The Department of Women’s Studies at UC Irvine presents the sixth year of its quarterly roundtable series on keywords--contested terms with overlapping, sometimes catachrestic, meanings that recur in various and divergent contexts. Past keywords included: embedded, regulation, area, offshore, private, immunity, pain, transparency, and public. This roundtable will focus on a critical interrogation of the term “movement.”
ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS:
L.M. S. P. Burns, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Asian American Studies
University of California Los Angeles
Marne Campbell, Ph.D.
President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of History
UC Riverside
Prof. Sheron Wray
Dept of Dance, UCI
Performance Architect:
http://sheronwray.com/
MODERATOR: Jeanne Scheper,
Assistant Professor,
Women's Studies UCI
L. M. S.P. Burns is an Assistant Professor at UCLA's Department of Asian American Studies, where she teaches courses on Filipino American studies, Asian American theater, and race and gender in performance. She is completing a manuscript titled Puro Arte: On the Filipino Performing Body. For this roundtable session, she will be speaking to the intersection of cultural production and/in the Philippine and Filipino American anti-Martial Law movement.
Dr. Marne L. Campbell completed her Ph.D. in History at UCLA in 2006 and is presently a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UC, Riverside. Her book manuscript focuses on race and gender in Los Angeles from 1850 - 1910. For the roundtable she will draw from her research on issues of labor, politics, and culture through the intersection of this diverse community with other communities of color that integrates an extensive database of black families in the region.
Sheron Wray's creative work foregrounds the use of improvisation and collaboration as found within, but not limited to, jazz music, avant guard theater and African dance. Her recent work includes directing the work of activist playwright Mojisola Adebayo whose work reflects the tensions of racial and sexual identity, location and the imaginings of freedom. She is a self-described Performance Architect, encapsulating choreography, directing and performing. She has made work with Wynton Marsalis, Julian Joseph, Derek Bermel and most recently a commission for the Ghana Dance Ensemble. The use of technology as a literal and metaphorical tool for adding further agency to the creative process is the current locus of her research. |