Events
“Coded Bias” Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Virtual EventThe award winning documentary Coded Bias explores how machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate society’s existing class-, race-, and gender-based inequities. While working on an assignment involving facial-recognition software, the M.I.T. Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini found that the algorithm couldn’t detect her face — until she put on a white mask. As she recounts in the […]
Living Writers: K-Ming Chang
Virtual EventK-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at kmingchang.com.
C. Nadia Seremetakis: The Senses Still
Virtual EventThe THI Sense Memory Cluster presents on Thursday, January 28, 10-12, Professor C. Nadia Seremetakis, author of The Last Word, The Senses Still, and Sensing the Everyday. She will discuss her practice of sensory ethnography, her theory of sense memory, and "the third stream of anamnesis" in the contemporary spread of little memorials in Greek […]
Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan – The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop and Gendered Aspirations in Urban India
Virtual EventIn the last decade, access to digital communication technologies has created opportunities for young people on the margins of the national imaginary in India to take part in transnational media worlds. In his recently published book, Dattatreyan uses the ‘globally familiar’ as an analytic to engage with the recursive effects of online media consumption, production, […]
Aomar Boum: Seeing as Memory – Graphic Memoir as Historical Ethnography
Virtual EventAomar Boum (UCLA) will speak in HIS 185O about his upcoming graphic novel collaboration recounting the story of European Jewish refugees in Morocco during the Second World War. In the last decade, graphic memoirs and novels have emerged as a significant form of historical (re)writing of past narratives and events. The medium of comics and its […]
Prisons and Poetics: Reginald Dwayne Betts and Craig Haney
Virtual EventThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences and The Humanities Institute are pleased to present a poetry reading and conversation with award-winning American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and renowned social psychologist Craig Haney, moderated by Professor Gina Dent. The event is part of the IAS Visualizing Abolition Series and The Humanities Institute's yearlong series on […]
Book Talk – Christine Hong: A Violent Peace: Race, US Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific
Virtual EventJoin us for a book Talk and celebration of Christine Hong's (Assoc Prof Lit and Director of CRES) new book A Violent Peace: Race, US Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in […]
Nick Estes and Melanie K. Yazzie, of The Red Nation
Virtual EventNick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux) and Melanie Yazzie (Diné) of The Red Nation, respond to the prompt: What lies beyond dystopian catastrophism, and how can we cultivate radical futures of […]
Dina Danon: Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora – The Jews of Late Ottoman Izmir
Virtual EventDina Danon (Binghamton University) will speak in HIS 74B on her book titled The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History (Stanford University Press, 2020). This lecture will tell the […]
Inaugurating Alternative Futures: A Conversation with Melanie Yazzie and Michelle Daigle
Virtual EventThe U.S. President’s Inauguration is on January 20th. We use that date as an occasion to think about alternative futures and political possibilities not beholden to colonial and capitalist dispossession, […]