Jewel Pereyra (Harvard University)

"Afro-Filipina Aesthetics: Transnational Sound Cultures and Dance Performances"

Thursday, October 26, 5:00pm Barker 133

Examining the understudied poetic, theatrical and musical performances that emerged from transnational contacts between Filipina and Black women performers, this presentation adds to scholarship in Philippine and African American performance histories by centering Black and Filipina women’s relational experiences and collective artistry through an invocation of an "Afro-Filipina Chorus."

Bio: Jewel Pereyra is a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s American Studies program, where she holds a secondary in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. As a 2023-24 Radcliffe Institute Graduate Fellow, she will complete her dissertation, “Afro-Filipina Aesthetics: Transnational Sound Cultures and Dance Performances,” which examines the understudied poetic, theatrical, and musical performances that emerged from transnational contacts between Filipina and Black women performers across the twentieth century.

About this Series:  The 2023-2024 New Directions in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality seminar series is a forum for discussing new interdisciplinary scholarship in the field of women, gender, and sexuality studies. This year's series focuses on Art & Politics in the Asian Diaspora. Featured talks speak to multiple academic disciplines, methods, and traditions while forging an engaged and vibrant intellectual community.

The series is a partnership between the Mahindra Humanities Center, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard. It is co-convened by Jung Ja Choi, (Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality), and Linda Schlossberg, (Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies).

UPCOMING LECUTRES IN THIS SERIES

Spring 2024 Seminars:

Speaker 3: Sandra Lim (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Date: Thursday, February 29, at 6 pm, Barker 133
Title: “A Poetry Reading with Sandra Lim”

Speaker 4: Rani Neutill (Tufts University and Emerson College)
Date: Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm, Barker 133
Title: “Do You Love Me? A Transnational Memoir”