CENTER  FOR  EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY

futures unbound | 2020-2021 theme

UPCOMING EVENTS

ETHNOGRAPHY IN EDUCATION RESEARCH FORUM

Friday-Saturday February 26-27 2021
This year’s theme focuses on the complexities associated with race and inequity that have historically defined social systems in the U.S. and globally. Ethnographic research has created interdisciplinary pathways to think expansively about how culture is understood, entwined with related concepts, and revised to weigh critical questions of race, racism, and multiple forms of inequality. Ethnographic scholarship has examined the everyday lives, hardships, and forms of resistance within historically marginalized communities and has provided nuanced analyses that delineate the intersections of these issues with problems of educational access and social (in)equity.

REGISTER HERE: The Forum will be a free and online program. 

DANCERS' CHOICES, CHOREOGRAPHERS CHOICES

March 3, 2021 at 1PM & 5PM EST
Participatory Dance & Choreography Workshop on "Choice"
March 3, 2021 (Wednesday) / 1:00 pm—2:00 pm
ONLINE EVENT- REGISTER HERE


Dancers' Choice Choreographers' Choices
March 3, 2021 (Wednesday) / 5:00 pm
ONLINE EVENT - REGISTER HERE

FEBRUARY THIRD THURSDAY WITH RICARDO BRACHO

 FEBRUARY 18th AT NOON

On Thursday, February 18th  at Noon,  Ricardo Bracho introduced Haikus and held a conversation with Jennifer Ponce de León.

Ricardo A. Bracho is currently Sachs Artist-in-Residence in the Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies program here at Penn, where he teaches creative and critical writing. His plays have been staged read, workshopped, and premiered in theaters and at universities nationwide.  He has a committed focus on working with feminist, queer, Latiina/o, community-based, and experimental theaters including Mabou Mines, INTAR, and Company of Angels.

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MARCH EVENTS

MADAN SARA

MAR 8 AT 6 PM
Film Screening + Discussion

On International Women's Day 2021, the Center for Experimental Ethnography is pleased to present filmmaker Etant Dupain's feature "Madan Sara: Pouvwa Fanm Aysiyen" (Madan Sara: The Power of Haitian Women) followed by a discussion between Etant Dupain (Director, Madan Sara), Dr. Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (Associate Professor of French and the Graduate Program Director at Boston College), and Lunise Cerin (Editor, Madan Sara). REGISTER HERE

DOCUMENTING DISCONTENT

DEC 15 AT 6 PM
Documenting Discontent is a virtual audio event that will take place on March 15th at 5:30 PM. This one-hour virtual event will bring together two Mexico-based sound artists/researchers, Karina Franco Villaseñor (nê.i) and Vladimir Flores García (Vlax) to discuss their creative practices in sound. Funded in part by a Sachs Arts Innovation Grant and with support from the Center for Experimental Ethnography, this event is interested in the ways sound is used to document microhistories. READ MORE

LATEST NEWS: CEE #23

CEE #23

A new issue of CEE News is out, check out the CEE #23 to meet new CEE Affiliated Faculty member Julia Alekseyeva, to learn about funding opportunities, and to tune into a slew of February and March events!
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FEBRUARY THIRD THURSDAY

On Thursday, February 18th  at Noon,  Ricardo Bracho introduced Haikus and held a conversation with Jennifer Ponce de León. Ricardo A. Bracho is currently Sachs Artist-in-Residence in the Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies program here at Penn, where he teaches creative and critical writing.  LEARN MORE

Spring 2021 FELLOWS

Dr. Jenny Chio

Jenny Chio is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Keep reading... 

Reggie wilson

Reggie Wilson is Executive and Artistic Director, Choreographer and Performer of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group.  His work draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas and is combined with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he sometimes refers to as "post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances." Keep reading...

INTRODUCING THE VISUAL IDENTITIES iN ARTS AND DESIGN RESEARCH GROUP (VIAD)

The CEE  and The Visual Identities in Arts and Design Research Group at the University of Johannesburg are forging exciting transatlantic connections. Established in 2007, the VIAD research group is dedicated to deepening research around the overarching thematic of identity construction through forms of visual practice, visual culture and visual representation, and specifically in relation to African and Afrodiasporic histories and experiences. Learn more

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