Spring classes begin
Instruction begins on Monday March 30. Monday, May 25: Memorial Day holiday Friday, June 5: Last day of instruction. June 6-12: Final exams. June 13-14: Commencement Final Exam Schedule hm […]
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The New (Old) Image Wars: Rethinking Image and Violence after Paris
The tragic events at Charlie Hebdo are a reminder of the continuing force of images incontemporary culture. Far from an isolated incident, tensions surrounding portrayals of the Prophet Muhammad continue […]
Abd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib’s Use of the Qurʾān in His Religious Letters: Surprises and Explanations
Wadad Kadi is the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Chicago. Sponsored by the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies and the Center […]
Racial and Reproductive Injustice: The Long History of Eugenic Sterilization in California
Alexandra Stern is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Culture, and History at the University of Michigan. This lecture series on the biopolitics of reproduction in the US and globally […]
“Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film”
Painstakingly assembled from interviews, photographs, documents, andartifacts, Three Minutes in Poland tells the rich, funny, harrowing, and surprisingly intertwined stories of these seven survivors and their Polish hometown. Originally a […]
Magnetic Insights into Cultural Heritage
Magnetic resonance is best known for its unique capabilities of imaging in diagnostic medicine and molecular structure determination in analytical chemistry. In the past two decades, the instrumentation has been […]
Dream Island and Sea Forest: The Afterlife of Tokyo’s Landfills
Japan has one of the most sophisticated waste managementsystems in the world and its household waste generation has been steadily declining since 2003. However, before the first national recycling Law […]
Global Governance Symposium
Please join us for this public event! The symposium features: Madeline Baer, SDSU: "Water Politics, Rights, and Governance" Jennifer Ramos, Loyola Marymount: "Global Security […]
Women, Gender, Sex: Social and Cultural Histories of the Long Nineteenth Century
AboutIn this conference, former students and colleagues of Patricia Cline Cohen explore the legacy of Cohen’s pioneering work in the cultural history of gender and sexuality. A founder of Women’s […]
American Population Politics in Global Perspective
This lecture series on the biopolitics of reproduction in the US and globally is hosted by the Black Studies Colloquium, with the co-sponsorship of the department of Feminist Studies, Chicana […]