We, the third Interseminars cohort, materialized our collisions (across color lines) in a vessel, or three. And what is a vessel, but… a boat, slipping towards spaces of contestation and intersection—
a vessel is poetry, moving through borders that breathe, fight, and sometimes bleed.
A vessel is a life conduit, where community matters,
where blood’s quiet tides carry both communion and fracture,
of shared gasp, of dangerous crossings.
It contains, it shoulders, it moves, it sustains,
it transports like arteries:
life-giving, life-bearing, life-stealing,
cradling “resistance, refusal, and re-existence.”
Please join us in our anti-panel conversations about our vessel works. During this segment of the culminating event, we will interact and think through the concepts of resistance, refusal, and re-existence across color lines.
The conversation will run 5:00-5:45, then join us for vessel interaction and a reception.
This event is part of the Interseminars culminating event: Collisions Across Color Lines: Reconsidering Racism, Movements, and Epistemes in the Americas. Free and open to the public.
Collisions Across Color Lines Cohort
- Yasmine Adams (Anthropology, Fellow)
- Grace Eunhyn Bae (Art Education, Fellow)
- Jose Figueroa Díaz (Spanish, Literature and Culture, Fellow)
- Omar Agustin Hernandez (Anthropology, Fellow)
- Samantha Jenae Jones (Design for Responsible Innovation, Fellow)
- Erik S. McDuffie (African American Studies and History, Convener)
- Nik Owens (Dance, Fellow)
- Ann Xiaoxu Pei (Comparative Literature, Fellow)
- Gilberto Rosas (Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies, Convener)
- Gisela Sin (Political Science, Convener)
- Leonardo Ventura (History, Fellow)
- Tooma H. Zaghloul (Urban and Regional Planning, Fellow)
The Interseminars Initiative is supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Humanities Research Institute, the Graduate College, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation.