Event: 'Gender Across Borders Keynoter Bhanu Kapil, Naropa University. "Walking Through A Jungle Lit By Blue Paper: Notes Towards The Failure Of A Document."'
Bhanu Kapil will give the humanities keynote address for IREWG's graduate conference, Gender Across Borders II: Research Subjects.
5:30pm
Clemens 120
North Campus, University at Buffalo.
Kapil is a poet and experimental fiction writer. Bhanu Kapil teaches undergraduate and graduate classes
in writing at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
She also has a private practice specializing in
Integrative Bodywork.
Her previous publications include -The Vertical
Interrogation of Strangers- (Kelsey Street Press) and
-Autobiography of a Cyborg-(Leroy Press). An elongation/mutation of her work on cyborgs, -Incubation: a space of monsters-, is a work of experimental prose forthcoming from Leon Works.
She is currently completing a prose work on human-animal contacts, as well as one that engages with schizophrenia/domestic violence in the British-Asian community of north-west London. She will be appearing in a forthcoming documentary from Monalisa Production in France, as part of their Humanimal series.
Her talk entitled, "Walking Through A Jungle Lit By Blue Paper: notes towards the failure of a document," include readings from and reflection on her newest book project, [I]Humanimal: a Project for Future Children.
She will give a reading at Squeaky Wheel at 7pm at Saturday, prior to our film screening accompanying the conference, _Obsidian Frames_