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Part of The Entanglement Project, Strange Life is convened by Priscilla Wald (English). Members of the Strange Life working group include: Taylor Black (English), JP Gritton (English), Shambhavi Kaul (Art, Art History and Visual Studies), Douglas Jones (English), Sharon Kunde (ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, FHI), Mesha Maren (English), Anna Storti (Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies), and Yun Emily Wang (Music).
In Strange Life we gather under the premise that life is strange, which is a seemingly banal observation. But for us, it also functions as an epistemological opening to reconcile with all that might fall under the umbrella of "strange": from religious cults and the puzzling but persistent pervasiveness of violence, to the queer, the uncanny, and even perhaps the unnatural.
Past Events
Spring 2024
Mar 5 | Sumita Chakraborty & Destiny Hemphill, "North Carolina Ecofeminism: A Poetry Reading"
Feb 29 | Howard Fishman, "To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse"
Feb 26 | Genevieve Yue, "The Unburied: Material Histories of Film in the Owens Valley"
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Fall 2023
Dec 4 | The Fourcast Lab, Virtual Playtest: Encounter
Nov 8 | Robert Kocik, "Sowa Rigpa Treating Poetry: The Poetics of Traditional Tibetan Medicine"
Oct 19 | Joyelle McSweeney & Edgar Garcia, "Denaturing the Colonial Sensorium: A Poetry Reading"
Sep 28 | Julietta Singh, "Against Home in the Settler Colony"