Events
Week of Events
Sunday, May 16, 2021
No events on this day.
Monday, May 17, 2021
- May 17, 2021 -Gregg Mitman – Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
- May 17, 2021 -How to Live Like Shakespeare
Gregg Mitman – Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Thom 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 and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that […]
How to Live Like Shakespeare
This 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 be essential to social, spiritual, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends, and how does Shakespeare think in […]
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
- May 18, 2021 -Music for Abolition: Artist Panel w/ Curator Terri Lyne Carrington and Guests
Music for Abolition: Artist Panel w/ Curator Terri Lyne Carrington and Guests
Music 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 struggle for abolition. Expressing grief, rage, exhaustion, and resolution in the face of the U.S. history of racism and oppression, the music resonates with calls […]
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
- May 19, 2021 -Aarti Sethi & Navyug Gill — Dissent: Farmers, Protests, India
- May 19, 2021 -A Fortress in Brooklyn, Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch
Aarti Sethi & Navyug Gill — Dissent: Farmers, Protests, India
The 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 broader environmental, social and political concerns impacting the livelihood, independence and sustenance of working people. What was first seen as an agrarian protest movement has […]
A Fortress in Brooklyn, Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch
Join 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 famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups in the entire United States. A Fortress in Brooklyn tells the remarkable story […]
Thursday, May 20, 2021
- May 20, 2021 -Jonas Staal: Deep Future Propagandas
- May 20, 2021 -Living Writers: Joan Naviyuk Kane
Jonas Staal: Deep Future Propagandas
Propaganda manufactures consent and establishes normativity; it constructs reality and makes worlds. The propagandas of our present produce the futureless futures of dystopian normativity: the libertarian geoengineering of drowned worlds, Flat Earth dark-age anti-globes, and eco-fascist genocide. But these are not the only options available. From popular mass movements to new planetary unions and transnational […]
Living Writers: Joan Naviyuk Kane
Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq with family from Ugiuvak (King Island) and Qawiaraq (Mary’s Igloo). The author of eight collections of poetry and prose, she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction at Harvard, is a lecturer in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts, and was founding faculty of the graduate creative […]
Friday, May 21, 2021
- May 21, 2021 -CANCELLED: PhD+ Publishing Workshop
- May 21, 2021 -Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (II) Jagged Environments
- May 21, 2021Roumyana Pancheva Linguistics Colloquium
CANCELLED: PhD+ Publishing Workshop
This event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. As co-editors of the recently published special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies on Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective, we […]
Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (II) Jagged Environments
Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Featured speakers: Amita Baviskar (Professor, Sociology-Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Ashoka University) and Gökçe Günel (Assistant Professor, Antropology Rice University).
Roumyana Pancheva Linguistics Colloquium
For more information, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
Saturday, May 22, 2021
No events on this day.