BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5114-b92981c123b126bee36902e0886ab7e6@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260521T153439Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T130000 SUMMARY:Humanities Institute: Resident Lecture Series - Abigail E. Celis DESCRIPTION:\nAbigail E. Celis\, Marian Trygve Freed Early Career Profes sor in French and Francophone Studies\, Assistant Professor in African S tudies\n\n"\;Bringing Home the Body: Mame-Diarra Niang&rsquo\;s  \;Ethé\;ré\;e"\; \;\n\nDakar\, 2014. In a backyard g arden\, artist Mame-Diarra Niang digs a grave and sits beside it for an afternoon\, folding paper maps \;of an imagined sanctuary. Niang orc hestrated this performance\, called \;Ethé\;ré\;e\, in r esponse to a hate crime: the disinterment of a queer Senegalese man&rsqu o\;s corpse from a local cemetery. Niang&rsquo\;s performance offers an imagined space of belonging for those who\, like the young man and like herself\, might be denied the final resting place of the earth&rsquo\;s embrace because they are considered less than fully human. This talk wil l analyze \;Ethé\;ré\;e \;to lift out the different threads that Niang weaves together\, showing how the queer homecoming th e performance enacts is entwined with colonial histories of segregating and categorizing bodies. The performance&rsquo\;s quiet labor of mournin g\, I ultimately argue\, seeks to repair not only the pain of alienation \, but recalibrate the biocentric and anthropocentric vision of &lsquo\; the human&rsquo\; that animated colonial strategies of domination.\n\nRe gister \;here.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/ hi-residentlectureseries_0323/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Abigail E. C elis, Marian Trygve Freed Early Career Professor in French and Franc ophone Studies, Assistant Professor in African Studies

" ;Bringing Home the Body: Mame-Diarra Niang’s Et hérée" 

Dakar, 2014. In a backyard garden, artist Mame-Diarra Niang digs a grave and sits beside it for an afternoon, folding paper maps of an imagined sanctuary. Niang orch estrated this performance, called Ethérée, in respons e to a hate crime: the disinterment of a queer Senegalese man’s co rpse from a local cemetery. Niang’s performance offers an imagined space of belonging for those who, like the young man and like herself, might be denied the final resting place of the earth’s embrace bec ause they are considered less than fully human. This talk will analyze&n bsp;Ethérée to lift out the different threads that Ni ang weaves together, showing how the queer homecoming the performance en acts is entwined with colonial histories of segregating and categorizing bodies. The performance’s quiet labor of mourning, I ultimately a rgue, seeks to repair not only the pain of alienation, but recalibrate t he biocentric and anthropocentric vision of ‘the human’ that animated colonial strategies of domination.

Regis ter here.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/even t/hi-residentlectureseries_0323/

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