Critical Dreaming: Feminist Performances Across the Indigenous Americas

Friday 08 November 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 hrs.
DAS Graduate School
Overhoeksplein 2
1031 KS Amsterdam

DAS Graduate School, room 2.15

All welcome. 

Lilian (Lily) Mengesha is the Fletcher Foundation Assistant Professor of Dramatic Literature in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, and Affiliate faculty in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University (USA). Her research and teaching live at the intersection of critical Indigenous studies, gender and sexuality studies and performance studies. Her forthcoming book, Critical Dreaming: Feminist Performances Across the Indigenous Americas (NYU Press, 2025), is a transnational study of Indigenous artists that stages the urgency of embodied ways of knowing amidst the colonial decimation of culture, life, and land. Revealing the long and interconnected patterns of feminicide across the Americas,  Mengesha demonstrates how contemporary feminist artists use performance to sustain life amid devastating attempts at extermination. The book argues for dreaming as a tool to seek accountability for harm, revise colonial history, and manifest Indigenous futures.

facultyprofiles.tufts.edu/lily-mengesha

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