Performance & Violence Against Women panel @ Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference!

Today, The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference begins!

 

I’ll be participating in tonight’s evening of performance (description below) & a roundtable panel tomorrow morning on Violence Against Women, where I’ll be sharing my thoughts on how transformative justice contributes to the discussion!

 

Happy Friday!

 

FRIDAY Feb. 15

 

Re :: Circulation: a re-cycled pecha kucha, re-assembled by Ching-In Chen, explores unplugging from current systems of monetary exchange// a futuristic gift economy, where services (creations) are exchanged without the possibility of immediate or future rewards. This project re-circulates the “wealth” of other writers and artists (including Van Tran, Bhanu Kapil, Sylvia La, Noah Purifoy, Flora Kao, Thomas Matsuda, Myung Mi Kim, Chantala Kommanivanh, Pepón Osorio, Soyeon Cho, Kristin Naca, Chelsea Wait, Susu Pianchupattana, and the re-assembler’s past creations) by engaging in acts of alteration, collage, sampling, re-mixing, collaboration and re-purposing.

 

6:00-8:00pm

An Evening of Performances

The Gasthaus Pub on the lower level of the UWM Student Union

(with pizza/drinks for registered conference participants at 5:30pm)

Introduction by Brittany Cavallaro, UW-Milwaukee (Creative Writing)

• “Transition 2B” by Collette Stewart, UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts (Dance)

• “Act Natural!” by Toby Wiggins, York University (Gender, Feminist, & Women’s Studies)

• Currently untitled film, by Ben Balcom, UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts (Film, Video, Animation & New Genres)

• “Comedy Routine” by Andrew Salyer, UW-Madison (Art Theory and Practice)

• Poetry reading by Kara van de Graaf, UW-Milwaukee (Creative Writing)

• “Nostalgia” by Kiam Marcelo Junio, visual and performance artist

• “Emergent Economies, Queer Circulations” by Ching-In Chen, UW-Milwaukee (English, creative writing)

 

SATURDAY Feb. 16

Violence Against Women, Interdisciplinary Approaches and Failure at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM):  Discussion Panel, Curtin Hall 108

Moderator: Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, UW-Milwaukee School of Public Health

• RaeAnn Anderson, UWM, Psychology

• Ching-In Chen, UWM, English Creative Writing

• Nelida Cortes, UWM, Urban Studies

• Jessica Milli, UWM, Economics

• Laura Voith, UWM, Social Work