Otherworldly Videos: Alien Bodies Conference

Below are videos of the conversations and lectures from the Alien Bodies Conference that took place in February: Keynote with Alondra Nelson

Moving On the Wires: Alien Bodies’ Logo Contest

Via Alien Bodies: The 2013 Emory Alien Bodies: Race, Space, Sex and the African Diaspora Conference is pleased to announce a Logo Contest! The conference explores such questions as: how do we begin to understand the ways in which race, space, and sex configure “the alien” within spaces allegedly “beyond” markers of difference? In doing […]

Modern Griots: Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, A Visual Mythologist

From her website: “I teach but mostly I make journeys. Sometimes I am a photographer; sometimes a painter, writer, historian, documentarian, bohemian artist. But most times, I am all of the above. I am inspired by the magic that occurs when one goes looking for ancestors–those unmapped spaces that are realized on front porches, at […]