Events
Ji Young Kim: La prosodia del Uptalk en el Español de Herencia
Virtual EventEl objetivo de este estudio es investigar los patrones entonativos del uptalk en el español de los hablantes de herencia en Los Ángeles, cuyos padres emigraron de México. El uptalk, también llamado High Rising Terminal (HRT), se trata de la entonación ascendente en enunciados declarativos. Generalmente se considera que el uptalk es un rasgo prosódico […]
Pasolini in Morocco: The Geopolitics of Cinematic Space and Transnational Production
Virtual EventMorocco, and especially the desert oasis of Ouarzazate, is well-known as a destination for big-budget Hollywood film productions like The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988) and Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000). Well before those films, however, iconoclastic Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) shot his Oedipus the King in the same region in 1966. […]
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
Virtual EventForging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman Sephardi Jews […]
Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States
Virtual EventJoin the Research Center for the America for their final event of the “Memory Studies in the Americas” thematic series which explores how markers or symbols of memory are imagined […]
CANCELLED: Reflections on Movement and Movement-Building
Virtual EventThis event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. What does it mean to conjure a world without borders, a world without prisons, and a world without the carceral logics […]
How to Live Like Shakespeare
Virtual EventThis 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 […]
Gregg Mitman – Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Virtual EventThom Gentle Environmental History Lecture Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles […]
Music for Abolition: Artist Panel w/ Curator Terri Lyne Carrington and Guests
Virtual EventMusic for Abolition, directed and curated by Terri Lyne Carrington, is a project bringing together musicians across a variety of genres to create a soundtrack—and provide a heartbeat—to our shared […]
Aarti Sethi & Navyug Gill — Dissent: Farmers, Protests, India
Virtual EventThe farmers protests in India have ignited a widespread resistance movement globally. Focused initially on repressive farm laws enacted by the Indian state, the protests have now expanded to include […]
A Fortress in Brooklyn, Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch
Virtual EventJoin authors Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch in conversation with Lila Corwin Berman about Casper and Deutsch's new book A Fortress in Brooklyn. The Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is […]