In honor of Black History Month, the Watson Institute presents a night of spoken word and open mic night with local hip-hop artists Chachi Carvalho and Othannah Tomasina.

Students are invited to perform!

Chachi Carvalho is a multi-talented artist and educator who comes from a longRead More

Silvia Federici is a longtime feminist activist, teacher and writer.

In 1972 she was among the founders of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the Campaign for Wages For Housework in the US and abroad. She has also been active in the anti-globalization movement and the anti-Read More

Join the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI) for the final Faculty Brown Bag of the semester with NAISI-affiliated Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Eric Johnson.  After decades of skepticism, new data indicates that Indigenous stone constructions are an important feature of Native Northeastern cultural landscapeRead More

Join the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI) for the final Faculty Brown Bag of the semester with NAISI-affiliated Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Eric Johnson. This 90-minute total session will include Q&A, conversation, and an opportunity to “workshop” with Dr. Johnson. Lunch will be served!

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Join us for a book panel to discuss Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss by Juliet Hooker, Professor of Political Science at Brown University. The other panelist include Cristina Beltran (NYU), Kevin Quashie (Brown University) and Thomas Zimmer (Georgetown).

In this book, Juliet Hooker, a leading thinker on democracy and race, argues that the two mostRead More

In 1976 writer and activist June Jordan outlined a proposed novel titled “Okay Now!” beginning with the powerful statement: “We must learn to share the earth, while there is still time to try.” Written during a watershed moment in Black environmental consciousness in the early 1970s, the unpublished novel centers Black social and economic vulnerability within an analysis of the AmericanRead More

In this talk, J.T. Roane — building off of his short experimental film Plot and the experience of working with the organization Just Harvest and the Rappahannock Nation to plant a mutual aid garden in Tappahannock — reflects on the healing act of working the land together under the structural and discursive conditions of shared histories of violence. Calling for us to center the intimacy ofRead More

Join the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI) for the first Faculty Brown Bag of the semester with Mack Scott, Visiting Assistant Professor of Slavery and Justice. This talk will appraise the conditions that informed the presence of two Narragansett children at Harvard University a decade before JohnRead More