November 14–15, 2014
REDCAT
631 W. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
West Hollywood Public Library
Common Room
625 N. San Vincente Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
aestheticsandpolitics.calarts.edu
Curated by MA faculty Douglas Kearney, this year’s conference will continue the MA program’s investigation into contemporary digital culture from a Black Studies perspective.
Friday, November 14
REDCAT
8:30–10pm
Keynote address: “Feenin’: R&B’s Technologies of Humanity”
Lively multimedia talk by writer and scholar Alexander Weheliye, professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University
Saturday, November 15
The West Hollywood Public Library
9:30–10:15am
“A New North Star?: An orienting conversation”
10:25am–noon
Panel 1: “3/5S Of A Profile?: The Black Cyber Body”
With Jennifer González, Simone Browne, and Victoria Hungerford
1:25–3pm
Panel 2: “The Stoop 3.0: Community Remixed For the Digital Present”
With Anna Everett and Stephanie Greenlea
3:20–5pm
Panel 3: “Talking Cloud: (Re)Memory, Dis-Memory, and the New-Old Archive(s)”
With Thomas Allen Harris and Tisa Bryant
5:15–6pm
Concluding discussion
The MA Aesthetics and Politics offers a one-year degree that encourages interrogations of the arts and politics in an expanded field. Students specialize in Critical Theory, Global Studies, or Media and Urban Studies, and get up close and personal with key contemporary artists and thinkers, including Theorist-in-Residence Judith Butler (spring 2015) and guest lecturer Jacques Ranciere (spring 2015).
We are currently accepting applications for fall 2015. Apply here. Financial aid packages are available in the form of scholarships, grants, research assistantships, and teaching assistantships.
For general questions, or to schedule an information session, please contact Admissions Counselor Seth Blake at [email protected] or T +1 661 253 7716.
