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    Saidiya Hartman: The Afterlife of Slavery

    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 and literature, and the politics of memory. Confronting slavery and its long, unfinished aftermath, Hartman’s work is a brave, imaginative, genre-bending exercise in historical resurrection. […]

  • 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 be essential to social, spiritual, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends, and how does Shakespeare think in […]

  • Reparations for Black Americans: The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond

    Virtual Event

    In 2020, California established the nation’s first state task force to study and make recommendations on reparations for the institution of slavery, the atrocities that followed the end of slavery, and the discrimination against freed slaves and their descendants from the end of the Civil War to the present. Although the movement for reparations extends […]

  • Rebecca Hernandez

    Rebecca Hernandez — Categories, Identities, and Objects: Naming Native Art

    Virtual Event

    This presentation will examine the inherent complexities in the academic study and public representation of American Indian culture(s), and how the categorization and defining of Native American objects aids in the construction of American Indian identity. RSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday, April 14th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM […]

  • Abolition from the Inside Out w/ jackie sumell, Albert Woodfox, and Tim Young

    Virtual Event

    The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to partner with the Legal Studies Program to present jackie sumell, Albert Woodfox, and Tim Young. Award-winning artist jackie sumell works collaboratively with people incarcerated across the U.S. to promote abolition. Albert Woodfox is an activist and author who spent decades in solitary confinement at the […]

  • Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist

    Virtual Event

    NPR science reporter Lulu Miller will discuss her fantastic nonfiction debut Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss. Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (available in paperback on April 6th). This riveting book, begins with an account of biologist David Starr Jordan, and then goes down a rabbit hole of history, morality, and […]

  • 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 be essential to social, spiritual, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends, and how does Shakespeare think in […]

  • Living Writers: Andrea Abi-Karam with Literature Graduate Student Madison McCartha 

    Virtual Event

    Andrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg, writing on the art of killing bros, the intricacies of cyborg bodies, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions, 2016), attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Under the full Community Engagement Scholarship, Andrea received their MFA in […]

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