Join us on December 3 for a talk by Gabriel Peoples, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at IU Bloomington. His recent book, Goin’ Viral: Uncontrollable Black Performance, explores the contours of gender expression, race, and sexuality in visual culture, film, and viral video, particularly in relationship to Black people and representations of Black people that have gone viral from the eighteenth century to today.
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Last September, the critic and theorist Fredric Jameson died. This Fall, the Theory Center Reading Group reflects on what Jameson’s work means for us today. We focus on the problems Jameson returned to again and again, as he sought to fashion a Marxist cultural criticism adequate to his changing times: the legibility of history, the possibilities of a dialectical criticism, and the concepts of totality, reification, utopia, and periodization.
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Year of the Cat (2025) follows filmmaker Tony Nguyen on an extraordinary quest to solve the mystery of his father, lost in the chaos of the Fall of Saigon 50 years ago. CAHI will host Nguyen for a screening of his film on November 13 at the Wells Library Moving Image Archive, screening room 048.
Learn moreCAHI cares about the research and creative activity of our faculty and graduate students in the arts and humanities. We offer several funding opportunities to support this vital work, including research fellowships, travel grants, and Global Gateway grants. We also provide funds to support conferences, performances, exhibitions, workshops, and more.
Banner image: Opening reception for Light/Matter: The Intersection of Photography and Printmaking, an exhibition at the Grunwald Gallery, Fall 2017.
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