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"The Weapon of Mass Instruction," a mobile public art installation in Buenos Aires. This week, the Spooner Hall Commons will host "Trans/forming Activist Media in the Americas." a symposium exploring activist movements
Activist media symposium brings artists, scholars to KU
▶ COURTNEY BIERMAN
@courtbierman
The Spooner Hall Commons will welcome a series of artists and scholars this week for a symposium titled "Trans/forming Activist Media in the Americas."
The symposium, organized by three University professors, will explore how activist movements in the Americas are influenced by the migration of people and ideas across various forms of media, electronic or otherwise.
"What we originally were really looking at is that over the last two decades or so, the development and spread of digital technologies in particular has presented some new
possibilities for activist media broadly, whether at the kind of informational or news level, or at the kind of disruptive, artistic activist media level," said Joshua Miner, a professor in film and media studies.
Miner contributed by adding documentaries and speakers to the schedule that highlight the struggles of indigenous communities. Other events focus on issues such as environmental destruction, education, housing, mass incarceration and the media that activists use to spread related information. Notable performers include rapper Bocafoja and keynote speaker Maurice Rafael Magaña.
Joo Ok Kim, another symposium organizer and a
professor in the department of American Studies, said Trans/forming Activist Media shows that the internet is not the only form of activism available to students.
"I also wanted a venue in which to center ground-up, grassroots youth activism in a context where we might not necessarily think about it unless you're studying radical activisms or contemporary Mexican culture or different formations of Latin American histories," Kim said. "It seemed really significant to foreground a conversation like that, especially in a place like Kansas."
For more information visit the conference's Facebook event or website.
5:00pm Thursday,
Oct. 27 | The
Schedule of events
4:00pm Friday, Oct. 28 | The Commons Roundtable: Re/Generation of Activist Media Commun-
Source: Conference website
Commons
Film Screening, Reading, and Discussion: Activist Responses to Violence Against Indigenous Women, with Tanaya Winder, Sierra Two Bulls and Melissa Holder
ties in the Americas with Tauya Winder, Robert Warrior, Timothy Robbins, Dave Roediger and Betsy Esch
5:30pm Friday, Oct.
28 | The Commons
Documentary Screening and
Spoken Word Set: Nana chio;
Irresolute Rediography of
Black Consciousness with Bocallot
10:00am Saturday, Oct. 29 | The
Commons Interactive Performance and Discussion: Gregg Dead
Commons
Interactive, Performance and
Discussion Reach The Fugitive
Chronicles with Kai Barrow
11:15am Saturday Oct. 29 | The
2:00pm Saturday,
Oct. 29 | The
Commons
Roundtable: Transmedia
Strategies in Current Activism
with Gregg Deil, Bocafloria,
Kai Barrow, Victoria Perdomo
and Susy Chaver
3:45pm Saturday, Oct. 29 | The
Commons
Keynote: Youth Artists and the Radical Imagination of the Oaxacan Social Movement of 2006 with Maurice Rafael Magana
5:30-7:30pm
Saturday, Oct. 29 |
Bird Dog Bar, Oread
Hotel
Closing Reception: free foo
and a cash bar
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