Join professor Rob Buscher on Facing Change, on the new online speaker series.
Monday December 14 at 6:00 -7:30 pm
Every other month, the Barnes Foundation is bringing together artists, scholars, and community activists virtually for a multicultural and intergenerational conversation about race in America.
This conversation focuses on race as a social construct—the understanding that racial categories are manmade, not supported by biological science. The panel features film and media scholar Rob Buscher, writer and arts administrator Kalela Williams, and performing artist Ani Gavino, with producer Loraine Ballard Morrill as moderator. During the program, you’ll be encouraged to use the chat function to submit your own questions.
Ahead of the program, we encourage you to read Buscher’s writing on race in America in Pacific Citizen.
Buscher is an arts administrator, educator, and writer and serves as board chair of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, an internationally recognized leader in the festival circuit. He developed the Japanese Cinema and Asian American Studies curriculum at Arcadia University and cofounded Zipangu Fest, the UKʼs first Japanese film festival. Buscher is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, where he chairs the editorial board of its newspaper Pacific Citizen.
