Talks and Lectures

POSTPONED: Rod Ferguson: The Heterodoxies of Black Contemporary Art: Carrie Mae Weems, 'The Hampton Project,' and the Tall Tale of Power

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.

Critical Encounters Series: Crystal Feimster “‘Plying Her Advocation’: Finding Clarinda Tackert Rasure (aka Julia Dean) in Civil War Archives”

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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RITM Distinguished Lecture | Ruth Wilson Gilmore: Meanwhile (Parts 1 & 2)

These lectures explore how a small group of organizers combined experience with theoretical insights to create an abolition geography that weakened California’s long-thickening carceral geography. What are some tasks organizers set for themselves? What kinds of social and spatial challenges arose? How did engagement with problems – including organizers’ political and rhetorical failures – encourage consciously renovated participation in rural and urban contexts?

RITM Distinguished Lecture | Ruth Wilson Gilmore: Meanwhile (Parts 1 & 2)

These lectures explore how a small group of organizers combined experience with theoretical insights to create an abolition geography that weakened California’s long-thickening carceral geography. What are some tasks organizers set for themselves? What kinds of social and spatial challenges arose? How did engagement with problems – including organizers’ political and rhetorical failures – encourage consciously renovated participation in rural and urban contexts?

POSTPONED- Public Humanities Library Talk - Mary Lui

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.

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