Food is inextricably linked to culture, trade, economics, sovereignty, and well-being. Good food should be a basic human right. Join this interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of scholarship and food […]
*Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, this event was moved from April to October. Some of the speakers, locations, and times listed below may be subject to change as plans for […]
Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. These experiences are often left out of ethnographers’ “tales from the field” and remain unaddressed within qualitative […]
This panel is presented in conjunction with the exhibitions Accumulate, Classify, Preserve, Display on the archive and work of artist Roberto Obregón at University Gallery and the Harn Museum of […]
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Dr. Kevin Meehan is professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange (University Press of […]
In preparation for the 2016 Olympics, the city of Rio de Janeiro targeted several of the low-income communities known as favelas for removal, leaving residents with few viable options for […]
Erin Anderson works for Al otro lado, an NGO that supports and provides legal advice to families separated by ICE. She will talk about how Al otro lado helps parents […]
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Dr. Oscar Mazzoleni (University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and currently Visiting Scholar at Columbia University) will focus on the border issues in right-wing populist strategies. Although this linkage is rarely considered […]
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Over the span of two weeks in the summer, Puerto Rico experienced a series of protests that ended up with the resignation of former Governor Ricardo Rosselló. The protests were […]
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Afrofuturism can be described as a politically-imaginative decolonial project that fuses fictions, fantasies, and folk traditions with technology to produce past-future narratives about being and belonging from a Black-centered framework […]