The City Tech Library’s Scholarly Communication Committee and Faculty Commons are excited to host an interdisciplinary panel discussion about Art and Alternative Scholarship with panelists: Prof. Robin Michals (Communication Design), Prof. Kel Karpinski (Library), and Prof. Javiela Evangelista (African American Studies). Prof. Nora Almeida from the Library will Moderate.
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- When: Friday, April 4th from 12:45-2pm
- Where: Faculty Commons N-227 and on zoom
The Panel
Scholars, publishers, and institutions are increasingly embracing experimental, autoethnographic, hybrid, and interdisciplinary approaches to research and art. This shift reflects a larger cultural recognition of the limits of traditional publishing, exhibition, and professional forums to capture the shifting landscapes of socially engaged, embodied, and publicly situated art and research practices. In this panel, we’ve invited scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to discuss their creative and scholarly work and to begin an important dialogue about the potential for art and alternative research to transform institutional paradigms around “what counts.”
The Panelists
Javiela Evangelista is an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department A public anthropologist, she engages in participatory research on citizenship and racialization in the African Diaspora. Evangelista’s book manuscript is an ethnographic analysis of the largest case of mass statelessness in the western hemisphere, the contemporary denationalization of Dominicans of Haitian descent in Dominican Republic. Her work has been featured at the Venice Biennale and in the Publication of Afro-Latin/American Research Association (PALARA), National Political Science Review and Interdisciplinary Team Teaching (Palgrave). She is a founding member of We Are All Dominican a collective against statelessness.
Learn about statelessness in Dominican Republic from Reconoci.do an independent civic network, made up mainly of Dominicans of Haitian descent, which promotes human rights.
Robin Michals is a photographer whose focus is dance and performance. Current clients include Artichoke Dance, the Center for Performance Research, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, Earth Celebration, the International Human Rights Arts Festival, the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation, and the Queensboro Dance Festival among others. From 2010-2022, she documented environmental issues. This work was exhibited at St. Francis University, the Marshall J. Gardener Center for the Art and in THE FENCE in 2019-2020. Her work was selected for Critical Mass Top 50 in 2019 and in 2020, it was one of eight winners of the 7th Tokyo International Photography Competition.
Kel R. Karpinski (he/they) is an Associate Professor and the Information Technology & Interlibrary Loan Librarian at the New York City College of Technology, CUNY. Their research focuses on mid-century queer films and novels as they relate to sailors and hustlers in Times Square and how these texts map queer desire onto the city. Kel is a zine maker and a NY Queer Zine Fair organizer. Their zines bridge their work between academia and libraries with the greater queer community.
Kel also works with The Queer Zine Archive Project.
