You are invited to join the Latin American Studies Working Group (LASWG) meetings.which will take place via Zoom this semester on Mondays from 12pm to 1pm ET. Papers will be circulated one week before each meeting along with a Zoom link, and the sessions will be dedicated to sharing feedback.
We are excited to announce the first event of the academic year for the Latin American History Speaker Series.
You are invited to join the Latin American Studies Working Group (LASWG) meetings.which will take place via Zoom this semester on Mondays from 12pm to 1pm ET. Papers will be circulated one week before each meeting along with a Zoom link, and the sessions will be dedicated to sharing feedback.
From diverse academic disciplines, we use a gender analysis to understand, transform, and repair the social world. For many of us, activism is entwined with our research and teaching agendas. In LAIGN’s second conference, we want to make a space to recognize and imagine new convergences between the political and intellectual in gender studies. Considering the professional body in its subjective and collective dimensions, what bodies are considered legible in our activist and academic processes and spaces?
Geoff Kie, Laguna Pueblo, will be presenting on their journey as a storyteller through creative media to their own Geoff Kie Productions company and what it means for their community.
Royce K. Young Wolf (Hiraacá [Hidatsa], Nu’eta [Mandan], and Sosore [Eastern Shoshone]) is the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in Native American Art and Curation between Yale’s Department of the History of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery, as well as a Yale University Presidential Visiting Fellow. Her work as an Indigenous-language activist has inspired her artistic practice and doctoral research.
The artist Marie Watt (Seneca), M.F.A. 1996, discusses her work with Anna Smist (Sac and Fox and Seminole), B.A. 2021, in a virtual conversation on Zoom. The conversation is one of a series of events in the “Woman/Artist” conference hosted by Yale’s Department of the History of Art. Offered in conjunction with the Yale University Art Gallery’s exhibition On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale and in recognition of the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College and the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first women students to the University.
The artist Howardena Pindell, M.F.A. 1967, discusses her work with Kymberly Pinder, Ph.D. 1995, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art, in a virtual conversation on Zoom. The conversation is one of a series of events in the “Woman/Artist” conference hosted by Yale’s Department of the History of Art.
The sculptor Leslie Hewitt, M.F.A. 2004, discusses her work with Courtney J. Martin, Ph.D. 2009, Director of the Yale Center for British Art, in a virtual conversation on Zoom. The conversation is one of a series of events in the “Woman/Artist” conference hosted by Yale’s Department of the History of Art. Offered in conjunction with the Yale University Art Gallery’s exhibition On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale and in recognition of the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College and the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first women students to the University.
The artist Ann Hamilton, M.F.A. 1985, discusses her work with Jenni Sorkin, Ph.D. 2010, Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in a virtual conversation on Zoom. The conversation is one of a series of events in the “Woman/Artist” conference hosted by Yale’s Department of the History of Art.
