A symposium exploring the heterogeneous field of transnational feminisms. Sponsored by UCHRI and the UCI History Department’s Works in Progress Series.
Saleem Badat will speak on the current state of the university in South Africa, with connections to the United States and elsewhere. Respondents will discuss these remarks with comments about the state of the university in Israel-Palestine and the United States.
UCHRI scholars Susan Coutin (UC Irvine) and Barbara Yngvesson (Hampshire College) will lead a discussion of two excerpts from their book project, Ethnographic Fictions.
In this talk, UCHRI visiting scholar Barbara Yngvesson (Hampshire College) and Susan Bibler Coutin (UC Irvine) present key themes in their book project, Ethnographic Fictions.
A symposium celebrating the research contributions of Saba Mahmood, Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
Panel discussion featuring Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian (Hebrew University), Robin Kelley (UCLA), and Sherene Razack (UCLA), moderated by Saree Makdisi (UCLA) and David Theo Goldberg (UCHRI)
Artwork: 50 Cent Piece (1983) by Jean-Michel Basquiat This Advanced Research Seminar is jointly hosted with the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). The Seminar will focus on the contemporary challenges to the University as a consequence both of technological innovations, political contestations, epistemological reconfigurations and the emergence of new knowledge formations and cognitive …
Documentary screening & discussion with Rokhaya Diallo Les Marches de la Liberté (Steps to Liberty) documents ten young Americans visiting France, the historical nation of human rights, to explore the issues of race and multiculturalism through a transatlantic lens. The film looks at the impact of the civil rights movement in each nation and what …
Neo Muyanga, South African musician and co-founder, PanAfrican Space Station It often comes as something of a surprise to many visitors to find that we, in South Africa, sang and danced throughout the decade of the 1980’s – a period many agree was one of the most violent phases in the struggle against the system …
The UC Humanities Research Institute, funded by a grant from the Henry R. Luce Foundation, embarked on a three-year research initiative exploring the complex cultural and political relations between diasporic religious communities and their self-identified homelands. The initiative is funded by the Luce Foundation’s Initiative on Religion and International Affairs, a grant program that seeks …