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Performed with a new international quartet project, Veiled Borders: Analog/Digital Hybridity with collaborators John Godfrey, Karen Power (Ireland) and Jane Rigler (USA). This multi-location online telematic performance was part of the Earth Day Art Mode 2020 ‘Music in Place’ online festival. (2020)


Premiered a new international quartet project, Veiled Borders: Analog/Digital Hybridity with collaborators John Godfrey, Karen Power (Ireland) and Jane Rigler (USA). The performance was part of the Irish Sound, Science, and Technology Association National Conference in Cork, Ireland, where he also performed Ujjayi, an improvisational duo project for flute and computer with Rigler. Ciufo led a masterclass on Extended Instrument Design and Improvisational Performance Practices for the students in the Experimental Sound Practice Masters program at the University College Cork, Ireland, and he presented an artist talk entitled Adventures in Electronic and Experimental Music for the students at the University College Cork, Ireland. (2019)


Cunha, Flávia Terra (2025) received an official citation from the Massachusetts House of Representatives in recognition of volunteer work involving translation and interpretation services for the Amherst Survival Center.


Day, I. Co-curator, Visual Kinship photography exhibition at the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College. On view August 30-November 29, 2025.


Day, I. (2025) Invited Speaker, “Seeing in the Dark: On Pacharee Sudhinaraset’s Worlds At the End.” NYU Book Celebration Sponsored by Department of Postcolonial Race and Diaspora Working Group, Critical Race Anti-Colonial Co-Lab, and Asian/Pacific/American Institute, March 5, 2025. 


Day, I. (2025) Invited Speaker, “Cruel Optimism in the Time of Genocide.” UC Davis, Re/Imagining Abolitionist Practices, Department of Asian American Studies, February 6, 2025.


Day, I. (2024) Plenary Address. “Settler Colonialism and the Ends of Analogy.” Dartmouth College, Summer Institute on the Futures of American Studies, June 22, 2024


Day, I. (2024) Invited Speaker, “Nuclear Power and the Waste Theory of Value.” Waseda University, Tokyo, Fifty-Eighth Japanese Association for American Studies Annual Meeting Program, June 2, 2024.


Day I. (2024). Invited Speaker and Workshop Respondent, Eco-Criticism and Capitalism, USC Transpacific Symposium, Transpacific Research Cluster, April, 19, 2024.