Speakers: Moji Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica.
Moderated by: Jocelyn Viterna, Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University.
Jamaica is famous for being uniquely homophobic. While homophobia is real, epithets like Time magazine’s “the most homophobic place on earth” not only misrepresent reality but also posit LGBTQ+ Jamaicans exclusively as victims.
Zeynep Tek Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Assistant Professor of Modern Turkish Literature, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University
Zeynep Tek is assistant professor at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and teaches courses on modern Turkish literature, poetry analysis, critical literary theories, and the relationship between literature and cinema. She is interested in literary dream narratives, the satirical press, comparative literature, gender and women...
Join us for a talk and screening with art historian Melissa Ragain who will speak on the work of Robert Fulton, including Reality’s Invisible (1971) and Wilderness: A country in the mind (1984), and an early history of the Carpenter Center. This program takes place on the occasion of the Carpenter Center's 60th anniversary exhibition This Machine Creates Opacities: Robert Fulton, Renée Green, Pierre Huyghe, and Pope.L...