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Wednesday, March 5
 

11:20am MST

Panel: On the Circulation and Transmission of Africa/Diasporic Aesthetic Practices
Wednesday March 5, 2025 11:20am - 12:35pm MST
Fullerton Hall - Art Institute of Chicago
Join us for a panel with Huey Copeland, Krista Thompson, Ebony Patterson, and Kodwo Eshun. 
Moderators
DR
Speakers
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Huey Copeland

Dr. Huey Copeland, Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Modern Art and Black Study at the University of Pittsburgh, is widely recognized as a leader in art history, specializing in visual cultures and critical theories of the African diaspora, Europe, and the United States. He... Read More →
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Krista Thompson

Krista Thompson is the Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.  She is the author of An Eye for the Tropics (2006) and Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (2015), recipient of the Charles Rufus... Read More →
avatar for Ebony Patterson

Ebony Patterson

Artist
Ebony G. Patterson's expansive practice addresses visibility and invisibility, through explorations of class, race, gender, youth culture, pageantry and acts of violence in the context of "postcolonial" spaces. With the strong sensibility of a painter, Patterson works across multiple... Read More →
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Wednesday March 5, 2025 11:20am - 12:35pm MST
Fullerton Hall - Art Institute of Chicago 111 S Michigan Ave
  Discussions, Panel

2:30pm MST

Panel: Panafrica's Future Conversations
Wednesday March 5, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm MST
Fullerton Hall - Art Institute of Chicago
Join us for a panel with Hélio Menezes, Marilyn Nance, and Serubiri Moses. 
Moderators
MW
Speakers
avatar for Hélio Menezes

Hélio Menezes

Hélio Menezes is the Artistic Director of Museu Afro Brasil, in São Paulo. He acted as curator for Contemporary Art and Literature at Centro Cultural São Paulo between 2019 and 2021. Some of his recent works include the curation of the 35th São Paulo Art Biennial, Choreographies... Read More →
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Marilyn Nance

Photographer
Marilyn Nance’s artistry takes on many forms including photographs, prints, fiber arts, installation, and social practice. A graduate of New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, Nance is a digital pioneer. An artifact of the ancient web, her website soulsista.com... Read More →
avatar for Serubiri Moses

Serubiri Moses

Serubiri Moses is a Ugandan curator and author based in New York City. His writing is primarily concerned with aporia, violence, as well as exhibition histories. His exhibitions are rooted in methods of collective teaching, and listening as an epistemology. He serves as part-time... Read More →

Wednesday March 5, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm MST
Fullerton Hall - Art Institute of Chicago 111 S Michigan Ave
  Discussions, Panel
 
Friday, March 7
 

2:00pm MST

From Panther to Panther: Legacies of Resistance
Friday March 7, 2025 2:00pm - 5:00pm MST
PO Box Collective

On May 28, 2022, a historic conference took place outside Mumbai, India. The meeting brought
together leaders of the Black Panther Party and the Dalit Panthers, on the 50th anniversary of
the revolutionary group’s founding, which aimed to abolish caste-based discrimination in India.
This event symbolically and concretely solidified a connection uniting the anti-caste and anti-
racism movements, advocating for liberation that traverses borders.


Chicago-based SpaceShift Collective invites you to a multidisciplinary program, which explores
the profound influence of the Black Panther Party on the Dalit Panthers through story, sound,
performance, artmaking, and conversation. Featuring contemporary artists, activists, and
scholars who will reflect, through their own practices, on the global solidarity of oppressed
communities, “From Panther to Panther” underscores the cultural and ideological cross-
pollination between the two movements.


Together, we will expand our understanding of how the Black Panther Party’s advocacy for
Black empowerment, self-defense, and social justice resonated with the Dalit Panthers in their
own struggle for equality and dignity. We will pay tribute to these movements, whose legacies
continue to inspire the fight for transnational justice today.

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Speakers
SC
SS
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Shrujana Shridhar

Artist & Illustrator
MS
DL

Damon Locks

Visual Artist, Musician, Educator
MD
Friday March 7, 2025 2:00pm - 5:00pm MST
PO Box Collective
  Discussions, Panel
 
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