Performance by Haitian Artist, Gina Athena Ulysse

DUE TO WEATHER CONCERNS, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

 

December 10, 3:30 pm

Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Building

 

The Gina Ulysse presentation is supported by the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, Department of English, the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Women's Studies.  Gina Ulysse is a performance artist, academic and social commentator.  

She writes that "Haiti needs new narratives, more than ever."  Born in Haiti, Gina Ulysse is poet, performance artist, mutli-media artist and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University.  She is the author of Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica (Chicago 2008). She recently completed Why Haiti Needs New Narratives, a collection of post-quake dispatches, essays and meditations written between 2010-2012. She is currently developing "VooDooDoll, What if Haiti Were a Woman," a performance-installation project. 

Event is free and open to the public.

Published on Tue, 11/19/2013 - 12:07