MOBILITY AND STASIS in FRASS: A Provocation in Four Parts

Description

A conversation on national borders and their impact on the environment, people and imaginations between Gaye Chan, artist of FRASS, an exhibition currently on view at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and three scholars.

Sunday, December 18, 2011 from 3 to 4 pm at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Attendees should arrive no later than 2:45pm to view the exhibition prior to the event.
Free admission.

The three scholars are:
Maxine Burkett / Director of Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy. Associate Professor of UHM Law School
Robert Perkinson / Author of Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2008). Associate Professor of UHM Department of American Studies.
Nandita Sharma / Author of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006). Associate Professor of UHM Department of Sociology.

Honolulu Academy of Arts
900 South Beretania St. Honolulu, HI 96814
(808) 532-8700

MOBILITY AND STASIS is held in concert with Immigrant Movement International, Creative Time, and the Queens Museum of Art, in honor of International Migrants Day.