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  • Saidiya Hartman: The Afterlife of Slavery

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    Virtual Event

    The Humanities Institute is honored to welcome esteemed Professor Saidiya Hartman for a free, live, online conversation about her relationship to the archives of Black life, the intersections between history […]

  • Dread Scott

    (Re)Enacting Revolution: Dread Scott and Erin Gray

    Virtual Event

    Dread Scott's recent large-scale art project, Slave Rebellion Reenactment, was a community-engaged performance reenacting the largest rebellion of enslaved people in U.S. history. Prof. Gray, UC Davis, will join him in […]

  • Susan Lepselter — Left-Standing

    Virtual Event

    Left-Standing is a performance of written and video poems. The video does not illustrate the writing; rather the two media become an interconnected poetics. Together, these forms of poetry engage […]

  • Lunchtime chat with Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder

    Virtual Event

    Please join the Humanities Division's newest Dean, Jasmine Alinder, to hear her thoughts on her first year as Dean as well as her inspirational vision for the growth and development of the Humanities Division. A brief talk on these topics will be followed by a casual question and answer period. All are welcome!

  • Living Writers: Anthony Cody

    Virtual Event

    Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and finalist for a 2020 National Book Award. He is a CantoMundo fellow from Fresno, California. His poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, The Boiler, ctrl+v journal, among others. Anthony is a member […]

  • Conflict and Revolutionary Possibility in North Africa: Sudan, Algeria, and the Western Sahara

    Virtual Event

    In the past several years, moments of political opposition and revolutionary possibility have continued to unfold across North Africa. In 2018, protest erupted in Sudan. Algeria followed when in 2019, President Bouteflika announced his intention to seek a fifth term. In the Western Sahara, the Polisario Front resumed its armed struggle in 2020 after the […]

  • How to Live Like Shakespeare

    Virtual Event

    This 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 […]

  • Aimee Meredith Cox — Cosmic Cartographies // BodyStorming

    Virtual Event

    This talk/participatory workshop will draw from the methods and theoretical orientation of two of Cox’s current projects. The first, Cosmic Cartographies, explores how people define and actualize strategies for Black […]

  • Jodi Dean: Anti-Communism and the Barriers to Liberation


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    COVID, climate change, and capitalism present a set of fundamental crises. What will it take for the left to be adequate to the task of addressing them? This talk will consider the barriers constituted by the continuation of anti-communist assumptions. It will draw out the limits of left “assemblism,” state-phobia, and amorphous inclusivity and highlight […]

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