Events

This annual event held in Winter and Spring brings together faculty and graduate student research across different fields and areas of study. This quarter, we're pleased to have Professor Sarah Kareem and Chelsea Oei Kern present their work, with Professor Anahid Nersessian as respondent. Sarah Kareem "Vexed: On Resistant Attachment" Chelsea Oei Kern "'The Loss...

Aimee Bahng, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, Pomona College Talk Title: “Feminist, Decolonial Materialisms and the Nuclear History of Settler Environmentalism” Talk Description While much scholarship on the rise of the nuclear age has focused on the concomitant rise of insecurities about body and environment under the duress of wartime, this talk crafts...

A Conversation with Louise Hornby and Dora Zhang (Berkeley).

Alison Bigelow, Assistant Professor, colonial Latin American literature, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia. Talk Title: Mining Language: Extractive Industries and Indigenous Knowledge Production in the Early Americas Talk Description: Between 1500 and 1820, three out of every four people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean were enslaved Africans. They arrived to a...

A Reading by Joy Harjo