Join us to discuss excerpts from author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions, 2018), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 […]

The talk is taken from Communal Luxury (forthcoming from Editions La fabrique). Ross discusses the political imaginary that fueled and outlived the Paris Commune of 1871, here considered within frames provided by contemporary militant concerns: the problem of refashioning an internationalist conjuncture; the future of education, labor and the status of art; the commune-form and […]

The Medici Archive Project Presents: Preview a presentation by Lisa Kaborycha of the Medici Archive Project, Florence, of  a new, interactive digital platform that will debut as freeware this July. This platform is adaptable for the needs of many kinds of document management, and Lisa will be on hand to discuss its properties and capacities.

Ethan Michaeli will explore how The Chicago Defender, the nation’s most important African American newspaper for much of the twentieth century, covered the Holocaust. During the 1940s, the newspaper’s multi-racial roster of writers, including a young Jewish editor named Ben Burns, connected the struggle of African Americans for equal rights to Nazi persecution of Jews. […]