Inclusion Week 2022

Update: Visit the Post Inclusion Week Summary Page with links to the video of our panel, which I facilitated and organized. Finalized the graphics for Inclusion Week and experimented with bolder colors. Still using faded versions when working with bold text for single event graphic promotions. I also created the landing page. Not too fancy: https://rights.info.yorku.ca/inclusion-week-2022/ The materials also include an event program with live registration links. I will be moderating the first panel on March 1 with a colleague. The topic/theme is literally the stuff of feminist political economy so I am excited.

The inspiration for this was the color impressionist Georges Seurat's style (optical blending/pointillism), most famously seen in the painting: 'A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte'. Ironically, what Seurat was capturing was a glimpse of wealthy Parisian life, while our event is all about inclusion! But, then again Marxists of the day did rave about Seurat's mechanical depiction of the rich: "Modern-day opinions of Seurat's work seem to concur in parts with Bloch's view of the work. In her work Seurat's Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory Linda Nochlin highlights the lack of interaction between Seurat's figures and argues that Seurat's work is explicitly political in its content.

By making the figures lack any uniqueness or articulation Seurat has undermined the traditional concept of Western depiction. Here there is no meaning to be interpreted, story to be actualized or hidden meaning to be discovered. Nochlin also notes that Seurat's choice of dots over stroke is a representation of the mechanical nature of the piece."

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