MAD - Mellon Arts Dialogues
April 11, 2023, 6:30pm est
OKWUI OKPOKWASILI
Performer, Choreographer & Writer
in dialogue with
SAIDIYA HARTMAN
University Professor-English and Comparative Literature-Columbia University
Registration is required for admission
http://bit.ly/3l1N4NN
Location: Columbia University Faculty House
2nd floor Seminar Level
64 Morningside Drive NY, NY 10027
Speaker Bios
Okwui Okpokwasili is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces. The child of immigrants from Nigeria, Okpokwasili was born and raised in the Bronx, and her performances draw on the histories and imagined futures of places and women whose voices have long been overlooked and continue to be marginalized. She has received many awards for outstanding performance including the Bessie Award, and the MacArthur Genuis Grant Award.
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Saidiya Hartman is University Professor, and a Professor English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. A MacArthur fellow, Prof. Hartman has published essays on photography, film and feminism. She is the author of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-making in Nineteenth Century America (new 25th edition just released), Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. She has published articles on slavery, the archive, and the city, including “The Terrible Beauty of the Slum,” “Venus in Two Acts” and “The Belly of the World.” She has been a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, a Whitney Oates Fellow at Princeton University, and a Rockefeller Fellow at Brown University.
Presented in co-sponsorship by
Mellon Foundation and Columbia University Mellon Arts Project
Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies- Columbia University (AAADS)
Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University (IRAAS)
