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Leading the Arts Through a Pandemic: Music with Chair Stephen Tucker ★
YouTubeArtsTalk’s inaugural series Leading the Arts Through a Pandemic will wrap up with two episodes in the Music department. For episode seven, Dean Barker speaks with Chair Stephen Tucker regarding his experience growing up in Jamaica, training as a conductor, Outreach work with Santa Ana High School, and the dynamic landscape of the Music department.…
Ọkụ Extenders: Women, Sacrality, and Transformative Art ♥
ZoomỌkụ Extenders: Women, Sacrality, and Transformative Art March 18, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. Join via Zoom: https://scrippscollege.zoom.us/j/95717417598 Nkiru Nzegwu is SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at State University of New York at Binghamton. She is also Professor Extraordinarius in the School of Transdisciplinary Research…
The Black Index | The Dark Database: Facial Recognition and its “Failure” to Enroll ♥ ★
ZoomThursday, January 21, 2021 - 3:15pm to 4:30pm The Dark Database: Facial Recognition and its "Failure" to Enroll Dennis Delgado, artist, with Calvin John Smiley, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hunter College. Hosted by The Hunter College Art Galleries. https://vimeo.com/504982185
Amplify Womxn of UCI: Hearing Our Stories IV ♥ ★
ZoomAbout Amplify Womxn of UCI The Amplify series was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Erica Turley-De Villa and Tanya Zabalegui, two of our board members for A&PW envisioned a form of storytelling that would provide a space for womxn of UCI to be heard. As Erica and Tanya began sharing their idea with individuals across campus, the…
Anti-Blackness: Difficult Dialogues Series | “We Charge Genocide!” The Mental and Physical Tolls of Racial Battle Fatigue among Black People ♥ ✚
ZoomJoin the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences Office of Faculty Development and Diversity for Anti-Blackness: Difficult Dialogues Series "We Charge Genocide!" The Mental and Physical Tolls of Racial Battle Fatigue among Black People featuring William A. Smith, Professor and Department Chair, Education, Culture and Society, University of Utah Wednesday, March 31, 2021 12:00-1:30 p.m.…
The Suppliants Project ♥ ★
ZoomDramatic readings of scenes from Aeschylus' The Suppliants as a catalyst for powerful discussions about immigration and the refugee crisis. About this Event The Suppliants Project presents dramatic readings by acclaimed actors of scenes from Aeschylus’ play The Suppliants—an ancient tragedy about fifty female refugees who seek asylum in the ancient city of Argos, and…
Politics of Language Speaker Series, featuring Dr. Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison ♥ ★ ✚
ZoomJoin the Center for Excellence in Writing & Communication for the Spring quarter presentation of our Politics of Language Speaker Series, featuring Dr. Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison! Dr. Morrison’s talk will take place on Friday, April 16th from 10 am-11 am (Pacific Time). Registration for the event is required; access the Zoom registration at our Campus…
Shakespeare and Black Life: Actor Jeremie Harris in Conversation with Jehbreal Jackson ’20 ♥ ★
ZoomKirk Davis Jr. Public Shakespeare Lecture In this public conversation, Jeremie Harris will discuss his role as Claudio in New York Public Theatre’s 2019 production of Much Ado About Nothing, which featured an all-Black cast and was set in Atlanta during Stacy Abrams’ campaign for governor of Georgia. We will share clips from the production. Mr.…
AICRE + PHILOSOPHY ♥ ★
ZoomAICRE + PHILOSOPHY Rather than remain silent on race, Western philosophy has often situated African and Black life particularly as degraded, an exception, or outside life itself. What genealogies have enabled and continue this history? What genealogies, both within the academy and without, offer us tools for resistance? Aiming to cultivate vocabularies at precisely this…
1st Annual BMA Conference: Empowered to Lead, Equipped to Succeed ♥ ★
1st Annual BMA Conference: Empowered to Lead, Equipped to Succeed May 1, 2021 9:00-3:00 p.m. Join us for the first annual Merage School Black Management Association Conference. This year’s conference theme is Empowered to Lead, Equipped to Succeed. There will be four focused sessions to bring this theme to life. Hear from industry leaders making an…
Phantom Africa: A Discussion with Brent Hayes Edwards ♥ ★
Phantom Africa: A Discussion with Brent Hayes Edwards Date: Thursday, May 20, 2021 Time: TBA Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Jazz Studies and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. He will present his recent…