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Global Labor Migration Workshop

Juan Ramon Jimenez Room, Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland 3972 Campus Drive, College Park

On April 20 & 21, the Center for Global Migration Studies at the University of Maryland will host the inaugural workshop of the Global Labor Migration Network. The Center's mission is to study migration through interdisciplinary collaborations and through a global framework. It is also committed to a model of engaged scholarship and pedagogy that seeks to illuminate contemporary social problems. The workshop will feature two days of panel discussions. The first day will conclude with a public talk given by Ruth Milkman (CUNY Graduate Center) titled “Precarity and Polarization: Global Migrants in the 21st-Century US Labor Market.” Thursday, April […]

Remembering Biafra Conference

Milken Institute School of Public Health 950 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington

George Washington University's “Remembering Biafra” conference (April 20–21) will bring together scholars, activists, and humanitarians to examine the global impact of the Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-70. Speakers will analyze the war in terms of its impact on US-Africa relations, its influence on the modern politics of humanitarianism, and the legacies of decolonization. With the 50th anniversary of the start of the war in June 2017, the conference will explore why this major African crisis has been so long forgotten, and what lessons might be learned from remembering Biafra today. The Conference is co-sponsored by George Washington University’s departments of Africana […]

Carolee Schneemann

Ring Auditorium, Hirshhorn Museum 7th Street and Independence Ave SW, Washington

Throughout her career, artist Carolee Schneemann has experimented with painting, photography, performance, and installation to transform the definition of art, especially in relation to discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. Characteristics of her practice range from researching outdated visual traditions to exploring her own body in relation to “the social body.” Schneemann is often both the maker and the object of her art, as in works such as Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions, a series of photographs currently on view in the exhibition Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection.

Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown — “Globalization and Its Future”

Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and NYU's first Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence, will address the current state of globalization and its future in a lecture at NYU Washington, DC. Brown served as British Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007, making him the longest-serving Chancellor in modern history. Brown's time as Chancellor was marked by major reform of Britain's monetary and fiscal policy and sustained investment in health, education, and overseas aid. As Prime Minister, his tenure coincided with the recent […]

Kevin Driscoll — “Dial-up: A Grassroots History of Social Media”

German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington

Kevin Driscoll is assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. His research explores popular culture, political communication, and networked personal computing, with special attention to mythology, folklore, and infrastructure. Some of his previous work explores everyday and emerging uses of social media such as live-tweeting, joking about politics, and spreading rumors. His dissertation traced the pre-history of social media through the dial-up bulletin board systems of the 1980s and 1990s. Currently, he is writing a technical and cultural history of the French Minitel system in collaboration with Julien Mailland from Indiana University. Please RSVP here. Refreshments will be served from 6 […]

Remembering Biafra Conference

Duques Hall, Room 151, George Washington University School of Business 2201 G Street NW , Washington

George Washington University’s “Remembering Biafra” conference (April 20–21) will bring together scholars, activists, and humanitarians to examine the global impact of the Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-70. Speakers will analyze the war in terms of its impact on US-Africa relations, its influence on the modern politics of humanitarianism, and the legacies of decolonization. With the 50th anniversary of the start of the war in June 2017, the conference will explore why this major African crisis has been so long forgotten, and what lessons might be learned from remembering Biafra today. The Conference is co-sponsored by George Washington University’s departments of Africana […]

Global Labor Migration Workshop

Juan Ramon Jimenez Room, Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland 3972 Campus Drive, College Park

On April 20 & 21, the Center for Global Migration Studies at the University of Maryland will host the inaugural workshop of the Global Labor Migration Network. The Center’s mission is to study migration through interdisciplinary collaborations and through a global framework. It is also committed to a model of engaged scholarship and pedagogy that seeks to illuminate contemporary social problems. Friday, April 21 9:00 am Session Three: Border Crossings: Circuits of Labor Migration Chair: Cindy Hahamovitch, Department of History, University of Georgia Helma Lutz, Department of Sociology, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, “Care as a Fictitious Commodity: Reflections on the Intersections of […]

DC Queer Studies Symposium with Cathy Cohen

Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall, University of Maryland 7751 Alumni Drive, College Park

The tenth annual DC Queer Studies Symposium is titled "'Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens': Twenty Years Later—A Celebration of the Scholarship of Cathy Cohen." At the close of the 20th century, Cathy Cohen insisted that “…a truly radical or transformative politics has not resulted from queer activism.” She instead offered ideas about coalitions organized in the name of the “nonnormative” and “marginal” and based in an intersectional analysis of power that demanded a move beyond an assimilative LGBT agenda. Twenty years after the publication of Cohen’s essay "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?," the relevance of […]