IICSI Research Studio Session Graphic for the Keynote Presentation by Rashida K. Braggs: Amber in the City of Light. A black and white image of Dr. Braggs is punctuated with colourful polka dots. Amber in the City of Lights, by Dr. Rashida K. Braggs. Friday, April 12, 2024. All Day Event. Keynote at 9:00 AM (ET), Student Presentations to Follow. The event is Free and takes place in ImprovLab. Thinking Spaces 2023–24: Dr. Rashida K. Braggs

This Thinking Spaces session, “Amber in the City of Light” with guest Dr. Rashida Braggs, took place on April 12, 2024.

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Dr. Rashida K. Braggs screens and discusses Amber in the City of Light, a solo multimedia performance that shares and re-envisions the experiences of Black African diasporic women jazz artists who have migrated to Paris, France. Culling original interviews, field notes and archival research, Dr. Rashida K. Braggs enacts multiple narratives through an embodied performance that merges original song, dance, poetry and theatre.

More About the Speaker:

Dr. Rashida K. Braggs is a scholar-performer who acts, dances, sings, composes music and performs spoken word. Jacob’s Pillow, Williams College Museum of Art, the Tapir Art Gallery and the United Solo Theatre Festival have featured her performances. She is also a Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts), a Fulbright Global Scholar, and a co-recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship. The author of Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music and Migration in Post-World War II Paris, Rashida has also published in such journals as the Nottingham French Studies, the Journal of Popular Music Studies and The Black Scholar.