Black Existentialism, Spring 2024
Hosted by: Shane Vogel, Chair of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Professor of English and African American Studies
March 28, 2024
"Locating Black Women's Friendship in the Archive: Life Writing, Cultural Criticism, and Performance Studies"
Dr. Soyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown University
Decolonizing Europe, Spring 2023
Hosted by: Professor Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration
March 8, 2023
"German Coloniality and Anti-Racism Paradigms in a New Europe"
Dr. Anna-Esther Younes, scholar of race critical theories, using psychoanalytic approaches and post-colonial theory
March 29, 2023
"White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route"
Dr. Piro Rexhepi, studies decoloniality, sexuality and Islam
April 6, 2023
"France and Whiteness: breaking with the collaboration of race"
Dr. Houria Bouteldja, studies decolonial feminism, racism, autonomy and political alliances
April 12, 2023
"Radicially Inclusive Archives – Intersectional Black European Studies Today"
Intersectional Black European Studies Project
April 19, 2023
"Colonially Bound | Immateriality Free: On the Expanded Distance Between Object and Image"
Dr. Eunsong Kim, centers critiques of colonialisms and racial capitalism and draws from critical digital studies, translation studies, critical theory and critical race & ethnic studies, Northeastern University
April 26, 2023
"Imagining Europe through racial ‘b/orders’ and struggles over migration"
Dr. Maurice Stierl, Professor of Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University
October 3, 2019
Virtual Violence: Trauma & Memory in Gina Kim’s “Dongducheun/Bloodless”
Grace Kungwon Hong, Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, UCLA
October 10, 2019
Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow
Audra Simpson, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
October 31, 2019
Operationalizing Racial Capitalism: Administrative Power and Ordinary Violence
Jodi Melamed, Associate Professor of English, Marquette University
November 14, 2019
A New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
November 21, 2019
Inefficient Feeling: Care as Revolutionary Praxis at the End of Society
Kalindi Vora, Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, UC Davis
