Greek pots, with their delicate shapes, lively scenes and varied contexts of use and deposition have enjoyed great popularity with ancient and modern viewers alike. They have also been scrutinized as documentation of gender roles, extent of literacy, social and economic status, and as media for political propaganda. Scholars have recently widened their research scope […]
Sara Johnson is professor of literature of the Americas at the University of California, San Diego. Her book, Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press, 2023), documents the work of Moreau de Saint-Méry, a late eighteenth-century Caribbean intellectual. The book combines traditional academic chapters and experimental forms in its use of […]
Sarah Dunne will give a talk called: "Beyond Bookselling: How Queer Bookstores Shaped the Gay Liberation Movement." On Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 6:00pm At Faulkner Gallery, SB Central Library
Dr. Premilla Nadasen, who will deliver the Hull Lecture in Women and Social Justice, will be speaking about her new book Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism in the McCune Conference Room.
Prof. Kristina Sessa, Department of History, The Ohio State University Thursday, 18 April 2024 at 4:00pm in HSSB 4080
What would a California without poverty look like? How would ending economic hardship advance freedom and well-being for all? This is a prospect that has captured the imaginations of activists, reformers, and everyday people for decades, ever since Upton Sinclair made it the centerpiece of his near successful gubernatorial campaign in 1934. Today, it animates […]
For more than 200 years, Americans have argued about whether freed slaves should be compensated for the time and livelihood taken from them. These debates intensified after the Civil War and have once again entered our public discourse. History Professor Giuliana Perrone will put these debates in context and give listeners some sense of their […]
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz will give a talk called: "Women and Revolution: War, Violence, and Family Separations Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands." On April 24 at 5:30pm At Alhecama Theater, 215 E. Canon Perdido
Evan Andersson will present this year's Van Gelderen Lecture, "'Protect the One Who Carries You': Amulets and Daily Life in Roman Egypt" On Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 5:00pm In the McCune Room, HSSB 6020
Prof. Susan Burch will speak about her latest book, which has recently received the National Women’s Studies Association Alison Piepmeier Book Prize, and the Disability History Association’s Outstanding Book of 2022, Committed: Native Families, Institutionalization, and Remembering (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) The book centers on peoples’ lived experiences inside and outside the Canton Asylum, […]
