“Rebirth of the Flesh”: David Bowie & Prince’s (Dis)identifications—On Race, Gender, & Sexuality (conference session)

Name: “Rebirth of the Flesh”: David Bowie & Prince’s (Dis)identifications—On Race, Gender, & Sexuality (conference session)
Start: 2017-01-28T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2017-01-28T17:00:00-05:00
Location: “Rebirth of the Flesh”: David Bowie & Prince’s (Dis)identifications—On Race, Gender, & Sexuality (conference session)

1.28.17 | 3pm–5pm

Side-by-side closeups of David Bowie and Prince

January 28, 2017 | 3pm–5pm |

Location:

Yale University Art Gallery see map
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06520

Event description:

“Rebirth of the Flesh”: David Bowie & Prince’s (Dis)identifications—On Race, Gender, & Sexuality

Speakers:

Jack Halberstam, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, Columbia University, “Trans*Bowie”

Ann Powers, author, critic, and correspondent for NPR Music, “I Am Something You’ll Never Understand: Facing the Strange with Bowie and Prince”

Daphne A. Brooks, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Theater Studies, and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Yale University, “Blackstar, Bright Star, Not a Gangstar: Revolutionary Black Feminisms through Bowie & Prince”

Moderator: Hazel V. Carby, Professor of African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University

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