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Making Art Across Borders: A Conversation with Medhin Paolos

For:

Students, Faculty, Staff & Alumni

Date:

Thu, Nov 17 2022, 3:45 - 5:30pm

Location:

Julius Glickman Conference Room RLP 1.302B

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Making Art Across Borders brings to UT the Italian filmmaker, photographer, musician, and activist Medhin Paolos to discuss the perils and possibilities of making art in contexts of border-crossing.

“Border-crossing” has many meanings for Paolos: the violent colonial histories behind her own multiple identities, and paradoxical new possibilities open to her in European contexts.

Paolos’ film Asmarina (2015) will be screened on Wednesday, November 16, 2022. It bridges the present life of the Habesha (Eritrean and Ethiopian) community in Milan with the historical legacies of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa. A conversation with the director will take place on November 17, 2022 (3:45-5:30 pm) at the Julius Glickman Conference Room RLP 1.302B.