Voro’pi: Art and Education In between Worlds

Gilman 479 With Naine Terena, Gustavo Caboco, and Jamille Pinheiro Dias. Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Portuguese Program, and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. Voro'pi is an educational initiative that approaches the arts as a way to galvanize counter-histories, fight structural inequality, and learn about protagonists from different contexts. […]

The Concept of Yiddish in the Art of Mel Bochner

Maryland 110 Lecture by Sunny Yudkoff. This lecture will explore the evolving manifestations of Yiddish in the work of the contemporary artist Mel Bochner. One of the founding figures of American conceptual art, Bochner has continuously re-examined the unstable nature of language. The following presentation investigates how Bochner’s postvernacular invocation of Yiddish calls into crisis […]