Monday, October 3, 5-6:30 PM
Interactive Concert followed by a discussion with the artist
51����’s Helene Zelazo Center of the Performing Arts
2419 E. 51����., Room 250

Tuesday, October 4, 5:30-6:30 PM
Meet and Greet with Ezé Wendtoin
Curtin Hall, Room 187 (Language Oasis)
Join us for a conversation with Ezé!
Feel free to bring any percussion instruments you might own!

Full event details and flyers are available here.

About the artist:
Ezé Wendtoin is a musician and activist, and he has been living in Germany since 2015, where he is currently pursuing a PhD in German Studies. His music and work (e.g., with refugees and learners of German) fights against racism and xenophobia and addresses what it means to speak and learn another language. He speaks Mooré, English, German, and French, and he has received multiple awards for his work.
Ezé is also active in his other home country, Burkina Faso. He is building bridges through two partnering organizations, TAM e.V. (Dresden) and APECA (Ouagadougou), which he founded. Their work includes the school project “Centre Warc-En-Ciel” and the Arts Centre “La Cour Warc-En-Ciel” in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.

The events are presented and supported by:
The 51���� German Program • Institute of World Affairs • The College of Letters & Sciences • Division of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion • African & African Diaspora Studies • Cultures & Communities • Global Studies • MA in Languages, Literature & Translation (MALLT) • Peck School of the Arts • Translation & Interpreting Studies •
This event is partially funded by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI NRC Grant and The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

We hope to see you there!

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Please join us for the Creative Writing Program’s Visiting Writers Series with author Lysley Tenorio on October 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm in Curtin Hall, Room 175. The event will also be livestreamed as a . A craft talk will be held at 3 p.m. on the same day in Curtin Hall, Room 368.

Author Lysley Tenorio will discuss and read from his collection, MONSTRESS, and his novel, THE SON OF GOOD FORTUNE, followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Lysley Tenorio is the author of the novel “The Son of Good Fortune”, winner of the New American Voices Award, and the story collection “Monstress”, named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Stegner fellowship, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, and The New York Times, and has been adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Ma-Yi Theater in New York City. He was a 2021 finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and is a 2021-22 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. He is a professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.

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March 3, 2021, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Free

Edafe Okporo was born in Warri, Nigeria. A native of Egbo Uhurie, Ughelli South Local government in Delta State Nigeria. He migrated to the United States in 2016 as an asylum seeker and now a refugee of the United States, residing in New York. Edafe is a global gay rights activist and the executive director of the RDJ Refugee Shelter in Harlem. The shelter helps refugees transition to life in America.

He is author of the forthcoming book Asylum, a memoir & manifesto by Simon and Schuster and founder of The Pont. He is passionate about extending a hand to communities in need and teaching leaders in communities and organizations on how to motivate their members to act. His work includes trying to build an inclusive society, both in and out of the workplace, that will spark JOY. The inclusion of LGBTQ people, refugees, and marginalized people is a path to building a joyful society.

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Join us for a conversation with Ronak K. Kapadia (UIC) as he explores how the Black and brown Midwest has become the epicenter of a twenty-first century insurgent rebellion against the dominant militarized policing order in the United States. From abolition to healing justice and transformative justice and mutual aid, a new generation of visionary artists and activists from queer and trans Black Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC) communities are offering a crucial wellspring for ideas about survival, healing, and justice in the waning years of twenty-first century US empire. These strategies and tactics circulate widely within contemporary social movements that are working to turn the tide against prisons, policing, and American warfare. At a time when the proliferating calamities of global fascism, neoliberal austerity, carceral governance, climate chaos, and endless warfare appear to be ascendant across the planet, how do minoritarian cultural workers living and laboring in the heart of empire make sense of this dying world order while dreaming up new worlds through their art-making and organizing? The ecology of minoritarian art and activism emerging from today’s overlapping protest movements offer a powerful roadmap for understanding the dystopian here and now of US imperial decline and imagining rebellious futures that can move us from despair and isolation to coalition and transformation.

Ronak K. Kapadia is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies, and affiliated faculty in Art History, Global Asian Studies, and Museum & Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. An interdisciplinary cultural theorist of race, security, sensation, and empire in the late 20th and early 21st century United States, Kapadia is author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke UP 2019), with other work in Journal of Popular Music Studies, Feminist Formations, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Asian American Literary Review, and edited volumes including Shifting Borders: America and the Middle East/North Africa (AUB Press 2014), Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader (Duke UP 2016), and With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and US Empire (U Minnesota Press 2018).

This talk is co-sponsored by the Cultures and Communities Program and the Center for 21st Century Studies.

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