March 29, 2026 | Events

Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series 2026, Part 2

This IA Collaboratory is organized by professors Jacqueline Jean Barrios and Harris Kornstein (Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona), and each virtual event features two guest speakers in a salon-style conversation with attendees. This month’s event features speakers Ana María Álvarez, Associate Professor, Theater & Dance, UC San Diego, and Founding Artistic Director, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, and SA Smythe, Associate Professor, Black Studies & the Archive, and Director of the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis, University of Toronto.

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March 28, 2026 | Events

Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series 2026, Part 1

This IA Collaboratory is organized by professors Jacqueline Jean Barrios and Harris Kornstein (Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona), and each virtual event features two guest speakers in a salon-style conversation with attendees. This month’s event features speakers Romi Ron Morrison, an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator at UCLA Design Media Arts, and Sarah Biscarra Dilley, a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator, member of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe and Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project.

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