Events

10Sep "Immigration Detention Inc: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants -- A Panel Discussion"Nancy Hiemstra and a panel of scholars discuss her new co-authored book which looks at the ways immigration detention generates income while...
16Sep Lecture by Michelle H.S. Ho/National University of Singapore -- "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies"Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Tokyo, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in cross dressing cafe-and-...
30Sep Faculty Research Lecture by Rita S. Nemazi/PWR and AFS -- "The Rooftop: A Culture Specific Feminine Space in Morocco - Fez, Marrakech, and Meknes"Rita S. Nezami continues her research on Moroccan women’s experiences on the flat rooftop in the medinas where they once spent time workin...
28Oct Lecture by Richard H. Tomczak/HIS -- "Workers of War & Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783"Richard H. Tomczak investigates an understudied form of mandatory labor, referred to as corvée, that was introduced by the French to Canada...
5Nov A Discussion with Kristina Lucenko/PWR - "Women Writing Race in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Civil Agents"In conversation with scholars, Kristina Lucenko will discuss her new book which shows how women writing in the early English Atlantic invoke...
13Nov HISB Faculty Fellows Lecture by Cristina Khan/WGSS - "Divine Dancers"This talk centers the subversion of whiteness, heteronormativity, and gendered beauty ideals by foregrounding Divine Dancers, a Black and Pu...