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Creole Power: Modern Moves Closing Party

Friday 4th May 2018
Anatomy Lecture Theatre (day) and Great Hall (evening)
King’s College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS

Five years of Modern Moves draw to a close. Celebrate with us as we share our research achievements and conclusions during a full day of exciting presentations, spectacular performances, and convivial partying as we close the years off in our as per usual fabulous style! We begin with a day of presentations on our research journeys over the years:

PART I: THE RESEARCH JOURNEY
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, 1000- 1700 hrs
Ananya Kabir: Memory | respondent: Ato Quayson
Elina Djebbari: Circulations | respondent: Helene Neveu Kringelbach
Leyneuf Tines: Temporalities | respondent: Leah Gordon
Ines Guarda-Francesca Negro-Monica Esteves Reis: Syncresis | respondent: Ann David
Book launch
madison moore: Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (Yale University Press: respondents: Thomas F. DeFrantz and Tavia Nyong’o
Book your tickets for PART I are here!

PART II: VESPERTINAL
Great Hall, 1800- 2200 hrs
Mesa longa: Ananya Kabir, Gladys Francis, Marissa Moorman, Catherine Servan Schreiber
Performances by Magna Gopal (‘Defiance’) and Francesca Negro (‘O Mando Reconstruido’); Zil’oKa and Yurupari Grupo Folklorico of London
Transoceanic canapes and cr
eole cocktails
DJ sets by Willy the Viper (Paris) and John Armstrong (London)

Book your tickets for PART II are here!

Can’t wait to see you and celebrate our grand finale!