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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…

Alicia Garza talk postponed, new date TBA

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

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 lists his main research interests…

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…

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

NOTE: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21. Lorwin Lectureship Series 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…

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…