To take advantage of the extended winter intercession caused by COVID-19, RITM offered graduate and professional students funding for research colloquia that would meet during the month of January, in advance of the start of the spring term. Students with shared interests proposed common readings and guest lecturers and would meet in small groups of approximately five or more participants, privately, over Zoom. Students were able to include peers from multiple schools, departments, and campuses. RITM was able to fund sixteen colloquia as part of the inaugural program and is funding a second set of colloquia during the Summer 2021 break.
Below are the titles of the 2021 winter colloquia.
Reading Black Marxism
Black, Indigenous Queer South
Critical Fabulation and the Spatial Archive
Interdisciplinary Study of HIV/AIDS)
Asians in Latin America
Environmental Humanities)
Colonial Relations, Conditional Futures
Sylvia Wynter’s Reverberations
Racial Politics of the Human/Non-Human Divide
Immigration and Labor Central American Studies
Religion, Capitalism, and US Empire
Queer Latinx Doctoral Studies
Afronauts, Palestinians, Indiginauts
Silencing the Past
Transpacific Studies