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Fall 2023 Calendar of Events

All events are 4:30-6:00 pm in Humanities Rm 1008 unless otherwise noted. Dates and times of HISB events are subject to change. Please continue to check our website for updates and detailed event information, registration for specific Zoom events, and how to log in.

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Date September 12	EventFaculty book lecture by Zebulon Vance Miletsky/AFS - Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle. Jennifer L. Anderson/HIS, Respondent.
Date September 20	EventArtist Shimon Attie gallery lecture on her show, "Shimon Attie: The View from Below". Sponsored by the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Pollock-Krasner House and HISB. At the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, 4:00-5:30 PM.
Date September 27	Event HISB Faculty Fellowship lecture by Joseph M. Pierce/HLL - “Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding Across the Hemispheric Americas”.
Date September 28	Event Sir Run Run Shaw lecture by Alexis Pauline Gumbs - “Blubber and Light: Decolonial Black Feminist Breathing”. Co-sponsored by the Center for Changing Systems of Power and HISB.
Date October 4	EventHISB Faculty Fellowship lecture by Michael Tondre/EGL - "The Invention of Oil: Imperial Science, Literary Form, and the Birth of Carbon Modernity".
Date October 5	EventFaculty book lecture by Stephanie Kelton/Professor of Economics and Public Policy - The Deficit Myth.
Date October 11	EventA Conversation with Angela Biancofiore, University of Montpellier - “Exploring Pedagogies of Transition in the Light of an Ecological Ethic of Care: A Five-branch Path”. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series.
Date October 17	EventA Conversation with film director Elia Moutamid -"Migration and Cinema". Sponsored by the D’Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, Africana Studies, English, and HISB, 1:00-2:30pm.
Date October 17	EventFilm screening of Maka (2023) with film director Elia Moutamid & writer Simone Brioni/EGL. Sponsored by the D’Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, Africana Studies, English, and HISB, 5:30pm.
Date October 19	EventBook lecture by Katherine E. Sugg - Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture: Allegories of White Masculinity in Crisis. Eva Cherniavsky/University of Washington, respondent.
Date October 20	EventSymposium on Neoliberal Capitalism and the Aesthetics of Self-Destruction, 10:00am-4:00pm.
Date October 23	EventLecture by Adrienne Munich/EGL Emeritus, Margaret Homans/Yale University and Joanna Marschner/ senior curator at the British Royal Palace, on their new Oxford University Press edition of Queen Victoria's Scotland travel diaries - "Queen Victoria and Prince Albert Invent Their Highlands. . .and Ours". Co-sponsored by EGL and HISB, 4:00-6:00pm.
Date October 24	EventLecture by Frank Gerits, Utrecht University - "The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966". Sponsored by History, Africana Studies, Institute for Globalization Studies, and HISB.
Date October 25	EventPanel discussion - Academic Freedom at Risk: The New College of Florida. Co-sponsored by Department of Africana Studies Department, History Department, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and HISB.
Date November 1	EventA Zoom Conversation with Thy Phu, University of Toronto -- “The Camera and the Afterlives of American Wars”. In this presentation, Phu discusses how photography “wages, experiences, and resolves” the violence of war and military occupation. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series, 2:30-3:50pm. Zoom registration required. Registration deadline October 31. Please click here to register.
Date November 2	EventPOSTPONED: Panel discussion - Ungendering Fashion: Discussions on the Intersection of Identity, Fashion, and Queer Community. Sponsored by WGSS & HISB. In-person and via Zoom. Zoom registration required for Zoom participantion.
Date November 8	EventA Zoom Conversation with J. Logan Smilges, University of British Columbia on his book, Crip Negativity. Co-sponsored by Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 3:00pm-4:30PM EST. Zoom registration required. Registration deadline November 7. Please click here to register.
Date November 8	EventHISB Faculty Fellowship lecture by Eric Lewis Beverley/HIS - "Making Urban Property: Land Regimes, Capitalism, and Global Connections in Hyderabad City".
Date November 14	EventFaculty book lecture by Katherine D. Johnston/EGL & PWR -- "Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twenty-first Century Literature". Toby Miller/Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Respondent. In-person and via Zoom. Registration required for Zoom participation. Registration deadline November 13. Please click here to register.
Date November 29	EventConversation with Catherine Chaput/Fordham University - “Racial capitalism has no contingency: rhetoric, Black Studies, and political economic change”. How do capitalism and anti-Blackness work in tandem to restrain changemakers? Part of the Pressing Matters" lecture series, 10:00-11:30am. Click here to read the article.
Date November 30	EventA conversation with writer Ubah Cristina Ali Farah on the recent translation of her book, Commander of the River. Sponsored by the D’Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, Africana Studies, English, and HISB, 1:00-2:30pm in Wang East Hall (Chapel) in the Wang Center.
Date November 30	EventFilm screening of Beyond the Frame (2023) with film director Simone Brioni/EGL and protaganist Ubah Cristina Ali Farah. Sponsored by the D’Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, Africana Studies, English, and HISB, 5:30pm, in 1006 Humanities.
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