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  • Living Writers: Lauren Groff

    Virtual Event

    Lauren Groff is the author of five books, most recently Fates and Furies, a novel, and Florida, a short story collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the National Book Award, has won the Story Prize and France’s Grand Prix de L'héroïne, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists.  Her next […]

  • Radhika Govindrajan – Labors of Love: On the Ethics and Politics of Attachment in India’s Central Himalayas

    Virtual Event

    Radhika Govindrajan is Associate Professor Anthropology at University of Washington, Seattle. She is a cultural anthropologist who works across the fields of multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, the anthropology of religion, South Asian Studies, and political anthropology. Her award-winning book Animal Intimacies is an ethnography of multispecies relatedness in the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in […]

  • Michael Allan — World Pictures/Global Visions

    Virtual Event

    This talk addresses a global network of camera operators working on behalf of the Lumière Brothers film company between 1896-1903. Not only did these camera operators record films at sites from Algiers to Berlin to Tokyo, they also pictured the world anew, whether framing a street scene in Alexandria or offering a close up on […]

  • HIS 185O with Edith Kulstein

    Virtual Event

    Edith Kulstein, a French Jewish refugee who spent the WWII years in Algeria, will speaks in HIS 185O about her experiences.   HIS 185O “The Holocaust And The Arab World” examines World War II in North Africa and the Middle East. Through primary and secondary sources, films, and novels, students consider WWII and the Holocaust […]

  • American Artist, Simone Browne and Ruha Benjamin

    Surveillance and Cinematics: American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin

    Virtual Event

    Next in the Visualizing Abolition series is Surveillance and Cinematics with American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Dr. Gina Dent and featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Visualizing Abolition is a […]

  • “Coded Bias” Film Screening and Panel Discussion

    Virtual Event

    The 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 Event

    K-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 Event

    The 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 Event

    In 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 Event

    Aomar 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 […]

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