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Raka Ray: Acker-Morgen lecture to be rescheduled

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NOTE: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.

 “Masculinity and Capitalism: A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of a Foundational Relationship” Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley

From the UC-Berkeley website: Raka Ray is a professor of sociology and South and Southeast Asia Studies and the dean of the Division of Social Sciences […]

Alicia Garza talk postponed, new date TBA

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Note: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.

Alicia Garza

“Alicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer, writer, public speaker and freedom dreamer who is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United […]

Postponed: Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Queer Studies Lecture

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Note: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.

Queer Studies Lecture

“Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance”

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan 

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes lists his main research interests as queer/LGBT Hispanic Caribbean (Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican) studies, U.S. Latina/o, and Latin American literary, […]

Postponed: John Collins, “Recent Crises in Representation and Racialized Mediation”

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NOTE: This talk will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.

Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium

John Collins, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Queens College & the CUNY Graduate Center

Since the mid-1990s, John Collins has conducted ethnographic research on UNESCO world heritage sites, urban restoration programs, and their relationships to national histories and racial politics in Brazil. This gave rise […]

Postponed: Christina Sharpe, “Black. Still. Life.”

NOTE: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.

Lorwin Lectureship Series

Christina Sharpe

Christina Sharpe, one of the most important contemporary scholars in Black Diaspora Thought and Cultures, is professor of humanities at York University.

From the York University website: “Sharpe’s research in Black visual and performance arts, Black literatures and cultures, Black feminist theories and […]

Kate Mondloch named interim dean and vice provost of the Graduate School

October 31, 2019—Professor and CSWS faculty affiliate Kate Mondloch of the UO College of Design has been named interim dean and vice provost of the Graduate School. Currently, Mondloch is head of the College of Design’s history of art and architecture department. She has been at the UO since 2005.

Kate Mondloch

Provost and […]