Desert Futures

Opening Symposium and Screening of At(H)Ome (2013)
In Conversation with the Filmmaker Elisabeth Leuvrey, Samia Henni, and Jill Jarvis

Did you know … Beginning in 1960, France detonated 17 nuclear bombs in what is now the Algerian Sahara?
The “Desert Futures: Sahara” symposium and workshop will take place in person at Yale University from April 28 to May 1, 2022. This interdisciplinary, multi-day event will bring together a distinguished group of artists and scholars from diverse disciplinary and linguistic backgrounds to participate in conversations focused on the poetics and politics of Saharan spaces in particular. The conference includes a public opening symposium, film screenings and art exhibitions, a graduate student colloquium, and a scholarly workshop (for invited guests and registered participants).

Sponsored by Yale MacMillan Center, Yale RITM, and the Humanities/Humanity fund at the Whitney Humanities Center

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