*This talk has been moved to Zoom due to travel issues*

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*We will also be broadcasting the Zoom live in the Hall Center Conference Hall for those who wish to view in community.*

This talk considers how colleges stage encounters for repair among students, faculty, staff, and community members through artistic media. Most U.S. higher education institutions were supported through enslavement, settler colonialism, or both, “histories that hurt” that ripple into the present in various ways. Over the past 10-15 years, several colleges and universities have commissioned artworks as one way to repair this harm. This talk explores the potential and limits of art’s capacity to materialize cultural memory, to “make real” how we might see, hear, and move through the past into new futures.

Ariel Nereson is Associate Professor of Dance Studies at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and author of the award-winning book Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past. She is coeditor of Critical University Studies and Performance and currently at work on a monograph about institutions, the arts, and reparations. Her research was recently recognized with the Sally Banes Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research, and she serves as Editor of Theatre Journal.