Announcement

We’re thrilled to launch the culminating semester of the Vera List Center’s two-year investigation into the political, social, and metaphorical implications of Correction*. Here is a preview of upcoming programs, performances, publications, fellowship projects, and screenings. Stay tuned for other programs later this spring!

SEMINAR
Correction* Seminar 10: Reducing Harm (As Prompt, As Practice)
Monday, February 12, 2024, 3 pm EST
Online
The Correction* Seminar Series continues with a conversation unpacking harm reduction as an expansive and diverse set of practices and principles that challenge structures of power and can prompt collective liberation through the care for our own and each other’s bodies. The conversation features Imani Mason Jordan, interdisciplinary writer, artist, editor and curator, and is moderated by co-convener Tamara Oyola-Santiago, Director of Wellness and Health Promotion at Student Health Services at The New School. Additional speakers to be announced along with a second part to the event hosted on campus by Student Health Services later this spring. Register here.

BOOK LAUNCH
Off Script
Saturday, March 2, 2024, 2–6 pm PST
xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees), Liu Institute for Global Issues
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Livestreamed
How do artistic modes of call and response, transmission and reception, speaking and listening, open spaces for reciprocity and multiplicity? On the occasion of Maria Hupfield‘s Breaking Protocol and Aural Poetics, edited by Michael Nardone, this performance event introduces the two books as prompts for discussions of sound, art, and cultural memory across an ecology of practices. Organized in collaboration with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, participants include Peter Morin, Patrick Nickleson, Skeena Reece, Dylan Robinson, and Charlene Vickers. Email belkin.rsvp@ubc.ca to register.

SEMINAR
Correction* Seminar 11: Many Returns
Monday, March 4, 2024, 6–7:30 pm EST
Online
Considering return as a reparative and corrective mode of relation to the land, either disrupted or severed under continued colonial and settler control, this program takes up questions around restitution and rematriation from Indigenous perspectives, sharing a range of strategies from the poetic to the insurgent. Palestinian artist Vivien Sansour shares the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library project, and Indigenous Yaqui and Jewish multidisciplinary artist Tahila C. Mintz speaks to her artistic practice as a Water Protector and Land Guardian. Additional speakers to be announced. Register here.

BOOK TALK
Studies into Darkness: A Dialogue on Freedom of Speech
Saturday, March 9, 2024, 4–6 pm EST
Francis Kite Club
40 Loisaida Ave, New York

This conversation on Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech brings the book’s design into conversation with its timely content on censorship, speech, and making social justice visible. Artist and book co-designer Nontsikelelo Mutiti engages with co-editors Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich and book contributor Gabriela López Dena. Together, they touch on the rigidity and slippages inherent in speech, translation, and comprehension, considering the blackness of the printed word and the medium of manifestos as forms of expression and proposals for political pathways forward.

WORKSHOP & SCREENING
Film Workshop with Fox Maxy
May 1–19, 2024
Online and in-person
Fox Maxy’s films push the genre of horror and documentary, creating deeply personal and biographical reflections on survival, joy, and pleasure. Wrapping up her 2022–2024 Borderlands Fellowship project, which centers on portals and mental health, Maxy hosts a filmmaking workshop inspired by storytelling and mental wellness. Bringing this workshop to New York City, where her feature film will be set, Maxy invites participants to learn and create a short film with her over the course of several weeks.