Please join the Department of History on September 30th from 3:00-5:00 PM in Park 532 for their first speaker of the semester. Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Prof. Robin Mitchell. Prof. Mitchell will give a talk titled, "Methods and Madness: A Historian’s Search for the (In)Visible in the Archives." This is a hybrid event with options to […]
Aja Couchois Duncan is a poet and translator who works in hybrid genres within Native American studies, ecopoetics, and LGBTQIA studies. During this Zoom event, she will be reading from her new book Vestigial, which tracks a poetic narrative across multiple chronologies and scales--from the personal to the geologic. Duncan is a social justice […]
Roberley Bell is inspired by nature and time. Her practice draws on the world around her, in particular the scrutiny of nature and the built environment. Alongside her sculpture practice, Bell has developed a practice of walking moving outside the studio to investigate place in real time. Bell is the recipient of numerous fellowships including awards […]
Michele Washington is a NYC-based designer. She applies Design Thinking and User-Centered Interaction Design solutions to address complex issues which deliver meaningful solutions and solve problems that are culturally relevant. Recent projects include mobile publishing platforms and web-based integration, content strategy and curating popups. She has worked with Coforma, A Long Walk Home, City as Living Lab, the […]
Please join the Department of Music for a guest lecture by Jonathan De Souza. De Souza, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Western Ontario, will present a talk titled "Embodiment in Musical Ensembles" as part of the new Baird Lecture Series. De Souza's most recent book Music at Hand explored questions of musical […]
Please join us for Gina Athena Ulysse’s bold and timely performance, #BlackLiberationMashup. Free and open to the public. #BlackLiberationMashUp” remixes excerpts from texts by activists, academics and artists on questions of liberation in the Black diaspora spanning over two centuries. This rasanblaj includes M. Jacqui Alexander, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Suzanne Césaire, Amil Cabral, Antenor […]
Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891), the famous historian and biblical exegete, penned his commentary to the Song of Songs in 1871 to counter rising antisemitism fueled by racialized fantasies of Jewish gender and sexuality. Graetz contested antisemitic tropes of Jewish manhood and womanhood by reconfiguring […]
Tony Bluestone (b. Englewood, New Jersey) received an MFA from Hunter college and has participated in residencies including The Shandanken Project, The Basil Alakazi Residency in Detroit, DNA Residency in Provincetown and The Prattsville Art Center. She has had solo shows at Freight & Volume Gallery, Elaine L Jacob gallery at Wayne State University in […]
Please join the Department of Indigenous Studies for a research talk by Waylon Wilson, Skarù:rę (Tuscarora) Nation, Deer clan and Ph.D. Candidate in Performing & Media Arts at Cornell University. Designing Anti-Colonial Video Game Culture Can “Critical Play” make an anti-colonial intervention in game play? The interactive subjectivity of the gamer in 21st […]
The Geography Department will welcome Dr. Julie Silva, University of Maryland, College Park, on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at 10:00 am in 170 Academic Center (formerly 170 Fillmore). Research Projects Past, Present and Future In the first section of the talk, Dr. Silva will introduce her work on economic globalization, trade, and development. She has worked on these issues for over 15 […]
