[Asianam] A DISCO Call for Conversation: In/visible Identities, 1/17, 11-1 pm (pizza provided)

[Wu, Judy]

A DISCO Call for Conversation

In/visible Identities

17 January 2014, Friday
 11 a.m.-1 p.m. (Pizza will be served)
Multicultural Center Great Room, Ohio Union

During spring semester, DISCO (The Diversity and Identity Studies Collective at OSU) is focusing on the theme of “In/visible Identities.” To kick-off our semester-long exploration, we invite you to participate in a World Café-style conversation.

We plan to focus on the following questions:


  1.  How does identity matter in social relations, politics, urban planning, scientific or academic study?
  2.  What makes identity visible or invisible?  How does power and difference work through visibility and invisibility?
  3.   Why choose invisibility or visibility?
The theme is inspired by an installation, “Invisible Identity: Mujeres Dominicanas en California,” created by Prof. Sonia BasSheva Manjon, Director of the OSU Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise.  Manjon's work explores how photography, video, ethnography and oral history both capture expressions of identity and allow for particular identities to be expressed. Manjon suggests that identities are comforting, until they aren't; identities are situational, yet not always; and while we may think we already know what a particular identity category means, we often don't. Manjon's installation focuses on the less well-known Latina/o population of Dominican immigrants in the U.S., however, this work asks us all to consider: “The question of identity within physical space…and the perception of living silently between two worlds…and belonging to neither.”

These themes of silence, invisibility, and identity inspired DISCO collaborators to sponsor both a conversation and to link a series of events during spring semester.  Please join us on Jan. 17, 11-1, at the Multicultural Center to share your thoughts about “in/visible identity.”  For more information, please contact:  Prof. J. Wu (wu.287 at osu.edu<mailto:wu.287 at osu.edu>) or see http://disco.osu.edu/invisible-identities-series

Organizing Committee Members:
Christine Ballengee-Morris, American Indian Studies
Krista Benson, DISCO Grad Caucus
Theresa Delgadillo, Comparative Ethnic and American Studies and Latino/a Studies
Davida Haywood, The Multicultural Center
Linda Mizejewski, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Mitsu Narui, The Multicultural Center
Dorothy Noyes, Folklore Center
Lauren Strand, Disability Studies
Derrick Tillman-Kelly, Center for Inclusion, Diversity, and Academic Success (IDEAS)
Sonia BasSheva Manjon, The Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Asian American Studies and DISCO
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