Events
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
CANCELLED: PhD+ Publishing Workshop
Virtual EventThis event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. As co-editors of the recently published special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies on Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective, we […]
Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (II) Jagged Environments
Virtual EventPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Featured speakers: Amita Baviskar (Professor, Sociology-Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Ashoka University) and […]
Roumyana Pancheva Linguistics Colloquium
Virtual EventFor more information, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
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 […]
Yasmeen Daifallah — Theorize and Decolonize: Critiques of Colonial Subjectivity in Contemporary Arab Thought
Virtual EventWhat does it take to cultivate decolonized subjects in postcolonial times? When anti-colonial struggles are all said and done, and the dust settles on a profoundly reshaped social, economic, and […]
One year later, have we gotten anywhere?
Virtual EventOn May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered when a white police officer placed his knee on Floyd’s neck. Coast-to-coast, protests erupted, and, locally, Santa Cruz police Chief Andy Mills […]
Bombay Katta: The City and its Poor
Virtual EventKatta signifies casual and engaged conversation, but unlike its distant cousin the Bengali Adda, it also denotes a space where friends come to talk and listen. Juned Shaikh and Sheetal […]