Events
Events
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Living Writers: Sofia Samatar
Virtual EventSofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories, the short story collection, Tender, and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has received several honors, including the World Fantasy Award. She teaches Arabic literature, African literature, and speculative fiction at James […]
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Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (I) Sound into Form
Virtual EventPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Featuring Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Artist) and Kareem Khubchandani (Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor, […]
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Prisons, Histories and Erasures: Joanne Barker, Maria Gaspar and Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Virtual EventFor the next Visualizing Abolition event, Joanne Barker, Maria Gaspar, and Kelly Lytle Hernández join us to discuss the histories and present struggles that disappear within the labyrinthian network of […]
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Inaugurating Alternative Futures: A Conversation with Melanie Yazzie and Michelle Daigle
Virtual EventThe U.S. President’s Inauguration is on January 20th. We use that date as an occasion to think about alternative futures and political possibilities not beholden to colonial and capitalist dispossession, […]
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Dina Danon: Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora – The Jews of Late Ottoman Izmir
Virtual EventDina Danon (Binghamton University) will speak in HIS 74B on her book titled The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History (Stanford University Press, 2020). This lecture will tell the […]
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Nick Estes and Melanie K. Yazzie, of The Red Nation
Virtual EventNick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux) and Melanie Yazzie (Diné) of The Red Nation, respond to the prompt: What lies beyond dystopian catastrophism, and how can we cultivate radical futures of […]
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Book Talk – Christine Hong: A Violent Peace: Race, US Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific
Virtual EventJoin us for a book Talk and celebration of Christine Hong's (Assoc Prof Lit and Director of CRES) new book A Violent Peace: Race, US Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in […]
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Prisons and Poetics: Reginald Dwayne Betts and Craig Haney
FeaturedVirtual 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 psychologist Craig Haney, moderated by Professor Gina Dent. The event is part of the IAS Visualizing Abolition Series and The Humanities Institute's yearlong series on […]
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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 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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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 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, […]