[UrbanStudiesCircular] FRIDAY, 9/18: KATRINA AFTER MAPS
[cid:1558600d-c473-4465-adc8-55f5d53cf2c5] ON BEHALF OF FRIENDS OF THE CPCP: Friday, September 18th, 4:30-7:30pm, Elebah Recital Hall & Lobby, 365 Fifth Avenue Katrina After Maps--10 Years On: A Discussion of Unnatural DisasterConversation and Performance Marking the 10th year since Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Katrina AfterMaps includes discussions and performances that interrogate what happens when places and cities are katrinaed-impacted by a critical juncture of natural calamities and socially-orchestrated disaster. What remains? What must be made anew? Exploring the devastation of a Katrina as an ongoing and proliferating process resulting from concerted economic and socio-political pressures which impact all aspects of public and private life. Activists, writers and artists Kalamu ya Salaam, Climbing PoeTree, Nicole Cooley and Stacy Parker Le Mellewill join in conversation and performance and will speak of the displaced and those longing for return. Schedule: 4:30-5:00 pm: Hurricane Season Performance by Climbing PoeTree 5:10-6:10 pm: Haunted Art Infrastructures Panel: Kalamu ya Salaam, Climbing PoeTree, Nicole Cooley, Stacy Parker Le Melle, Moderator: Tonya M. Foster 6:30-7:30 pm: Kalamu ya Salaam (Keynote) Co-sponsored by the Critical Psychology Cluster; the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC), The Public Science Project. Free and open to the public.The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue [cid:bc7a8acc-9448-4921-80e1-bf7b67686ae2]
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