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Spaces of Coexistence/Spaces of Differentiation: Conversations among Historians

Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120 University of Maryland, College Park

In this two-day workshop organized by the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the Department of History at the University of Maryland, faculty and graduate students will present on topics that range from real estate segregation in the US to the early modern Jewish ghettos. Their goal is to focus on the spatial organization of ethnic, racial, gender, sexual, cultural, and religious diversity. José Casanova, professor in the Departments of Sociology and Theology at Georgetown University, will give the keynote address titled “Jesuit Intercultural Encounters in Early Modern Global Modernization” on Thursday, April 27, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. […]

Public Art and Social Change: Murals, Graffiti, and Performance in DC and Beyond

Woods Hall, Room 0104 University of Maryland, College Park

What impact do murals, graffiti, and collective performances have on local neighborhoods? How does public art energize spaces and communities? Britta Anderson of UMD's Latin American Studies Center will moderate a discussion with Perry Frank, project director of DC Murals; Cory L. Stowers, graffiti artist and arts organizer in PG County; and Mallory Nezam, social practice civic artist and founding director of the guerrilla performance collective STL Improv in St. Louis.

Suspect Freedoms: A Conversation with Nancy Raquel Mirabal

Special Events Room (6137), McKeldin Library, University of Maryland 7649 Library Lane, College Park

Nancy Raquel Mirabal will discuss her new publication, Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823–1957 (New York University Press, 2017), which is the first book to explore Cuban racial and sexual politics in New York during the 19th and 20th centuries. Mirabal delves into a rich cache of primary sources, archival documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs, and oral histories to show how Cubans were authors of their own experiences, organizing movements, publishing texts, and establishing important political, revolutionary, and social clubs. Mirabal is director of the US Latina/o Studies Program at the University […]

Steven Zipperstein — “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History”

State Room, Elliott School of International Affairs 1957 E Street NW , Washington

Steven Zipperstein, the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University, will deliver the 2017 Fleischman Lecture. His talk will examine the reverberations of the infamous 1903 pogrom in Kishinev (Chisinau), the current capital of Moldova and then part of the Tsarist Empire, in modern Jewish history.

Mellon Sawyer Symposium: Thought and Action in the Anthropocene

New North Building, Georgetown University 37th and O Street NW, Washington

"Approaching the Anthropocene: Global Culture and Planetary Change" brings together scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, the sciences, law, and medicine in order to assess the role of humanistically oriented interdisciplinary thought in confronting the challenges posed by the “Anthropocene,” a term designating a new epoch in planetary history intended to recognize that human activity has left a permanent record in the strata of the earth and altered the course of biotic evolution. This one-day symposium will feature the following speakers: Paul Wapner (American University, School of International Service), Elisabeth Anker (George Washington, American Studies), Tita Chico (U Maryland, English), […]