Closing Notes

Abstract

The Closing Notes are co-authored by Richa Nagar with Siddharth Iyengar and Sara Musaifer, two of the 27 participants who immersed themselves in the first two semesters of the teaching of 'Stories, Bodies, Movements' at the University of Minnesota. Iyengar is a doctoral candidate in Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior and Sara Musaifer is pursuing her Ph.D. in Comparative International Development Education. This co-authorship of the closing notes embodies the anti-disciplinary and anti-hierarchical vision and ongoing nature of the project of hungry translations. Through reflections on their own unlearning and relearning processes during the making of two plays in class, 'Re/telling Disappearing Tales' (Spring 2017) and 'Fractured Threads' (Fall 2017), the three authors collectively re-enact, in a radically vulnerable mode, the key arguments of the book.