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Kayla Hamilton Artist Talk
Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of Dance, Obermann Center, and Public Space One.

Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora — 2022-23 Obermann Humanities Symposium & IP Major Projects Award
Thursday, March 30 to Saturday, April 1, 2023 (all day)
2022-23 UI Obermann Humanities Symposium & International Programs Major Projects Award: Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora
From March 30 to April 1, "Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora" will feature filmmakers, translators, and film scholars from the Afro-Brazilian diaspora. Organized by Christopher Harris (Cinematic Arts) with partnership from Cristiane Lira (University of Georgia) and Brazilian filmmaker Janaína Oliveira, the...

Frequências Keynote Lecture by Janaína Oliveira
Thursday, March 30, 2023 3:15pm to 4:15pm
This is a keynote Lecture by Janaína Oliveira, Federal Instituto of Rio de Janeiro. Introduction by Christopher Harris.
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Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora — March 30–April 1, 2023
2022-23 Obermann Humanities Symposium
Taking Brazil’s new Black cinema as its point of departure, Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora brings together filmmakers, artists, scholars, and critics from across the globe in order to inaugurate a practice of collective attunement. How can we best attune ourselves to the waves set in motion by this new cinema? How does Brazil’s current Black cinema resonate within contemporary aesthetic practices of the Black diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, North America and Europe? In what ways do these new formations of global cinemas refract our understanding of the post-colonial and of diaspora?