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Each Tuesday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm, the Asian American Cultural Center hosts a Food for Thought lecture, part of the OIIR's Lunch on Us series. Food for Thought is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian and Asian American community. Lunch is provided!
All community members, students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend these seminars and join the conversation about efforts to make our community and nation a healthier and more equitable place. There is no cost to attend, but registration is appreciated.
Consuelo Naranjo Orovio (History, Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid): "Redes de cultura: España y América Latina, 1900-1940”
Does Donald Trump Improve the Sociological Imagination?
Professor Michael D. Kennedy will lecture on three different approaches to the scope of imagination, principles of design, and visions of consequence in the articulation of transformative knowledge cultures.
A panel discussion with break out discussion sections. Everyone is invited! Pizza will be served. Speakers: Sarah Colomé, Director, Women’s Resources Center Lesley Wexler, Professor of Law Nidhi Singh, Psychology Major/ Social Work & Leadership Minor, Class of 2020 Kadin Henningsen, Department of English
Stefan Schlüter is undertaking a two-week speaking tour of 11 cities in the southeastern and midwestern regions of the United States. The goal of this project is to engage communities in smaller U.S. cities to examine German-Jewish themes, to openly discuss Germany today in the context of its history, and to provide opportunities to learn about contemporary Germany.
Former German diplomat Stefan Schlüter will visit Illinois as part of a national speaking tour. He will speak on various current issues in Germany, Europe, and in transatlantic relations, including the rise of anti-Semitism and populism, migration and refugee policy, and Jewish life in Germany. Bring a brown-bag lunch to Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 FLB) from noon to 1:30 p.m.
The spring 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee was an event that reached far beyond the boundaries of the U.S. as a nation state. The event catalyzed a transnational movement for American Indian sovereignty, and resulted in interaction between activists on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This talk maps out the relationships within this unlikely Transatlantic community.
A conversation with Professor Heather Curtis, Tufts University, about her new book, Holy Humanitarians (Harvard, 2018). By exploring the ways American Christians of earlier generations endeavored to relieve suffering, she uncovers the seeds of today’s heated debates about the practice of philanthropy, the politics of poverty relief, and the ethics of medicine.
Beth D. Benedix, professor of world literature, religious studies, and community engagement at DePauw University, is the author of Ghost Writer: A Story About Telling a Holocaust Story.
Each Tuesday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm, the Asian American Cultural Center hosts a Food for Thought lecture, part of the OIIR's Lunch on Us series. Food for Thought is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian and Asian American community. Lunch is provided!
“'It was like something I had never seen before': Black Gay Sexual Spaces and ‘Situations’ in the Age of AIDS” Marlon M. Bailey, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and the Distinguished Weinberg Fellow in the Department of African American Studies and the Programs in Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Northwestern.
A captivating entertainment for all ages, The Great Duel between Orlando and Rinaldo for the Beautiful Angelica’s Sake by the Italian theatre company Associazione Figli d’Arte Cuticchio. This is a rare opportunity to see a performance of the Sicilian Opera dei Pupi, led by master puppeteer Mimmo Cuticchio, one of the last heirs of this theater form, outside of Italy.
As sung by Judy Garland in the MGM film Meet Me in St Louis (1944), “The Trolley Song” is one of the world’s best-loved production numbers, yet close reading and documentary study are still surprisingly rare where numbers in Hollywood musicals are concerned, and this one is no exception to that general state of affairs.
Tianna S. Paschel is an assistant professor in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology, University of California–Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies.
Tianna S. Paschel is an assistant professor in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology, University of California–Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies.
The Research Spotlight Series explores the research process of scholars across disciplines by highlighting their scholarly works. Dr. Antoinette Burton, professor in the Department of History, will talk about her research process in writing her latest book, An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire: Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption.
