Registration required. Safia Aidid is an interdisciplinary historian of modern Africa and Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the African Studies Centre at University of Toronto. She holds a PhD from Harvard University. Her research addresses anticolonial nationalism...
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In this workshop, attendees will learn about ACLS grant and fellowship programs, the application and review process, and eligibility considerations. A detailed overview of funding opportunities will be followed by an in-depth workshop, with advice for strengthening proposals and avoiding...
Registration recommended.We humanists are hoping for, and many of us are fighting for, a new day in the United States when the production and circulation of knowledge are understood as keystones of democracy and of human thriving – and thus...
For four decades, critic and experimental filmmaker Fred Camper's most ambitious work, SN (1976-84), has been unviewable. Recently restored by the Chicago Film Society, and following its debut at this year's New York Film Festival, SN will be shown here at UW on a...
Drawing on Eric Hobsbawm's claim that “the imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people,” this talk explores the power of sports teams. Using examples from post-apartheid South Africa and elsewhere, Jacobs asks: Can...
Renowned medieval manuscript scholar Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America and adjunct faculty at Simmons University's School of Library and Information Science, will present on medieval manuscripts preserved in collections throughout the Emerald City.Dr...
Renowned medieval manuscript scholar Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America and adjunct faculty at Simmons University's School of Library and Information Science, will lead a workshop on medieval manuscripts and manuscript fragments held by...
RSVP Now!Thursday, November 19th, 5:00-7:30pm at wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual HouseThe Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington hosts an annual literary and storytelling series. Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual...
In what ways might critical studies of media infrastructures expand our understanding of border regimes? How can analyses of the materialities, sites, practices, and labor of media infrastructures inform strategies of resistance to state surveillance? Join feminist media and science...