Events
“Coded Bias” Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Virtual EventThe award winning documentary Coded Bias explores how machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate society’s existing class-, race-, and gender-based inequities. While working on an assignment involving facial-recognition software, the M.I.T. Media […]
Surveillance and Cinematics: American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin
Virtual EventNext in the Visualizing Abolition series is Surveillance and Cinematics with American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with […]
HIS 185O with Edith Kulstein
Virtual EventEdith Kulstein, a French Jewish refugee who spent the WWII years in Algeria, will speaks in HIS 185O about her experiences. HIS 185O “The Holocaust And The Arab World” […]
Michael Allan — World Pictures/Global Visions
Virtual EventThis talk addresses a global network of camera operators working on behalf of the Lumière Brothers film company between 1896-1903. Not only did these camera operators record films at sites […]
Radhika Govindrajan – Labors of Love: On the Ethics and Politics of Attachment in India’s Central Himalayas
Virtual EventRadhika Govindrajan is Associate Professor Anthropology at University of Washington, Seattle. She is a cultural anthropologist who works across the fields of multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, the anthropology of religion, […]
Living Writers: Lauren Groff
Virtual EventLauren Groff is the author of five books, most recently Fates and Furies, a novel, and Florida, a short story collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the National Book […]
Yasmeen Daifallah: Legal Studies workshop
Virtual EventOn Friday, February 5th, 12-1 pm, Faculty Associate Yasmeen Daifallah (Politics) will present a paper at the Legal Studies workshop entitled "'Preparing Revolutionaries and Reforming Reformers:' Abdallah Laroui's Critique of […]
Material and Memory: Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford
Virtual EventSandord Biggers is a Harlem-based artist whose work speaks to current social, political and economic happenings. For this Visualizing Abolition event, Biggers will be joined by visual culutre theorist Leigh […]
Naya Jones — Conjure Geographies, Covid-19, and Healing Futures
Virtual EventReimagining cultural healing ways is central to healing justice, Black Lives Matter, and other contemporary movements. However, “moving from race to culture to creation,” as Resmaa Menakem puts it, takes […]
Daniella Farah: Jews in post-WWII Iran – Patriotism, national belonging, integration, and identity
Virtual EventDaniella Farah (Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University) will speak in HIS 74B about the effects of the Second World War on Jews in Iran and how this period shaped their […]