DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Aph Ko
"Afro-Zoological Resistance: Animals and Anti-Racism"
Aph Ko is a decolonial theorist and founder of the website, Black Vegans Rock. In 2017, Aph co-authored her first book, Aphro-ism: Essays on...
DAAS Graduate Student Open House
Join us for lunch to learn more about...
High Stakes Culture
How Did We Become a Troll Nation and What Can Humanists Do About It?
The digital is cultural and it has gotten ugly. The tone of online discourse is increasingly one of complaining, mistrust, and disapproval....
How Black is American Film History?: A Scholarship and Pedagogy Mini-Conference
Guest speakers include Cara Caddoo (Indiana University), Miriam Petty (Northwestern University), and Nicholas Sammond (University of Toronto).
The event investigates the formation of the American film industry from its origins into the 1940s and beyond, paying special attention to...
Brent Hayes Edwards Lecture
Sweet Willie Rollbar’s Orientation: Film Screening and Lecture
Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia) will present his digital restoration, from the original 16mm reels, of the legendary short film Sweet Willie...
Criminalization and the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
U-M Student-Parent Family Art Studio
In Partnership with UMMA
U-M student-parents and their children (ages six and up) are invited to look, learn and create together during a special UMMA Family Art...
DAAS Africa Workshop with Severine Autesserre (Barnard College, Columbia University)
"Peace Possible: Building Peace During and After Mass Violence"
Séverine Autesserre is a Professor of Political Science, specializing in international relations and African studies, at Barnard College,...
Critical Conversations -- Memory
Naomi André | Sara Blair | Angela Dillard | Kristin Hass
Please join us for a conversation about Memory and Contemporary Studies...
DAAS Africa Workshop with Antonio Tomas (African Centre for Cities)
"Between Vernacular and International (style): Luanda, or Making of an African City
António Tomás is a senior lecturer at African Centre for Cities and the course convener of the newly-launched MPhil Southern Urbanism....
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Rhea Rahman (Brooklyn College)
"Muslim Humanitariansin Black,Brown and White: Racializing the White Savior Complex in Africa"
Graduate institute for Design, Ethnography and Social Thought (GIDEST_ program assistant RHEA RAHMAN is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at...
Critical Conversations -- Feminisms
Adela Pinch | Cathy Sanok | Xiomara Santamarina | Ruby Tapia
Please join us for a transhistorical conversation about Feminisms....
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Colin Dayan (Vanderbilt University)
"Forfeiture in a Non-human terrain"
Colin Dayan...
Containment and the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
Control and the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
Community and the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
Beyond the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
