Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 7, 2021
No events on this day.
Monday, February 8, 2021
No events on this day.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
- February 9, 2021 -Material and Memory: Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford
Material and Memory: Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford
Sandord 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 Raiford for a conversation about art, materiality, violence, and possibility. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent […]
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
- February 10, 2021 -Naya Jones — Conjure Geographies, Covid-19, and Healing Futures
Naya Jones — Conjure Geographies, Covid-19, and Healing Futures
Reimagining 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 work. This talk engages in this work by centering epistemologies of Black/African-American traditional medicine, often reclaimed as “conjure.” Drawing on short stories by Zora Neale […]
Thursday, February 11, 2021
- February 11, 2021 -Daniella Farah: Jews in post-WWII Iran – Patriotism, national belonging, integration, and identity
- February 11, 2021Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli
Daniella Farah: Jews in post-WWII Iran – Patriotism, national belonging, integration, and identity
Daniella 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 political subjectivities. Jews have lived in Iran for over 2,500 years, with a population of 100,000 at their height in 1945. Today, Iran contains the […]
Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty […]
Friday, February 12, 2021
- February 12, 2021 -PhD+ Workshop – Podcasting and the Humanities
PhD+ Workshop – Podcasting and the Humanities
Interested in podcasting and the different ways you can engage this medium as a scholar? This session will focus on how podcasting might fit into your academic and career goals, including approaches for developing your own podcasting project, building scholarly and community networks with podcast interviews, preparing to be interviewed on a podcast, and the […]
Saturday, February 13, 2021
No events on this day.