Events
Week of Events
Sunday, January 24, 2021
No events on this day.
Monday, January 25, 2021
No events on this day.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
- Featured January 26, 2021 -Featured Prisons and Poetics: Reginald Dwayne Betts and Craig Haney
- January 26, 2021 -Aomar Boum: Seeing as Memory – Graphic Memoir as Historical Ethnography
Prisons and Poetics: Reginald Dwayne Betts and Craig Haney
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences and The Humanities Institute are pleased to present a poetry reading and conversation with award-winning American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and renowned social psychologist Craig Haney, moderated by Professor Gina Dent. The event is part of the IAS Visualizing Abolition Series and The Humanities Institute's yearlong series on […]
Aomar Boum: Seeing as Memory – Graphic Memoir as Historical Ethnography
Aomar Boum (UCLA) will speak in HIS 185O about his upcoming graphic novel collaboration recounting the story of European Jewish refugees in Morocco during the Second World War. In the last decade, graphic memoirs and novels have emerged as a significant form of historical (re)writing of past narratives and events. The medium of comics and its […]
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
- January 27, 2021 -Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan – The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop and Gendered Aspirations in Urban India
Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan – The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop and Gendered Aspirations in Urban India
In the last decade, access to digital communication technologies has created opportunities for young people on the margins of the national imaginary in India to take part in transnational media worlds. In his recently published book, Dattatreyan uses the ‘globally familiar’ as an analytic to engage with the recursive effects of online media consumption, production, […]
Thursday, January 28, 2021
- January 28, 2021 -C. Nadia Seremetakis: The Senses Still
- January 28, 2021Living Writers: K-Ming Chang
- January 28, 2021“Coded Bias” Film Screening and Panel Discussion
C. Nadia Seremetakis: The Senses Still
The THI Sense Memory Cluster presents on Thursday, January 28, 10-12, Professor C. Nadia Seremetakis, author of The Last Word, The Senses Still, and Sensing the Everyday. She will discuss her practice of sensory ethnography, her theory of sense memory, and "the third stream of anamnesis" in the contemporary spread of little memorials in Greek […]
Living Writers: K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at kmingchang.com.
“Coded Bias” Film Screening and Panel Discussion
The 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 Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini found that the algorithm couldn’t detect her face — until she put on a white mask. As she recounts in the […]
Friday, January 29, 2021
No events on this day.
Saturday, January 30, 2021
No events on this day.