Vodoun, Vampires, and Body Snatching: Celebrating Black History Month with Laughter and Horror - Discussion panel on “Get Out”

February 26, 5-6 p.m.
Panel on “Get Out” (2017). You can watch the film via Swank Digital Campus at https://uci.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CDL_IRV_INST/74dcdl/alma991035080410004701

Guest Panelists :
Mzilikazi Kone’ (Political Science, College of the Desert)
Bogdan Popa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
Michael Szalay (English Department, UCI)
Desha Dauchan (Film & Media Studies, UCI)
Kevin Olson (Political Science, UCI)

How have filmic representations of white supremacist violence explained white eugenic fantasies? Are there limits to white curiosity about racial power over blackness? This film double feature and the esteemed panelists wrestle with the audiences, insights, and labors to represent Black interiority.

Can we begin to consider COVID-19, the refusal to wear masks, and the siege on the many state capitols and the national one in the context of public health disparities disproportionately ravaging Black and Latinx and Native communities?

Watch the recording of the event at https://uci.zoom.us/rec/play/5RcJ-Uwt1q2F13aYvJjmzzFx4F4iMAdQvdeIIILYG_fG8NKXGnLeXLzMm8-6gaY5TstRBWxhvu7gFM34.cHRpjfwkqf6NWMDr?startTime=1614387473000