Events
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
Virtual EventForging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman Sephardi Jews […]
Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States
Virtual EventJoin the Research Center for the America for their final event of the “Memory Studies in the Americas” thematic series which explores how markers or symbols of memory are imagined […]
CANCELLED: Reflections on Movement and Movement-Building
Virtual EventThis event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. What does it mean to conjure a world without borders, a world without prisons, and a world without the carceral logics […]
How to Live Like Shakespeare
Virtual EventThis series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social, spiritual, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends, and how does Shakespeare think in […]
Gregg Mitman – Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Virtual EventThom Gentle Environmental History Lecture Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that […]
Music for Abolition: Artist Panel w/ Curator Terri Lyne Carrington and Guests
Virtual EventMusic for Abolition, directed and curated by Terri Lyne Carrington, is a project bringing together musicians across a variety of genres to create a soundtrack—and provide a heartbeat—to our shared struggle for abolition. Expressing grief, rage, exhaustion, and resolution in the face of the U.S. history of racism and oppression, the music resonates with calls […]
Aarti Sethi & Navyug Gill — Dissent: Farmers, Protests, India
Virtual EventThe farmers protests in India have ignited a widespread resistance movement globally. Focused initially on repressive farm laws enacted by the Indian state, the protests have now expanded to include broader environmental, social and political concerns impacting the livelihood, independence and sustenance of working people. What was first seen as an agrarian protest movement has […]
A Fortress in Brooklyn, Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch
Virtual EventJoin authors Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch in conversation with Lila Corwin Berman about Casper and Deutsch's new book A Fortress in Brooklyn. The Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups in the entire United States. A Fortress in Brooklyn tells the remarkable story […]
Jonas Staal: Deep Future Propagandas
Virtual EventPropaganda manufactures consent and establishes normativity; it constructs reality and makes worlds. The propagandas of our present produce the futureless futures of dystopian normativity: the libertarian geoengineering of drowned worlds, Flat Earth dark-age anti-globes, and eco-fascist genocide. But these are not the only options available. From popular mass movements to new planetary unions and transnational […]
Living Writers: Joan Naviyuk Kane
Virtual EventJoan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq with family from Ugiuvak (King Island) and Qawiaraq (Mary’s Igloo). The author of eight collections of poetry and prose, she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction at Harvard, is a lecturer in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts, and was founding faculty of the graduate creative […]