ASAP/15: Not a Luxury
Thu, Oct, 17th, 9AM to 10:30 PM
Fri, Oct, 18th, 9AM to 6PM
Sat, Oct, 19th, 9AM to 11PM
This conference is held at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Park Avenue Armory, Pratt Institute, and Weeksville Heritage Center.
Dates: Thu, Oct 17th to Sat, Oct 19th. See below for the full schedule, program, registration and more details.
ASAP/15 will be an in-person conference, held at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Park Avenue Armory, Pratt Institute, and Weeksville Heritage Center. We are especially pleased to be able to partner with the Park Avenue Armory, a space dedicated to supporting unconventional works in the performing and visual arts that cannot be fully realized in a traditional proscenium theater, concert hall, or white-wall gallery.
The conference theme—Not a Luxury—takes up the poet Audre Lorde’s well-known contention that “poetry is not a luxury” and uses it as a lens through which to examine the positions of the arts in contemporary culture. Lorde’s argument that beauty and pleasure are essential components of living foregrounds questions of excess, need, and access. What does luxury mean? Who is able to luxuriate? And, what does luxury or its absence mean from an economic standpoint?
The urgency around climate change, the quickened pace of neoliberalism, and heightened conflict in many countries also prompt us to ask whether time itself has been reconfigured as a luxury no longer available amid the cascading polycrisis. In that vein, the final day of our conference—which will take place at the Armory—will be curated under the subtheme “What Time is It On the Clock of the World.” A nod to the work of writer and activist Grace Lee Boggs, who was a key figure in the Asian American, Civil Rights, and Black Power movements, this sub-theme invites participants to imagine diverse ways of characterizing the contemporary, and to insist on the luxury of daily participation in study and observation, while working toward the possibility of justice.
ASAP is committed to providing a convivial, diverse, and dynamic intellectual space in which all of our members and guests may participate freely. Our annual meetings are convened for the purpose of scholarly and artistic exchange. Harassment, discrimination, and other misconduct—during official, in-person events, as well as at off-site, ancillary events and unofficial social gatherings—interferes with the principle of equity on which our organization depends. We remind our members that professional ethical norms apply as standards of behavior at our meetings. We encourage our members to work proactively toward creating and maintaining an equitable and supportive environment.
To access some of Audre Lorde’s unpublished works, see here.
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Locations
Thursday, October 17, 2024
9am-6pm panels at The CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue: 34th St and 5th Avenue) (Midtown, Manhattan)
4:30pm- Public Keynote event Precarious Luxuries in Proshansky Auditorium at the CUNY Graduate Center.
8pm-onward: Awards ceremony and reception
Francis Kite Club (40 Losaida Avenue, East Village New York: between 3rd and 4th Street and Avenue C) (East Village/ Lower East Side, Manhattan)
Friday, October 18, 2024
9am-6pm panels at The CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue: 34th St and 5th Avenue) (midtown Manhattan)
2pm- 5pm Weeksville Heritage Center Walking Tour and Seminar (158 Buffalo Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213)
Saturday, October 19, 2024
9am-6pm panels at North Hall, Pratt Institute (Willoughby Avenue between Hall and Classon) (Clinton Hill, Brooklyn)
11am-11pm Keynote events at Park Avenue Armory (646 Park Avenue, New York: between 66th and 67th) (Upper East Side, Manhattan)
Registration
Official registration is currently closed. CUNY Graduate Students are welcome to attend panels of interest. If you are interested in getting more involved in the conference, please email Amber Musser at [email protected].
Also, the Thu, Oct 17th Keynote event Precarious Luxuries: at 4:30 PM at the CUNY Graduate Center is free and open to the public and you can register here.
Schedule and Program
Visit the ASAP15 website here for the full schedule and program.
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