Past Events

NAISI Faculty Brown Bag: Eric Johnson

Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative
, Petteruti Lounge

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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Wampum Factories and Munsee Stonework: Archaeological Engagements with Indigenous History in New Jersey

Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative
, Petteruti Lounge

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 talk summarizes Dr. Eric Johnson’s work as an archaeologist in what is today northern New Jersey. Wampum is well known for its place in Native Northeastern culture, spiritualityRead More

Democracy Project Book Panel, Juliet Hooker’s forthcoming book, Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss with: Cristina Beltran Thomas Zimmer Kevin Quashie

Democracy Project

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

Democracy Project Book Series Panel, Juliet Hooker, Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss with: Cristina Beltran (NYU), Thomas Zimmer (Georgetown), and Kevin Quashie (Brown)

Democracy Project
, 155, Joukowsky Forum

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

Transpacific Histories in the Age of the U.S. “Pivot to Asia:” A Book Talk with Chris Suh ’10

Department of History
, Petteruti Lounge

This event is part of the Department of History’s Diversifying Historical Epistemologies Lecture Series

Join the Department of History for a presentation by Chris Suh ’10, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Emory University on his latest bookRead More

Workshop • J.T. Roane, “Terraforming ‘mississippi-america’: On June Jordan’s Ecological Thought”

Cogut Institute for the Humanities
, 401

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

Lecture • J.T. Roane, “The Practical Prophet: On June Jordan’s Intellectual Thought and Political Vision”

Cogut Institute for the Humanities
, 305

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

Momentum Art Exhibit and Open House

CSREA - Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America

Join CSREA for a Family Weekend Open House celebrating this year’s Imagining Social Justice Art Exhibit, Momentum. All are welcome.

The exhibit encompasses a wide spectrum of works from the abstract to the figurative, from the conceptual to the concrete. This multimedia collection conveys a sense of forward movement while exploring the instances of deceleration and evenRead More

Democracy Project Event, Melissa Harris-Perry (Wake Forest) “Flags, Stairs, and Folding Chairs: Marginalization and Strategies of Resistance in Higher Education”

Democracy Project
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“Flags, Stairs, and Folding Chairs: Marginalization and Strategies of Resistance in Higher Education”
Addressing the symbolic and material position of higher education institutions in American politics, Professor Harris-Perry will discuss how marginalized individuals and communities deploy multiple strategies of survival and resistance on and off campus.Read More

NAISI Faculty Brown Bag: Mack Scott

Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative
, Petteruti Lounge

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

Mack Scott is aRead More

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