Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a joint Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and African American Studies. Her dissertation tells the performance histories of several diasporic figures whose lives and public personas engage with U.S.
The Conversation (1974), Talkback with Michael Denning, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies and English and Chair of American Studies
Tracey Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory
https://law.yale.edu/tracey-l-meares
John Wargo is the Tweedy-Ordway Professor of Environmental Health and Political Science at Yale University and the Chair of the Yale College Environmental Studies Major and Program. https://environment.yale.edu/profile/wargo/
with Emily Greenwood, Professor of Classics and African-American Studies and Chair of the Department of Classics
https://classics.yale.edu/people/emily-greenwood
Part of the “Pedagogy Lunch and Talk for Graduate Students” Series
Talk back with Stephanie Allain, Homegrown Films
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE. MORE INFORMATION TO COME.
Rod Ferguson is a Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of American Studies. Ferguson’s talk is based on a manuscript-in-progress that analyzes how contemporary Black art and writings from the Black radical tradition converse with one another in their assessments of the ravages of racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.
Khalil Johnson is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University
https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/kajohnson01/profile.html
Crystal Feimster is Associate Professor of African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University. Feimster’s academic focus is racial and sexual violence; currently, she is completing a project on rape during the American Civil War. Her book, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, focuses on two women journalists: Ida B. Wells, who campaigned against lynching, and Rebecca Latimer Felton, who urged white men to prove their manhood by lynching black men accused of raping white women.
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Professor Mary Lui’s lecture at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, originally scheduled for this evening, has been POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER. An alternate date and time will be announced in the coming weeks.
“Mr. Saund Goes to Washington” This talk discusses the historic 1956 election of Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, the first Asian American elected to the U.S. Congress. Mary Lui will discuss the political, cultural, and social significance of Saund’s campaign and victory in the context of the 1950s Cold War.
