"Las Voces de los Apalaches" will be an evening to help celebrate the "Year of Mexico!"  First will be a dramatic presentation in Worsham Theater, beginning at 7 p.m.  To follow the dramatic presentation is the band Apalatin.

Dr. Parson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at SMU. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist,  interested broadly in the relationships of gender, violence, the state, and health, in global perspective. Her interests also include migration, social determinants of health, globalization, and narrative analysis.

La Dr. Parson es profesora de Antropología en SMU. Sus estudios y áreas de interés incluye una perspectiva global en relación a la violecia, el estado y la salud de sociedades. También tiene un interés en lo que abarca la migración y determinantes sociales de globalización y salud.

Ongoing exhibit until May.

Exhibición abierta al público hasta mayo.

Dr. Shlossberg’s work documents contemporary danzas, such as the pastorelas, and related masking customs in central Michoacan. His work also examines how knowledge about masks and masking is often falsified in popular and scholarly work through the repetition of colorful myths that envelop the craft and the disavowal of items produced for the tourist and curio markets as inauthentic and low-grade. Debates over the authenticity of tourist and curio arts shed light on how popular and elite, indigenous, mestizo, and Anglo actors in central Michoacan construct and contest relations of class, race, and inequality as they negotiate the meanings of “tradition,” “ethnic authenticity,” “globalization,” and “cultural change.”

El trabajo del Dr. Scholossberg se enfoca en documentar danzas, pastorales y mascaradas el territorio de Michoacán. Su trabajo busca traer cociencia al público sobre cómo las máscaras y bailes han sido glorificados y falsificados a través de mitos coloríficos que buscan atraer atención turística. Como consecuencia, varias máscaras a la venta suelen ser falsas y no piezas de arte. Varios debates han surgido sobre las diferentes perspectivas tomadas entre las imitiaciones y el verdadero arte curio. Schlossberg busca enseñar como la élite social, los indígenas, mestizos y los Anglo actores de Michoacán construyen, mantienen y negocian relaciones de clase social, raza e inequalidad a través de la tradición, auntenticidad étnica, globalización y cambios culturales en el arte.

African American & Africana Studies Social Science Speaker Series. 

Tracy Fisher is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Her teaching, research, and activist-scholar commitments are situated at the intersections of Women’s, Gender and Feminist studies, critical Race and Ethnic studies, African Diaspora studies, and critical Anthropology. She has published several articles in edited volumes and in journals such as, Small Axe, Social Justice, and Critical Sociology. She has also received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Professor Fisher is the co-editor of Gendered Citizenships, Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2009). Her book, What’s Left of Blackness: Feminisms, Transracial Solidarities, and the Politics of Belonging in Britain, was published in the Comparative Feminist Studies Series by Palgrave Macmillan Publishers in 2012. 

Fisher explores 1970s Britain by specifically drawing attention to the ways in which black women in Britain understood their experiences, identities, and social activism in relation to other black women throughout the African diaspora and to other women of color within and outside of Britain. By extension, black women created new solidarities and engaged in an active political struggle—one grounded in the material reality of entrenched forms of discrimination and exclusion.

Co-sponsored by AAAS and Anthropology