CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now
Irene Chan (Visual Arts)
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216
Date & Time
April 30, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
Spring 2018 Works-in-Progress Talks
Railroad Track of Violence: Stories about the Chinese in Ninenteenth-Century America
Irene Chan, Associate Professor, Visual Arts, and 2018 Dresher Center Residential Faculty Fellow
Using storytelling and new media, Irene Chan's interdisciplinary digital history and art project, Railroad Track of Violence, examines and documents the forgotten history of violence against Chinese immigrants. Expanding the project's multimedia collection of miniature art books, Professor Chan is adding personal narratives and songs that depict horrific acts against the Chinese and the ways that these new Americans courageously fought back. She will discuss her research in locating first-person accounts from the Chinese and other townspeople. These life histories will eventually be voice-recorded and added to the project's website.
Railroad Track of Violence: Stories about the Chinese in Ninenteenth-Century America
Irene Chan, Associate Professor, Visual Arts, and 2018 Dresher Center Residential Faculty Fellow
Using storytelling and new media, Irene Chan's interdisciplinary digital history and art project, Railroad Track of Violence, examines and documents the forgotten history of violence against Chinese immigrants. Expanding the project's multimedia collection of miniature art books, Professor Chan is adding personal narratives and songs that depict horrific acts against the Chinese and the ways that these new Americans courageously fought back. She will discuss her research in locating first-person accounts from the Chinese and other townspeople. These life histories will eventually be voice-recorded and added to the project's website.
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