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CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now

Irene Chan (Visual Arts)

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

April 30, 2018, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

Description

Spring 2018 Works-in-Progress Talks

Railroad Track of Violence: Stories about the Chinese in Ninenteenth-Century America
Irene Chan, Associate Professor, Visual Arts, and 2018 Dresher Center Residential Faculty Fellow

Using storytelling and new media, Irene Chan's interdisciplinary digital history and art project, Railroad Track of Violence, examines and documents the forgotten history of violence against Chinese immigrants. Expanding the project's multimedia collection of miniature art books, Professor Chan is adding personal narratives and songs that depict horrific acts against the Chinese and the ways that these new Americans courageously fought back. She will discuss her research in locating first-person accounts from the Chinese and other townspeople. These life histories will eventually be voice-recorded and added to the project's website.
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