EXTINCTION | IMAGINATION

The 2020-21 Society of Fellows annual thematic, Extinction | Imagination, brought together faculty working from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives to support scholarship, creative productions and community engagement projects that advanced conversations about the threats of phenomena like genocide; ecological devastation; global pandemics; global capitalism and wealth inequality and/or the radical possibilities of rising social movements; community organizing; sites of dissent and new democratic imaginaries. Learn more

GRADUATE FELLOW ROUNDTABLES

(De)constructing Existence, (Re)imagining Identities, Cultures and Histories 
Kashif Dennis • Omar Dieng • Tamara McCarty 

Modes of Extinction: Imagining Pathways of Resistance 
Andrew Bishop • Alex Nikolaidis • Fernando Sánchez López 

RECEPTION

 OPENING REMARKS |Wendy S. Hesford (GAHDT Faculty Director) 

FACULTY/STUDENT DANCE PERFORMANCE | "Community Sharing of Cross-Cultural Explorations in Dance"
Suzan Bradford-Kounta (Lecturer) • Nyama McCarthy Brown (Field School Grant Recipient) • Kevin Seals (Accompanist) • (Dancers) Javaeh Hannah, Ishmael Konney, Ami Kounta, Sophie Kussman, Liv Sexton, Quianna Simpson, Clancee Synco 

UNDERGRADUATE SHOWCASE | Introduction by Margaret Flinn (Faculty Fellow + Mentor)
Corbin Lanker (Undergraduate Fellow) • Arvcúken Noquisi (Undergraduate Fellow) 

STUDENT DANCE PERFORMANCE | "Give Up to Keep Going"
Kara Komarnitsky (Undergraduate Fellow) 

FACULTY RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT 
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth (Faculty Fellow) 
Carmen Winant (Faculty Fellow) 

GRADUATE SHOWCASE (HOPKINS GALLERY) | Introduction by Kris Paulsen (Faculty Fellow + Mentor)