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Jan 18-Jul 18

Counter/Narratives: (Re)Presenting Race & Ethnicity

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26January

Race and Human Trafficking: How Racial Inequality Impacts Human Trafficking

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26January

Race and Human Trafficking: How Racial Inequality Impacts Human Trafficking

Shima Rostami, Executive Director, Gateway Human Trafficking

Virtual | 12:30 PM

A 400+ year history of institutional racism in America has created economic and social inequities that heighten the likelihood that African Americans could become victims of human trafficking. This discussion will provide information about the vulnerabilities to trafficking members of black and brown communities and other minority groups might face in our society.

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27January

Mythologizing the West: A Conversation about American Identity, National Heroes, and Their Representations

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27January

Mythologizing the West: A Conversation about American Identity, National Heroes, and Their Representations

Alexis Carr is a second-year graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. She is pursuing a master’s degree in art history and archaeology.

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Amid the worldwide racial justice protests of 2020, demands for institutional change and accountability came swiftly and grew loud. One critique that arose from those demands concerned the ways in which American history is (mis)represented in museums. Nineteenth-century American history is complex, contentious and often contested. The period of American Westward expansion captured the imagination of American genre and landscape painters, including Missouri-based artists George Caleb Bingham and Charles Ferdinand Wimar. These artists mythologized white settler colonialism and contributed to the formation of an American national identity through the landscape. But the “progress” of Westward expansion and the white supremacist ideology which justified it came at a tremendous cost to the Indigenous people as stewards of the land and to their cultures. This talk will investigate how constructions of American identity and national memory are presented within the gallery space. The talk will also explore how 19th-century American landscape paintings inform or contribute to the current conversation about representation and diversity within art museums, as well as the current movement to reexamine America’s history and national heroes.

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28January

Transnational Knowledge: A symposium on the production and circulation of scholarship in translation

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28January

Transnational Knowledge: A symposium on the production and circulation of scholarship in translation

HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Romance Languages & Literatures, Latin American Studies, Film & Media Studies) and Ignacio Infante (Comparative Literature and Romance Languages & Literatures)

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Featuring “A Critique of Provincial Reason: Located Cosmopolitanisms and the Infrastructures of Theoretical Translation,” at 10:15 am with Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Romance Languages & Literatures, Latin American Studies, Film & Media Studies, Washington University) and “Translation and the Archive” at 2 pm with Ignacio Infante (Comparative Literature and Romance Languages & Literatures). How does knowledge change as it moves from one academic language culture to another? How “placed” are our intellectual concepts? In what ways does the dominance of English-language scholarship shape the production of knowledge around the world? Who is qualified to undertake a scholarly translation? This two-day, online symposium will address these and many other questions related to the location of scholarship in translation. School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas.

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28January

Sociology Colloquium Series: Angela S. García

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28January

Sports & Society Reading Group: A Discussion with Frank Guridy

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28January

EALC Lecture Series | Trans in Relation, Topos in Motion: Narrativity and the Power of Congruency

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28January

Stop. Rewind. Replay: Performance, Policing, and dismantling a Use of Force Paradigm

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01February

Reading by Visiting Hurst Professor francine j. harris

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