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Erika and Paul H. Bourguignon Lecture in Art and Anthropology
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Join ethnographer, writer, and movement artist Aimee Meredith Cox for a conversation about art and anthropology.
An associate professor of Anthropology at New York University, Cox has performed internationally with Ailey II and the Dance Theatre of Harlem and has choreographed performances in Newark, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. Professor Cox and Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, assistant professor in the Department of Dance at Ohio State, will discuss the connections between the fields of anthropology and dance. Cox will also share insights into her current performance and writing project, Living Past Slow Death, based on research among Black communities in Cincinnati. A Q&A and reception will follow the talk.
IMAGE CAPTIONAimee Meredith Cox, photo courtesy of On White Wall and Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Ohio State Department of Anthropology’s annual Bourguignon Lecture Series is named in part after former department chair and professor Erika Bourguignon (1924–2015). A lover of the arts, Professor Bourguignon pioneered the field of psychological anthropology, created a weekly radio program on world music, and was the first chair of the Council on Academic Excellence for Women. Read more about the Paul H. and Erika Bourguignon Lecture Series in Art and Anthropology.
Aimee Meredith Cox is a critical ethnographer, writer, and movement artist. Cox has performed and toured internationally and has choreographed performances as interventions in Newark, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. Cox also leads yoga teacher trainings and continuing education workshops around the globe. She is currently working on two books and a performance ethnographic intervention based on research among Black communities in Cincinnati. Her first book, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke 2015), earned the 2016 Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing and the 2017 Book award from the Society for the Anthropology of North America.
This event is co-organized and presented by Ohio State’s Department of Anthropology.
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