Events
Events
Visualizing Abolition: Visuality and Carceral Formations – Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray, and Nicholas Mirzoeff
Virtual EventThe third event in the Visualizing Abolition series brings together visual and cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray, and Nicholas Mirzoeff to consider the roles of visual culture in normalizing […]
Vicente Rafael & Jorgge Menna Barreto – Authoritarianism in the Philippines and Brazil
Virtual EventThis dialogic colloquium enjoins us to learn about and reflect on authoritarianism in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines and Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil. In each of these democracies, what histories and dynamics have […]
Pascha Bueno-Hansen: Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes – Transitional Justice Otherwise
Virtual EventCo-presented with Research Center for the Americas, Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen will provide a lunch time webinar lecture on the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to […]
Living Writers: Dawn Lundy Martin
Virtual EventDawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for […]
Beyond the End of the World: Manifesta 13 Artist Talk
Virtual EventWar ecologies call forth not just mutuality but collapse, survival within violence. Conflict involves corporate extraction and militarised assaults on environments and environmentalists, while multispecies life and coexistence fall under grave threat. In its curatorial presentation, the Center for Creative Ecologies offers two artistic case studies asking what kind of pluriverse is possible in the face of […]
Donka Farkas: Canonical and non-canonical speech acts
Virtual EventThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Donka Farkas speaking on Canonical and non-canonical speech acts. Zoom Information will be emailed on Thursday, November 19, 2020. Abstract The general issue addressed in this talk is how best to characterize canonical and non-canonical speech acts. The framework I will use is rooted in Farkas and […]
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Special post-election conversation
FeaturedVirtual EventWe’re thrilled to welcome Ta-Nehisi Coates, one of our country's best thinkers and writers, for a virtual conversation about the state of our country post-election, truth telling, and the idea […]
Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
Virtual EventDust off your copies of What Shall We Have for Dinner? by Lady Clutterbuck and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and join us for three interactive sessions exploring Victorian kitchens and cocktails. Dickens […]
Visualizing Abolition: Film Screening “Lessons of the Hour”
Virtual EventIn collaboration with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, we are pleased to present a limited online screening of Isaac Julien Lessons of the Hour as a part of the Visualizing […]
Visualizing Abolition: Abolition Then and Now w/ Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley
Virtual EventAbolition Then & Now with historian and cultural theorist Robin D. G. Kelley and artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, co-presented with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, is the next event […]