Special Events
Meaning and memories of the Manhattan Project in the Tewa World
Event Time: Thu, 04/28/2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmDmitri Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in History with a Designated Emphasis in Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is completing his dissertation, “Tewa Pueblos at the Dawn of Atomic Modernity,” which draws on family...
Your voice, my voice, our voice? Ainu Indigeneity in the 21st century
Event Time: Thu, 04/21/2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmDr. Kanako Uzawa is a Norwegian-based Ainu scholar, advocate, and artist. She is an affiliated researcher at the Research Faculty of Media and Communication at Hokkaido University and contributes to collaborative research and Ainu performing art...
Telling the Story of Pushout: Girls' and Boys' Struggles to Finish Secondary School in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Event Time: Wed, 04/20/2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmAbstract: “Dropout” is a label used around the world to systematically track educational progress of students, schools, and education systems. This label not only wrongly assumes that most youth leave school by choice, but it negatively...
Revisiting Black Sites of Speculation: A Case for Theorizing Black Childhood as a Subject in Black Adult Narratives
Event Time: Wed, 03/30/2022 - 12:00pmAbstract: Tammy C. Owens will discuss a chapter of her manuscript in progress. The chapter examines Harriet Jacobs’ slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Owens contends that the narrative is a key “...
The Sea is History: Social and Environmental Justice and the Black Radical Tradition
Event Time: Wed, 04/21/2021 - 5:00pmPresented by Roderick Ferguson, Professor of Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
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Memory, archives, and performance
Event Time: Thu, 03/11/2021 - 12:00pmPresented by Maria Veronica San Martin
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New York based Chilean artist María Verónica San Martín will present her ongoing projects which explore the impacts of history, memory, and...
Insurgent Voices: A Feminist Radio Program for Peace
Event Time: Fri, 12/11/2020 - 12:00pmAbstract: Insurgent Voices, a Colombian radio initiative, is one of many peacebuilding initiatives in Georgina Ortiz, a former FARC ex-guerrilla settlement camp currently in the process of rezoning into a town. It...
Film Screening: Tejiendo Autonomía (Weaving Autonomy)
Event Time: Wed, 09/23/2020 - 3:00pmFilm Screening and Discussion with Director Julián Cortés
Joined by: Ferley Rodriguez, President of the Fortuna de Mutata Cooperative, composed of FARC ex-combatants. (Spanish-English translation by ICGC scholar Michael Soto)...
Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: The Role of Outsiders in the Current Crisis
Event Time: Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:00pmTalk by Elizabeth Schmidt, Professor Emeritus of History, Loyola University, Maryland
To outsiders, the word “Africa” often conjures up images of a continent in crisis, riddled with war and corruption, imploding from disease and starvation...
Changing the Ethnographic Museum in South Africa and Germany
Event Time: Thu, 10/24/2019 - 3:30pm to 5:00pmTalk by Ciraj Rassool, Professor of History, University of the Western Cape
Abstract: Over the last 15 years since South Africa became a democracy, the museum category of the ‘ethnographic’ came under severe scrutiny as a...