The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, and the Center for the Critical Study of the Health of Latinx Communities are pleased to welcome Denise Ferreria da Silva to UC Berkeley for a talk titled, "After It's All Said: Reading Art as Confrontation" on Thursday, November 7, 2024. This talk will take place in the Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, at 5:00 PM. (View event page here)
Throwing blacklight onto works and practices of the contemporary art stage, Denise Ferreira da Silva comments on radical interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean that reflect on past and current political events through the lens of refusal.
This event is part of a new initiative, “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times,” that develops strategies to counteract new forms of authoritarianism in key areas throughout the United States. The project is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Denise Ferreira da Silva currently holds the Samuel Rudin Chair Professor in Humanities in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at New York University. As an academic, her publications include Toward a Global Idea of Race (Minnesota 2007), Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins, 2013), Homo Modernus (Cobogó, 2022), Unpayable Debt (Sternberg 2022), and A Divida Impagavel (Zahar, 2024). Her numerous articles have been published in venues such as Social Text, TCS-Theory, Culture and Society, The Black Scholar, Boundary 2, South Atlantic Quarterly, American Quarterly, Cultural Dynamics, Social Identities, Theory & Event, Griffith Law Review, among others. She has held visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, La Trobe University, among others. In 2023, she held the International Chair in Contemporary Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the Universté de Paris 8. Her artwork includes the films Serpent Rain (2016), 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum (2020), Ancestral Clouds/Ancestral Claims with (2022) (Arjuna Neuman), and the performance and visual art practices Poethical Readings, Sensing Salon, and Reading with Echo (with Valentina Desideri). As a visual and performance artist, she has exhibited, performed, lectured, and/or contributed to publications at renowned international art spaces, including the Centre Pompidou, Whitechapel Gallery, MOMA, Guggenheim, Barbican Center, Serpentine Gallery, MASP, Galway Arts Centre, Glasgow Center for Contemporary Arts, Extracity Kunsthalle Antwerp, MACBA, Munch Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, and the São Paulo, Berlin and Venice Biennials.
Co- Sponsor(s): Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of Film and Media, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Chicanx Latinx Studies Program, The Latinx Research Center Initiative on Decolonial Knowledges and the Pluriversal, Center for Race and Gender
This event is made possible by the generosity of theAndrew W. Mellon Foundation.
For more information or for accessibility related inquiries please contact: Iliana Morton, ilianamorton@berkeley.edu.
Image Credit: Denise Ferreira da Silva