MamaRay: A Panel on the Anthropocene and Afro-Futurism

'The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke presents a roundtable discussion around Wangechi Mutu's MamaRay, the first sculpture commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art. The event brings together several Duke faculty members, including Co-Director of the Amazon Humanities Lab, Dr. Gustavo Furtado; Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, Dr. Michaeline Crichlow; the Anne-Marie Bryan Chair in French and Francophone Studies, Prof. Felwine Sarr, the R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Dr. Priscilla Wald; and the John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History, Dr. Richard J. Powell, who along with Nasher Museum Director, Trevor Schoonmaker, offer responses to MamaRay as a starting point of critical reflection and provide a context for its interpretation.'