The Art of Conflict Transformation Event Series

The Art of Conflict Transformation Event Series

Presents

Transforming threads of resistance:
political arpilleras & textiles by women from Chile and
around the world

Art Exhibitions, Lectures, and Workshops
at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

February-March 2012

Dec. 2011 – Mar. 2012: Online exhibition of textiles https://websites.umass.edu/conflictart/

Feb. 27, 2012 @ 4:30PM: Public Lecture, “The Art of Resistance, Memory and Testimony in Political Arpilleras (textiles) Prof. Roberta Bacic; music performed by Chilean former political prisoner Sergio Reyes, (location: Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union)


Feb. 27-Mar 9: Political Textiles Art Exhibition
(location: Student Union Gallery)


Mar. 1 @ 7pm: Poetry Reading,  “Among the Angels of History:  Poetry and the Art of Witnessing”
Prof. Marjorie Agosín (location: Institute for Holocaust, Genocide & Memory Studies)

  • video (coming soon)


Mar. 2 @ noon: A Conversation between Professors Young, Agosín, and Bacic
on art, memory, and state violence (location: Institute for Holocaust, Genocide & Memory Studies)

  • video (coming soon)


Jan. 26-Mar. 16: Interdisciplinary Graduate Students Reading Group
led by ProfessorsJane Anderson and Leah Wing


Feb 17-Mar 9: Class visits & workshops by Prof. Roberta Bacic


Mar. 5 @ 4:30PM: Public Lecture on “Vicarious Resilience:  A New Concept in Work with Those Who Survive Political Violence and Trauma
Prof. Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe (location: #803 Campus Center)


Artistic Responses to the Political Textiles Art Exhibition
(Mar 12-16 Student Union Gallery)

 

Campus Map

These events would not be possible without the generous support of these sponsors at

the University of Massachusetts at Amherst:

Graduate School; the College of Humanities and Fine Arts; the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; the Legal Studies Program; the Department of Political Science; and the Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement.  This program was made possible in part by a grant from the UMASS Arts Council and support from the Center for Heritage and Society; the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies; the Center for Public Policy & Administration; the Center for Research on Families; the Commonwealth Honors College; the Department of History; Global Horizons; the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies; the Law and Society Initiative; the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program; the Public History Program; and the Women of Color Leadership Network-Everywoman’s Center

and

The National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution and the Social Justice Mediation Institute

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