{"id":1141,"date":"2015-10-20T15:23:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:00","slug":"kobena-mercer-discusses-art-and-diaspora-at-carleton-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/2015\/kobena-mercer-discusses-art-and-diaspora-at-carleton-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobena Mercer Discusses Art and Diaspora at Carleton University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Kobena Mercer Discusses Art and Diaspora at Carleton University\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>FASS Distinguished Visiting Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/afamstudies.yale.edu\/people\/kobena-mercer\" target=\"_blank\">Kobena Mercer (Yale University)<\/a> spoke with Carleton faculty and students about the tensions, characteristics and contradictions between World Studies and Diaspora Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 5, Mercer delivered a lecture in Aboubakar Sanogo\u2019s class on African Cinema from 9:30-11:30, followed by a lunch with grad students.&nbsp; Later that evening, Mercer presented a keynote lecture at the National Gallery titled : <strong>&#8220;Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s: Critical Reflections on a Journey&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 6, Mercer lead a workshop on the intersection of World Studies and Diaspora Studies in the MacOdrum Library&#8217;s Multimedia Lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FASS Distinguished Visiting Professor Kobena Mercer (Yale University) spoke with Carleton faculty and students about the tensions, characteristics and contradictions between World Studies and Diaspora Studies. On October 5, Mercer delivered a lecture in Aboubakar Sanogo\u2019s class on African Cinema from 9:30-11:30, followed by a lunch with grad students.&nbsp; Later that evening, Mercer presented a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}