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March 2, 2023 – March 13, 2023
In collaboration with University of the Witwatersrand faculty member Mhlambi Innocentia Jabulisile, the Racial Justice Institute is developing an international symposium about “Women’s Liberation and Protest through Transnational Musical Storytelling,” which will take place in Spring 2023.
The weeklong academic workshop and symposium at the University of the Witwatersrand will bring together a cohort of Georgetown and South African scholars and artists to investigate how music, language, and community activism coalesce in the production of transnational liberatory musical works based upon women’s experiences. The proposed 2023 workshop will bring artists and scholars together to discuss methodologies for defining processes of transnational political theater from a women’s liberatory perspective. Musical works, classical and vernacular, transcend language boundaries, allowing for international flows of political resistance.
