In this very special IACS, we’ll sit down with Jason Moran to explore how music, history, and activism are created and sustained by jazz improvisation and Black military history. Centered on jazz as a form of cultural resistance and historical storytelling, the conversation examines how sound and performance carry narratives often missing from traditional archives. We’ll talk about improvisation as both a creative practice and a way of understanding lived experience. By tracing the intersections of music, story, and social struggle, let’s hear jazz not only as art, but as a vital method for preserving, interpreting, and re-shaping history.
Interdisciplinary Arts Community Sessions (IACS)— provide a platform for scholars, students, campus partners, and community members to engage with artists across disciplines, grounding real-world practice in an academic context and cultural inquiry. Each colloquium event is developed in collaboration with relevant departments to strengthen curricular connections, deepen artistic discourse, and foster sustainable interdisciplinary relationships. IACS launched in 2025 in partnership between the WUT, OMAI and WUDPAC, replacing the Wisconsin Union Theater’s performance classes that are periodically offered as engagement opportunities with the WUT's season's artists.
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