Humanities Institute (page 2)


April 8, 2016

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 […]

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January 29, 2016

Contemporary 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 […]

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Choreographing 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 […]

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January 26, 2016

Face 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 […]

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I 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 […]

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Contemporary 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 […]

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Choreographing 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 […]

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January 15, 2016

Art 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 […]

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We 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 […]

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Resistance 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 […]

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