The Institute of Dance Scholarship, Department of Dance and Boyer College of Music and Dance, with co-sponsorship from the Center for the Humanities at Temple, present Mario LaMothe of the University of Illinois at Chicago. LaMothe is also a 22-23 Institute of Dance Scholarship visiting Scholar in Residence.

LaMothe will present Yanvalou For Haiti: An Affective Ethnography of Ayikodans' Anmwey Ayiti Manman. LaMothe is an assistant professor in the departments of black studies and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on embodied pedagogies of Caribbean arts and expressive cultures, and the intersections of queer lifeworlds and social justice in Haiti.