Humanities Institute (page 2)
Feminist Emergencies: Imperial War and Gender Justice Movements from Palestine and Lebanon to Chicago and Detroit
This lecture explores the ways U.S.-led empire seeps into the lives and labor of feminist and queer activists of the Arab region and its diasporas. It focuses on the ways moments of intensive state violence, such as the Israeli bombing of Gaza and the U.S. government’s targeting of Palestinian American feminist Rasmea Odeh in 2014, […]
Read MoreContemporary Artistic/Cultural Production in an Era of Police States, Race Violence, and Corporate Globalization
All are welcome to join this discussion amongst students, faculty and community members, with renowned choreographer and activist, Ananya Chatterjea. How do we consider cultural creation in the context of the current political climate? What are concerns and issues in both North America and the Global South that inform and challenge the work?
Read MoreChoreographing Identity/Dancing Our Stories
In this workshop, participants will work through games and embodied exercises to create a sense of community and connection, and with improvised movement and text to create choreographies that share the stories of participants. This particular exploration will be based on the theme of healing at a time of violence.
Read MoreFace to Face: Radical Futures for Black and Indigenous Solidarity
This workshop and presentation will cover recent developments in Black internationalist organizing at the grassroots level in the Americas. Using primary sources*, and uplifting the voices of youth, women, and queer, trans, and gender non-conforming folks, the workshop will familiarize students with the international viewpoints at the heart of local efforts to strengthen Black and […]
Read MoreI Need IX: A Civil Rights Framework for Ending Gender-Based Violence
Students and activists are using Title IX to fight gender-based violence and create paths for justice and healing within a civil rights framework, beyond a criminal legal system that often harms (rather than works for) survivors. This workshop will explore the transformative nature of Title IX activism within anti-violence and reproductive justice movements — and […]
Read MoreContemporary Artistic/Cultural Production in an Era of Police States, Race Violence, and Corporate Globilzation
All are welcome to join this discussion among students, faculty and community members, with renowned choreographer and activist, Ananya Chatterjea. How do we consider cultural creation in the context of the current political climate? What are concerns and issues in both North America and the Global South that inform and challenge the work?
Read MoreChoreographing Identity/Dancing Our Stories
In this workshop, participants will work through games and embodied exercises to create a sense of community and connection, and with improvised movement and text to create choreographies that share the stories of participants. This particular exploration will be based on the theme of healing at a time of violence.
Read MoreArt to the Rescue: Cultural Agents Take You by Surprise
Building on the extraordinary intervention made in scholarly and civic life by Doris Sommer’s “The Work of Art in the World,” this presentation explores how the lost promise of the humanities is being realized by artists and activists in aggrieved communities in New Orleans, Houston and Los Angeles who are working with the few tools […]
Read MoreWe Are the Ones
Pandora L. Thomas will lead an interactive and multimedia presentation in which she will share stories and strategies for strengthening the link between Social and Environmental Justice that are rooted in all of our cultural traditions.
Read MoreResistance and Interventions: The Writer in Place
We’re going to think about place and community (or the lack of it). We’re going to write a bit about community, place and the role of the writer: You, young artist, young writer. Go anywhere you like. But know that a community was there before you—this land was not a magically unpeopled wilderness to be […]
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