Demanding Dignity: A Discourse on Bodies - Detention Nation.
Wednesday, October 17th at 7:00 PM
TTU English Building, room 001.
Demanding Dignity: A Discourse on Bodies, this roundtable discussion focuses and frames demands for dignity and justice while engaging issues and reforms related to Body Politics. Presented by the Literature, Social Justice, Environment (LSJE) Initiative in the Department of English.
-Dr. Delilah Montoya, Professor of Art, University of Houston, organizer of "Detention Nation"
-Dr. Constance Cortez, Director, School of Art, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
-Sister Rosemary Welsh, Executive Director, Casa de Misericordia (House of Mercy), Laredo, Texas
-Apryl Lewis, Graduate Student, Department of English, Black Graduate Student Association Representative
Landmark Arts exhibitions and speaker programs in the Texas Tech University School of Art are made possible in part with a generous grant from the Helen Jones Foundation of Lubbock. Additional support comes from Cultural Activities Fees administered by the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts.
