# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Faculty Book Launch Event - Jordache A. Ellapen
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 01 Oct, 2025 at 05:00 pm – Wed, 01 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a launch and celebration of Jordache A. Ellapen's (newly appointed Associate Professor of Black Studies) new book, Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness (Duke University Press, 2025) in Hawkins-Carlson!

Hosted by the Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies, Professor Ellapen will be in dialogue with Professor Matthew Omelsky (Associate Professor of Black Studies and English) and Professor Pamila Gupta (Research Professor, University of the Free State, South Africa). Indenture Aesthetics is the first book length study to examine South African Blackness and Afro-Indian intimacies through a Queer Studies framework. The book analyses the visual culture and performance art practices of Black and Afro-Indian women and LGBTIQ+ artists and positions the aesthetic as pivotal to the ongoing pursuit of Black freedom in Southern Africa.

Copies of his book will be available for sale at the event or on our website!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rochester/faculty-book-launch-event-jordache-a-ellapen/200028830421159
- **Event Categories**: art, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Rochester
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: River Campus Libraries
- **lat**: 43.128548351416
- **long**: -77.628422171911
- **full address**: River Campus Libraries, 755 Library Rd, Rochester, NY 14627, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Faculty Book Launch Event - Jordache A. Ellapen being held?
  - **A:** Faculty Book Launch Event - Jordache A. Ellapen takes place on Wed, 01 Oct, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Wed, 01 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm at River Campus Libraries, 755 Library Rd, Rochester, NY 14627, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Faculty Book Launch Event - Jordache A. Ellapen?
  - **A:** Faculty Book Launch Event - Jordache A. Ellapen is organized by Barnes & Noble at University of Rochester.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Faculty Book Launch Event - Jordache A. Ellapen is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Rochester, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Faculty Book Launch Event - Jordache A. Ellapen sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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