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SUMMARY: “Joyful Defiance in Performance” with Isabel Machado & Rosanne Sia
DESCRIPTION: The Social Justice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents Jo
 yful Defiance in Performance Dr. Isabel Machado & Dr. Rosanne Sia WHEN & WH
 ERE Wednesday November 1st\, 12-1pm Buchanan Tower 225 / Zoom Please RSVP b
 elow in advance Please wear a mask if you are attending this event. A sandw
 ich lunch will be served at 1pm. ABSTRACT […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p style="text-align: center\;">The Social Ju
 stice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents</p><h1 style="text-align: ce
 nter\;"><span style="color: #993300\;">Joyful Defiance in Performance</span
 ></h1><h2 style="text-align: center\;"><span style="color: #800000\;"><stro
 ng>Dr. Isabel Machado</strong></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center\;">
 <span style="color: #800000\;">&</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center\;
 "><span style="color: #800000\;"><strong>Dr. Rosanne Sia</strong></span></h
 2><hr /><p style="text-align: center\;"><strong>WHEN & WHERE<br /></strong>
 Wednesday November 1st\, 12-1pm<strong><br /></strong>Buchanan Tower 225 / 
 Zoom</p><p style="text-align: center\;">Please RSVP below in advance</p><p 
 style="text-align: center\;">Please wear a mask if you are attending this e
 vent.</p><p style="text-align: center\;">A sandwich lunch will be served at
  1pm.</p><p style="text-align: center\;">[accordions collapsible=true activ
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 nter\;">[accordions collapsible=true active=false][accordion title="RSVP (O
 nline)"][gravityform id="46" title="true" description="true"][/accordion][/
 accordions]</p><hr /><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;"><strong>ABSTRACT</
 strong></span></p><p>This talk opens up a conversation about histories of j
 oy\, performance\, and race. Joy has often been imposed upon the racialized
  body in performance\, serving as a mode of consolidating violence and excl
 usion. And yet joyful performances have also been vital for the survival of
  oppressed people\, opening towards other possibilities and futures. We wil
 l explore this tension in case studies of performances through photographs 
 of a 1977 public protest against the Ku Klux Klan in Mobile\, Alabama and o
 ral histories by Asian diasporic and Latinx entertainers on postwar exotici
 sm in American nightlife. How have joyful performances been underpinned by 
 pain\, suffering\, and struggle? How do we walk a thin line between underst
 anding joy as oppression and joy as defiance? What happens when we as schol
 ars are touched by joy in our historical inquiry?</p><hr /><p><span style="
 font-weight: 400\;"><strong>ABOUT Dr. Isabel Machado</strong></span></p><p>
 <img class="wp-image-27821 alignleft" src="https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-
 content/uploads/sites/40/2023/07/DSC_4528-221x300.jpeg" alt="" width="178" 
 height="242" />Dr. Isabel Machado is a Lecturer at the Institute for Gender
 \, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ). A cultural historian whose w
 ork often crosses national and disciplinary boundaries\, she specializes in
  the fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Festive Studies. Her first 
 book\, <em>Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mo
 bile</em> (University Press of Mississippi\, 2023)\, uses Mardi Gras as a v
 ehicle to understand social and cultural changes in Mobile\, Alabama (USA) 
 in the second half of the 20th century. By exposing the systems of oppressi
 on reflected in and reinforced by the celebration\, while also acknowledgin
 g the festivity’s potential in reaffirming resistance and joy for historica
 lly marginalized groups of people\, it dialogues with scholarship that focu
 ses on joyful defiance\, or Critical Joy Studies.</p><p>For the ongoing ora
 l history project\, “Queens of the South(s)”\, she is interviewing performe
 rs who defy gender normativity in different parts of the globe while suppor
 ting efforts to create accessible queer community archives in collaboration
  with local artists\, activists\, and archivists.</p><p>Her work has been p
 ublished in <em>Study the South\, Oral History\, O Olho da História\, </em>
 and<em> Journal of Festive Studies</em> (where she currently serves as co-e
 ditor-in-chief). She is also a host for the New Books in Gender Studies pod
 cast.</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;"><strong>ABOUT Dr. Rosa
 nne Sia</strong></span></p><p><img class=" wp-image-27019 alignleft" src="h
 ttps://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2022/11/Rosanne-Sia
 -Headshot-265x300.jpg" alt="" width="183" height="207" /></p><p>Dr. Rosanne
  Sia works across Cold War cultural history\, performance studies\, critica
 l race studies\, and queer studies. Her book manuscript\, <i>Mujer Peregrin
 a: Performing Racial Fantasies in the early Cold War</i>\, focuses on women
  of Asian and Latinx descent who danced and sang on nightclub circuits in t
 he early Cold War. Drawing on forty-five oral histories\, she argues that p
 erformers crossed boundaries of genre\, nation\, language\, race\, and sexu
 ality that exceeded Cold War narratives of racial integration. Community en
 gaged scholarship through oral history methodology and practice is at the h
 eart of her research projects.</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-weight: 400\
 ;"><strong>Accessibility</strong></span></p><ul><li>This will be a virtue a
 nd in-person event in Buchanan Tower. A wheelchair accessible and single-us
 er\, gender-neutral washroom is located across from the room. Otherwise\, g
 endered washrooms are located on alternate floors in the stairwell between 
 floors.</li><li>The room has a capacity of approximately 40 people and will
  have open windows.</li><li>Please wear a mask if you intend to attend this
  event. There will be masks available in the room.</li></ul><p>Please inclu
 de any additional access requests or questions in the RSVP form above.</p>
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