Julia Chan
“Surveillance, Il/legibility, and Mixed-Race Subjectivity”
4 - 8 May 2026
writing residency
Dr. Julia Chan from the University of Calgary will be visiting the care-lab to do a writing retreat between May 4 - 8.
She will be working on her SSHRC funded project "Surveillance, Il/legibility, and Mixed-Race Subjectivity."
Julia will be in the care-lab Monday - Friday from 8:00am - 4:00pm.
ABOUT DR. CHAN'S RESEARCH
“What are you?” is a common question that just about every mixed-race person has heard. While seemingly innocent, the question has deep implications for mixed-race subjects, and for regimes of race that depend on racial legibility more broadly. This talk will discuss artwork that takes up the surveillant quality of the “What are you?” question, and asks how performance as method might engage, communicate, and/or subvert the question’s racializing, surveillant affect.
Dr. Julia Chan (she/her) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Film at the University of Calgary. Learn more by visiting her profile.
This residency is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)