This conference explores how dance speculates—how it reflects, resists, and reimagines—the forces that shape our contemporary world, including migration, memory, media, markets, and the social choreography of bodies across borders, platforms, and stages. Set in Los Angeles, a region with indigenous populations, diverse diasporic communities, histories of resistance, and global entertainment industries, it offers fertile ground for rethinking dance's entanglement with questions of value, visibili
The conference examines how bodies move through—with and against—systems of control, extraction, discipline, and erasure in a post-truth moment shaped by spectacle, migration, media, labor, and ecological extremes. It asks what possibilities emerge when movement is imagined as an affirmative form of world-making. The site is the original Tongva village of Puvungna, meaning 'gathering place,' featured in Tongva/Gabrieleno/Acjachemen creation stories and emergence narratives. Conference co-chairs
Topics & Focus Areas
migrationmemorymediamarketssocial choreographybodies across bordersplatformsstagesvaluevisibilitysurvivalsystems of controlextractiondisciplineerasuremovement as world-making
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Temporary Faculty (CHSSA) - Arts Academic Year 2025-2026
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Associate Professor on tenure terms or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and the School of Computing and Data Science
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of History
Adjunct Faculty, Continuing Education (Non-credit), Visual & Performing Arts (Theater Arts
