Grad Student Colloquium with Viola Bao

Join us for lunch and a conversation with Viola Bao. Viola is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literary Studies, whose dissertation project "Diasporic Cultural Revolutions" examines the circulation of ideas, people, and aesthetic forms during the decolonizing era (ca 1950s-80s). She specifically analyzes the cultural and political impact of the Chinese Revolution and Global Maoism across transnational networks of art-making and anti-colonial thought in the wake of the 1955 Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung. Her project asks why Maoism and the Chinese Revolution became powerful imaginative forces for art movements, liberation struggles, and diasporic politics in the "long 1960s". Please note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical access to buildings and facilities is a goal of the University, but not all buildings and venues have been updated.