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Value the Voice: A Storyteller's Lounge
MIrror, MIrror: Finding you in new places and spaces
Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of educational entertainment known to mankind. From the West African tradition of the Griot to...
High Stakes Culture: The Power of the Pronoun
Angela Dillard, Scott Larson, Robin Queen
Over the past few years, “culture wars” have been ignited across the country. Activists from all points of the political spectrum, even...
Asmarina: Voices and Images of a Postcolonial Heritage
Film screening and Q&A with filmmaker Medhin Paolos
Please join us for a screening of Medhin Paolos' film, Asmarina: Voices and Images of a Postcolonial Heritage. Following the screening,...
Meet and Greet with Writer | Producer | Director Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar
Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar
Please join us for a free lunch with Professor Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar....
DAAS Zora Neale Hurston Lecture with Gloria House
"400 Years: A People's Pursuit of Justice."
Gloria House is a poet, educator, activist and 2019's Kresge Eminent Artist, an award reserved for those who've made distinguished...
AMAS Film Screening: "Muslimah's Guide to Marriage"
Professor Amina Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar
Muslimah Muhammad, a twenty-something African-American orthodox Muslim Woman who lives in Inglewood, CA, has seven days and fourteen hours...
“Mobilizing ‘Blackness’: From the Haitian Revolution to Now”
From Negritude, to the Anti-Apartheid movement, to Mizrahi Jewish claims to being Black Panthers, to Asian/African/Caribbean coalitions in...
“Mobilizing ‘Blackness’: From the Haitian Revolution to Now”
From Negritude, to the Anti-Apartheid movement, to Mizrahi Jewish claims to being Black Panthers, to Asian/African/Caribbean coalitions in...
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Angel David Nieves (San Diego State University)
Black DH (Digital Humanities) + Social Justice: The Soweto Uprisings, Stompie Seipei, and Apartheid’s Longue durée
Digital and interactive forms of scholarship challenge established practices in the Arts & Humanities. Audiovisual content, graphic...
Critical Conversations: Sexualities
Charlotte Karem Albrecht | GerShun Avilez | Sarah Ensor | SaraEllen Strongman | Valerie Traub (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
Horror & Enchantment
An Interdisciplinary Symposium
We are fascinated by what we fear. Misery appalls and magnetises. Creation means possibility but also beckons dissolution and catastrophe....
Critical Conversations: Ecologies
Omolade Adunbi | Petra Kuppers | Benjamin Mangrum | Peggy McCracken | Susan Scott Parrish (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
Huey Copeland Lecture
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for a public lecture by Huey Copeland (Northwestern). More information forthcoming.
