"'Existence is Resistance': Carceral Capitalism in/and Palestine."
Event Time: Wed, 03/13/2019 - 6:00pmPresented by: Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
Abstract: "In this lecture I examine the production of mobility obstacles and restrictions in Palestine through the linked frames of disaster and carceral capitalism, highlighting the...
Click here to read moreIndigenous Women Have Always Been Leaders
Event Time: Fri, 03/08/2019 - 8:30am“Native women have been leading our communities since time immemorial,” Peggy Flanagan, Lt Governor of Minnesota, the nation's highest ranking Indigenous woman in executive office.
Every year on March 8 (International Women...
Click here to read moreAfro|50 Black Studies and Protest at the U of M and Beyond
Event Time: Mon, 02/25/2019 - 9:00amJoin the Department of African American & African Studies (AA&AS) in celebrating its 50th anniversary, AFRO|50 Black Studies and Protest at the University of Minnesota and Beyond. We will kick-off this year-long series of teach-ins...
Click here to read moreIs Democracy in Crisis? A Teach-In on Fascism and Racism
Event Time: Thu, 02/07/2019 - 3:30pm Click here to read moreItinerant Passage: Sexuality, Slavery, Historiography
Event Time: Fri, 01/25/2019 - 1:30pmThis talk engages a mislaid history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India to raise three vulgar questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within histories of sexuality that are themselves routinely displaced?...
Click here to read moreOron Catts at UMN
Event Time: Tue, 11/27/2018 - 7:00pm Click here to read moreRIGS Symposium on Reparations, Repatriation, and Redress
Event Time: Thu, 11/01/2018 - 9:15am to 5:00pm Click here to read moreVoices for Environmental Justice Symposium
Event Time: Wed, 10/17/2018 - 5:00pmJoin for an evening filled with presentations, nourishing food, and opportunities to connect with the local environmental justice movement. In cooperation to build momentum for an EJ minor at UMNTC.
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Click here to read moreDemocracy, Equality, and Care: The Core Connections Symposium
Event Time: Thu, 10/11/2018 - 4:00pm Click here to read more"Migration across Global Regimes of Childhood" Symposium
Event Time: Fri, 09/21/2018 - 12:00pmThis symposium, meant to highlight the intersections of different (im)migrant community histories, will focus on the historical migration of children, as its central theme, and take place at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities on September...
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