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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906602@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260915T094520
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum 2026-2027
DESCRIPTION:Faculty members of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies discuss their projects\, research\, and publications to share their work and interests. The DAAS Faculty Forum will be held monthly on Wednesdays at noon.\n\nFall 2026 Schedule:\n\nSeptember 23: Jonathan A. Gómez\, Assistant Professor of Music\, Department of Musicology\n\n“Theorizing Black Musical Tribute Work”\n\n“In this talk\, I present the beginnings of what I am theorizing as ‘Black musical tribute work\,’ a musical process of paying tribute to a Black musician\, living or deceased\, through musical performance. I engage specifically with the play of similarity and difference in covering the works of the artist to whom tribute is paid\, especially the semiotic capacities of such musical activity. I look to the 2005 album So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross as a case study.”\n\nJonathan A. Gómez is a musicologist studying Black American musics of the 20th and 21st centuries\, particularly popular musics. His work is situated at the intersection of music studies and Black studies\, with interests in music analysis and semiotics via linguistic anthropology. He is also a jazz saxophonist\, and can be heard on pianist Roberto Magris’ album Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery (2017)\, as well as on several tracks of Geo Trio’s We Made an Album! (2019). Gómez holds a Ph.D. in music with a secondary field in African and African American studies from Harvard University\, an M.A. in musicology from Michigan State University\, and a B.M. in studio music and jazz from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. Prior to U-M\, Gómez taught in USC’s Thornton School of Music.\n\nOctober 21: Justine Davis\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Assistant Professor of Political Science \n\nNovember 18: Martin Murray\, Adjunct Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Professor of Urban and Regional Planning\, Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
UID:151690-21911968@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151690
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,African Diaspora,African Language,African Studies
LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701
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