THE LIQUID PLAIN AND THE ENDURING DYNAMICS OF RACIAL SLAVERY
Department: African American Studies
Date and Time: February 6, 2015 | 3:00 PM-6:00 PMEvent Location: HIB 135
Event Details
THE LIQUID PLAIN AND THE ENDURING DYNAMICS OF RACIAL SLAVERY
Friday, February 6th, 2015
3:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: HIB 135
Panel Discussion with:
Sally Terrefe (English)
Rachel O’Toole (History)
Karen Kim (Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Jaye Austin Williams (Director, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow)
Members of The Liquid Plain cast
On January 31st, 2015 , The Liquid Plain, written by Naomi Wallace, and directed by Dr. Jaye Austin Williams, will open at UC Irvine, in the Robert Cohen Theatre. The Liquid Plain explores sexuality and the violence of the slave trade in 18th century New England. Finding love and a near drowned man, the mysteries of Adjua and Dembi identities come to light, as do the painful truths about the past and the present, which flow into the next generation. Please join us for a symposium in which we discuss and debate the play’s assumptive logic and the ways in which racialized slavery’s dynamics of subjugated sexuality and gratuitous violence endure in the lives and art of Black people today; how the past is ever present. This event is free and open to the public.
Event Co-sponsored by,
Department of English
Department of Criminology, Law and Society