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Wednesday, April 1
Hours: 7:30AM - 1AM
–ZSR Library, 477Zotero is a powerful (and free!) tool for saving, organizing, and citing research sources. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to install Zotero, how to use it to build your own library of sources, and save yourself time when writing research papers. This hands-on session is oriented toward first-time users of Zotero. No familiarity with Zotero is required. Participants should bring their own Mac or Windows laptop (Chrome browser required). Register for a workshop here!
–ZSR Library, Library Auditorium (Room 404)“Artist, Body, Rupture in Warped Time”. Guest Lecture: Prof. Yin Mei, CUNY–Queens College. Wednesday, April 1, 2026. 5:00–6:30 pm. ZSR Auditorium (Room 404). Free Admission; Open to the Public.
This lecture examines how the artist’s body became a living archive during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), a decade when ideology reorganized aesthetics, labor, and memory. Having grown up within the strict artistic regime that permitted only two revolutionary model ballets—The White-Haired Girl and The Red Detachment of Women—I was formed as a dancer inside a system where the body was both an instrument of state narrative and site of political inscription.
Through three intersecting historical encounters, I investigate how rupture produces what I call warped time:.
First, Nixon in China, which stages the 1972 diplomatic meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon. In 2012, I choreographed this opera at Théâtre du Châtelet, bringing embodied memories of performing The Red Detachment of Women into a Western operatic reconstruction of the same historical moment. Thirty years later, I returned those stories—once tightly controlled by ideology—back to the global stage.
Second, Chung Kuo Cina by Michelangelo Antonioni, filmed in China during the Cultural Revolution and subsequently banned. Antonioni documented the Red Flag Canal in Lin County, a monumental irrigation project constructed manually by workers and artists sent to “experience life.” I was among 400 performers from the Henan Song and Dance Company assigned to live and labor alongside those builders. The canal was framed domestically as a heroic collectivist triumph, yet Antonioni’s lens diverged from the image the state wished to project. Representation itself became rupture.
Drawing from Daoist cosmology, the I Ching, and Deleuze’s Body without Organs, I articulate my choreographic methodology, The Inner Technology of Knowing, as a somatic epistemology emerging from these historical fractures. My current project, Body in Warped Time, extends this inquiry, proposing the body as a dynamic technology for survival when official narratives collapse.
Through philosophical reflection, archival materials, and performance excerpts, this lecture situates the artist’s body as witness, sensor, and counter-memory—revealing how history persists not linearly, but through embodied recurrence.
https://wakethearts.wfu.edu/2026/02/half-the-sky-yin-mei-dance/.
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Additional Events in the Series.
Half the Sky – Yin Mei Dance.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026.
7:30–8:30 pm.
Brendle Recital Hall, Wake Forest University.
“Wellness through Dance and Somatic Education”.
Guest Lecture & Demonstration: Prof. Yin Mei, CUNY–Queens College.
Thursday, April 2, 2026.
5:00–6:00 pm.
Benson 409.
–ZSR Library, The Studio @ 262Deed-Mapping Training Session is a part of The Studio Workshop Series.
This session combines a brief historical and technical orientation with hands-on practice. The first half introduces the historical background of housing discrimination in Forsyth County and walks participants through platform navigation. The second half allows participants to actively transcribe deeds with guided supervision.
Participants will learn:.
How housing discrimination shaped urban development in Forsyth CountyHow to identify restrictive clauses in primary source documentsHow to accurately transcribe and categorize covenant languageHow individual contributions help build a searchable public datasetBest practices for efficient and accurate archival workThis format balances education and productivity and is especially well-suited for first-time groups who want to leave with completed, meaningful contributions.
Equipment & Preparation:.
Participants should bring:.
A laptop (strongly recommended for ease of transcription)Access to Wi-FiZooniverse runs in a web browser, and creating an account prior to the session is encouraged.
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This program is led by Studio intern Roksanna Keyvan, whose interdisciplinary background in Environmental and Social Justice focuses on strategy, governance, and public impact. She has experience developing digital tools and leading workshops that support data-driven social justice initiatives, including work connected to Mapping Prejudice in Forsyth County.