Event Category: Event cosponsored by OHC

A longstanding hub of African performing arts, Senegal was at the forefront of the explosion of contemporary dance across Africa at the turn of the twenty-first century. In her new book Dancing Opacity: Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism, and Queer Possibility in Senegal (University of Michigan Press, 2025) Amy Swanson, assistant professor of Dance Studies, Theory, and […]

Can Indigenous artists, curators, and historians resist the colonial narrative of art museums when the museum itself is a colonizer institution? Reflecting on his own experience visiting the museum on the Gila River Indian Community, David Martínez argues that the path to resistance lay in the land itself in his talk “There Is No Word […]