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Date(s) - 10/06/2016
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The Archipelagoes, Oceans, Americas research group will host a 2-day symposium on October 6-7, 2016. Events will take place throughout the day on both Thursday and Friday in various locations.
This symposium offers a critical opportunity to reflect on contemporary currents in archipelagic and oceanic thought within the humanities, inviting participants to imagine a variety of terraqueous futures. For more information about the Symposium: AOA Symposium 2016.
Institutional Sponsors: Humanities Center, BYU; English Department Reading Series, BYU; Fine Arts Department, BYU; Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers–New Brunswick
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Noon Lunch on campus 4010 JFSB
12:30pm Opening Remarks 4010 JFSB
Brian Russell Roberts (Brigham Young U)
1:00–3:00pm Session One Moderator: Aaron Eastley (Brigham Young U) 4010 JFSB
- Susan Stanford Friedman (U of Wisconsin–Madison) “New Planetarity: Thinking with Archipelagoes, Oceans, and Continents”
- Michelle Stephens (Rutgers–New Brunswick) “Arc’d Relations: Rethinking Hispanic Caribbean Art from an Insular Archipelagic Lens”
- ‘Anapesi Ka’ili (Mana Academy, West Valley City) Title TBA
- Scott Miller (Brigham Young U) “Reciprocating Hegemons: How Settlers on a Remote Japanese Archipelago Weathered Back-and-Forth US and Japanese Occupations over Nearly Two Centuries, and What We Can Learn from It”
3:00–3:45pm Break/refreshments 4010 JFSB
4:00-4:50pm Archipelagic/Oceanic Art Exhibition tour for symposium participants (HBLL)
Tour conducted by Fidalis Buehler (Brigham Young U)
Exhibition artists:
- Charlie Cohan (U of Hawai‘i–Mānoa)
- Cody Arnall (Texas Tech U)
- Tiana Birrell (Art Institute of Chicago)
- Fidalis Buehler
5:00-6:30pm Session Two: Artist Talks (Library auditorium)
7:00–9:00pm Group dinner at La Jolla Groves
Image: Fidalis Buehler, Bali Hai-Series 2. Used with permission
