Multimedia
“The Geneva Project,” a dance and multimedia performance inspired by Professor Laura Wexler’s Photogrammar project, was one of the highlights of the first annual conference hosted by Public Humanities at Yale, part of the American Studies Program.
The conference was held April 10–12, 2016 and inaugurated the creation of the North Eastern Public Humanities Consortium. “The Geneva Project” performance is one of two conference events open to the public free of charge; the other is a program of presentations about similar initiatives at partner institutions.
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Professor Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Buffalo University (http://transnationalstudies.buffalo.edu/people/staff/mt-pleasant/), discusses her work at the intersections of Native American Studies and Public History, including indignity in what is now upper New York, and the challenges arising from dialogic community research and public presentation in Native Studies. Recorded in Yale’s Public Humanities graduate seminar in 2010.
Professor John Kuo Wei Tchen, NYU (http://sca.as.nyu.edu/object/JohnTchen) discusses the genesis and development of the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA). Recorded in Yale’s Public Humanities graduate seminar in 2011.
Journalist Deepa Fernandes (http://www.scpr.org/about/people/staff/deepa-fernandes), immigrants’ rights activist Kica Matos (http://www.communitychange.org/real-people/people/staff/), and Professor Alicia Schmidt Camacho (http://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/alicia-schmidt-camacho) discuss immigrants’ rights and the the precocity of life as an undocumented immigrant. Recorded at the New Haven Free Public Library, 2010.)
Jorge Bustamante, Special Repporteur on Migrant’s Rights for the United Nations, 2005-2011 (http://sociology.nd.edu/people/jorge-bustamante/) leads a bilingual public discussion on immigrants’ rights at Center Church on the Green, New Haven, 2009.
Professor Josh Kun, USC (http://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/communication-journalism/josh-kun) presents his work on popular music and Jewish American identity at the New Haven Free Public Library, 2008.
Poet Robert Viscusi reads from “Ellis Island” and “An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus” at the New Haven Free Public Library on Columbus Day, 2008. In two parts.
Poet Robert Viscusi reads from “Ellis Island” and “An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus” at the New Haven Free Public Library on Columbus Day, 2008. In two parts.