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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 […]

Eddie Glaude, Jr. — “The Project in American Pluralism: Roundtable Discussion on Diversity and Democracy”

Hodson Hall, Room 310, Homewood Campus, Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore

The Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University will host a roundtable discussion on diversity and democracy with Eddie Glaude, Jr., of Princeton University and faculty from the JHU Homewood campus and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). The event will be followed by a reception. Glaude is professor of religion and chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton. He is the author of In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America (2007) and Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America (2000). His latest book, Democracy in Black: How Race Still […]

Michael D. Gordin — “The Forgetting and Rediscovery of Soviet Machine Translation”

Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Intercultural Center (ICC), Room 662 37th and O Streets NW , Washington

Michael Gordin is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, where he specializes in the history of the modern physical sciences and Russian, European, and American history. He has co-edited several volumes and published articles on a variety of topics, such as the introduction of science into Russia in the early 18th century, the history of biological warfare in the late Soviet period, the relations between Russian literature and science, as well as a series of studies on the life and chemistry of Dmitrii I. Mendeleev, formulator of the periodic system of chemical elements. His most […]