Dear CSWAC,

 

Our in-person, winter CSWAC general meeting is confirmed! Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by Thursday, 1/19/23 to help us get an accurate headcount.

 

Thursday, 1/26/23 from 12 – 1:30 pm

Rice Room, 6764 Boelter Hall ([log in to unmask],-118.4449344,17z/data=!3m1!5s0x80c2bc862bab4d7f:0x774239b741b4817f!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2bc88829ce92b:0x2a860301f429d90b!8m2!3d34.0692388!4d-118.4432392">see map)

 

A more detailed agenda will be forthcoming. Faculty mini-presentations will be given by:

 

Anurima Banerji, Associate Professor

World Arts and Cultures/Dance

Presentation: The Impossibility of Indian Classical Dance

 

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Associate Professor

Film, TV and Digital Media

Presentation: Body Parts feature documentary

 

BIOS:

ANURIMA BANERJI is Associate Professor and current Graduate Vice Chair in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. She is the author of the monograph Dancing Odissi: Paratopic Performances of Gender and State (Seagull Books/University of Chicago Press, 2019), recipient of the 2020 de la Torre Bueno Prize awarded by the Dance Studies Association. With Dr. Violaine Roussel, she co-edited How to Do Politics with Art (Routledge, 2017). Currently she is working on a new book project, The Impossibility of Indian Classical Dance, as well as co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance with Dr. Prarthana Purkayastha.
As a poet and trained Odissi dancer, Banerji shares the faculty’s important goal of bridging the worlds of academia and art. Her research principally concerns critical historicizations of Indian dance and its relationship to the state. Banerji’s work is situated in the fields of dance and performance studies, and informed by an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach based on insights from postcolonialism, critical race theory, feminist and queer thought, and studies of class, regionalism, and religion in India.

KRISTY GUEVARA-FLANAGAN has been making documentary and experimental films about gender, the Latinx community, and representation for nearly two decades. Her first feature-length film, Going on 13 (2009, Co-Directed by Dawn Valadez), covers four years in the lives of four adolescent girls and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Her next feature, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2013), traces the evolution and legacy of the comic book hero Wonder Woman as a way to reflect on society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. Her following short, What Happened to Her (2016) explores our cultural obsession with images of the dead woman on screen. Guevara-Flanagan has won many accolades for her newest short film, Águilas (2021, Co-Directed with Maite Zubiaurre), about an all-volunteer organization that searches for migrants who go missing as they cross the border between Mexico and the United States. Águilas won Best Short Documentary at SXSW and was subsequently shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Her Sundance-supported feature documentary, Body Parts (2022), continues her exploration on the themes of gender and representation, looking at the making of sex scenes in Hollywood. 

 

 

Best,

Rosa