Dancing with the Dead
Hosted by IU Indianapolis Arts & Humanities InstituteJoin IU Indianapolis’s Arts & Humanities Institute for a presentation entitled “Speculative Play and Religious Innovation in Afro-Atlantic Mortuary Performance,” presented by Dr. Yanique Hume, Speculative Play and Just Futurities…
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Join IU Indianapolis’s Arts & Humanities Institute for a presentation entitled “Speculative Play and Religious Innovation in Afro-Atlantic Mortuary Performance,” presented by Dr. Yanique Hume, Speculative Play and Just Futurities Resident Scholar.
Dr. Yanique Hume is an interdisciplinary scholar, priestess, dancer, and choreographer who specializes in the religious, performed, and popular cultures of the Caribbean and the broader African Diaspora. She is Head of the Department of Cultural Studies and Lecturer at the University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Dr. Hume is the co-editor of Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora (2013); Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance (2016); and Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean (2018). She has also conducted substantial research on the creative and cultural industries of the Caribbean. As a dancer and choreographer, Dr. Hume has worked with companies in her native Jamaica as well as in Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil. She is the recipient of grants from the Social Science Research Council, the International Development Research Centre, Ford Foundation, and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.