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Savannah Shange – Abolition as Method: Anti-blackness, Anthropology and Ethics
Savannah Shange – Abolition as Method: Anti-blackness, Anthropology and Ethics
This talk draws on Savannah Shange's recently published book, Progressive Dystopia, in which she argues that San Francisco is a site of social apocalypse for Black communities. Given the momentum ‘abolition’ has as a political critique of prisons and policing, what does it offer us as scholars trying to apprehend the broad set of violences […]
Urmi Engineer Willoughby – Cultivating Malaria in the Gulf South, 1718-1860
Urmi Engineer Willoughby – Cultivating Malaria in the Gulf South, 1718-1860
The Thom Gentle Environmental History Lecture In this talk, Urmi Willoughby will present her research on agriculture, development, and the growth of endemic fevers in lower Louisiana. She will explore why fevers spread in the borderlands of the Gulf South and lower Mississippi Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and show how economic and […]
PhD+ Workshop – Stop #disserhating, Start Writing
PhD+ Workshop – Stop #disserhating, Start Writing
Not sure how to begin your dissertation work? Having a hard time fitting writing in amidst other obligations? Stuck in the middle of your process? Huh, what process? 8th-year PhD candidate struggling to finish? In this interactive workshop, PhD students at all stages will have the opportunity to anonymously submit questions and concerns about the […]