Diasporic Futures: Agency and Memory

Friday, February 28, 2025, 6 - 9pm

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Diasporic Futures

Please join HSS Assistant Professor of Humanities Victor Peterson II and Civic Projects Lab Director Mokena Makeka on Friday, February 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM in the Civic Projects Lab for the Diasporic Futures: Agency and Memory symposium.

This symposium is on the occasion of the Diasporic Futures: Agency and Memory exhibition, which runs from February 27th through 29th.

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Toy models of the world allow us to study agency and question the parameters fixing the social, cultural, and civics at play. Join us to explore how diasporic networks and the memories that articulate them push the horizon of cultural study.

HOST: 
Mokena Makeka, Director, Civic Projects Lab.

PARTICIPANTS: 
Victor Peterson II (Humanities and Social Sciences, Cooper Union) 
Jordan Cuffie (SkullForge Studios)
Salome Asega (Direct @ NEW INC, The New Museum) 
Neeti Sivakumar (HEAR US - Tisch Creative Research Initiative)

Located at 41 Cooper Square, on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets.

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