Alien Embodiments, Part II

Alien Embodiments, Part II

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Add to Calendar 2025-02-06 18:00:00 2025-02-06 18:00:00 Alien Embodiments, Part II We are proud to announce that the department's former Student Assistant, and now Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, AE Stevenson, will be taking part in the Alien Embodiment series hosted by the Gray Center on February 6, 6pm. Bio: AE Stevenson is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies. She is currently working on her book manuscript where, through an analysis of Vine, TikTok, Instagram's The Shade Room, and "blackfishing," she argues that Black women and girls have fundamentally changed the visual language of the Internet. She has published in Feminist Media Histories and Catalyst.  About the event from The Gray Center Alien Embodiments, Part II Join us for this second installment of the Alien Embodiments series presented by the Gray Center's new Co-Laboratory for Arts and Science. We usually don’t mind our bodies; they are our vehicles to act in the world – unless they start to act up, stop "working" the way we expect them to; if we become ill; grow old; or, in the case of some humans, pregnant. Sometimes, in these instances, we perceive our body as alien. The alien is a figure prone to deal with the unknown. In today’s event, we will talk about productive and unlikely relationships between the figure of the alien in the Alien movie franchise, pregnant bodies and birth, and slime as a matter of self-care. Join us for this conversation moderated by Desiree Foerster with our guests AE Stevenson (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago), Jennifer M. Rusiecki, MD (University of Chicago Medicine), and Matilda Stubbs (Anthropology, University of Chicago and School of the Art Institute of Chicago). Free and open to the public Food and drinks will be served (6:00-6:30) The Gray Center Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
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We are proud to announce that the department's former Student Assistant, and now Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, AE Stevenson, will be taking part in the Alien Embodiment series hosted by the Gray Center on February 6, 6pm.

Bio:
AE Stevenson is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies. She is currently working on her book manuscript where, through an analysis of Vine, TikTok, Instagram's The Shade Room, and "blackfishing," she argues that Black women and girls have fundamentally changed the visual language of the Internet. She has published in Feminist Media Histories and Catalyst. 

About the event from The Gray Center
Alien Embodiments, Part II

Join us for this second installment of the Alien Embodiments series presented by the Gray Center's new Co-Laboratory for Arts and Science.

We usually don’t mind our bodies; they are our vehicles to act in the world – unless they start to act up, stop "working" the way we expect them to; if we become ill; grow old; or, in the case of some humans, pregnant. Sometimes, in these instances, we perceive our body as alien. The alien is a figure prone to deal with the unknown. In today’s event, we will talk about productive and unlikely relationships between the figure of the alien in the Alien movie franchise, pregnant bodies and birth, and slime as a matter of self-care. Join us for this conversation moderated by Desiree Foerster with our guests AE Stevenson (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago), Jennifer M. Rusiecki, MD (University of Chicago Medicine), and Matilda Stubbs (Anthropology, University of Chicago and School of the Art Institute of Chicago).

Free and open to the public
Food and drinks will be served (6:00-6:30)