Events
FeaturedPrisons 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Surveillance and Cinematics: American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin
Virtual EventNext 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 […]
HIS 185O with Edith Kulstein
Virtual EventEdith 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” […]
Michael Allan — World Pictures/Global Visions
Virtual EventThis 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 […]
Radhika Govindrajan – Labors of Love: On the Ethics and Politics of Attachment in India’s Central Himalayas
Virtual EventRadhika 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, […]