2020-2021 Events

This is the event archive for AY20/21; all events were held under the budget constraints imposed as a result of COVID-19. Click on the event names below to learn more about events from this year.

Being Human in the Age of COVID-19

Black Lives Matter Reading Group


Colloquium Series

September 3, 2020: Position, Power, Autoethnography: An Antiracist Workshop

September 17, 2020: Teaching Through Trauma in the Age of COVID

October 1, 2020: The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South

October 8, 2020: Friends of Japan: African American Women’s Visions of Afro-Asian Solidarity

October 15, 2020: Street Art: The Reparative Labor of Commoning in Hungary

October 15, 2020: The Fall of Hong Kong: Comparative and Historical Perspectives on a Global City in Crisis

October 22, 2020: Data and University Life

October 29, 2020: Listening to Re/search: Reflexive Autoethnographic Methods

November 5, 2020: All Water Has A Perfect Memory: Video Temporalities of Chen Qiulin

November 12, 2020: There Will Be Blood Boys: Regenerative Medicine, Model Organisms and New Human Biologies

November 19, 2020: The Subaltern Can Swing: Tracing the Haitian Revolution’s Afterlives in New Orleans Jazz

January 28, 2021: Humanities Center feat. Mohammed Bamyeh, Lifeworlds of Islam: The Pragmatics of a Religion

February 4, 2021: Chronic Confusion: Refugee Health Networks and the Responsibility of Care

February 11, 2021: Colloquium: Readings in Racial Capitalism and Crisis

February 18, 2021: Colloquium: “Musical Biotechnics and Sonic Materialism in Turkish Medical Practice”

February 25, 2021: Colloquium: Divine Data: Miracles of Mary in Early Modern Germany

March 4, 2021: Colloquium: "An Unbecoming Story: Toni Morrison and the Black Aesthetic"

March 11, 2021: Colloquium: Feminized Labor, Sex Work and Precarity

March 18, 2021: Colloquium: "Augustine of Hippo on Non-Human Creation"

April 1, 2021: Colloquium: "Documenting Cement City: Collaboration and Invention in Narrative Podcasting"

April 8, 2021: Hustlers and Racial Capitalism in Crisis

April 15, 2021: Colloquium: "Spectacular Employment: U.S. Deaf Theatre and Cold War Vocational Rehabilitation, 1967-1977"