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Comparing Domains of Improvisation: Fred Moten

April 23, 2021
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Event Description:

Dr. Fred Moten joins Comparing Domains of Improvisation for a presentation and discussion on his work on Black studies, performance studies, poetics, and critical theory.

Fred Moten is a professor in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. He holds an A.B. from Harvard and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Moten teaches courses and conducts research in Black studies, performance studies, poetics, and critical theory. He is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003); Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works, 2009); B. Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010); The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions, 2014), The Little Edges (Wesleyan University Press, 2015), The Service Porch (Letter Machine Editions, 2016), a three-volume collection of essays whose general title is consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2017, 2018) and All that Beauty (Letter Machine Editions, 2019). Moten has also co-authored, with Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2013), A Poetics of the Undercommons (Sputnik and Fizzle, 2016), and All Incomplete (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2021) and, with Wu Tsang, Who touched me? (If I Can’t Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution, 2016). Moten has served on the editorial boards of Callaloo, Discourse, American Quarterly, and Social Text; as a member of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine; on the board of directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York; and on the advisory board of Issues in Critical Investigation, Vanderbilt University.

Event Speaker:

  • Fred Moten, Professor of Performance Studies, NYU

Event Information: 

Free and open to the public; RSVP required via Eventbrite. Registered attendees will receive an event link shortly before the seminar begins.

Please contact the group organizer, Jessie Cox ([email protected]), with any questions. This event is sponsored by Columbia University's Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program.