activated through performances over the course of the exhibition as part of Gaspar's work We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat. These events make present the histories of people so often occluded […]

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