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.
$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 Theater, 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. Exhibition viewing and Reception
Schmidt Center Gallery.

 

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 Florida Atlantic University
and other Florida institutions to examineand discuss decolonization.
This event expands upon the discussion begun at FSU,
where the Decolonizing Refinment exhibition was originally presented.

 

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