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Visual Resistance: Demanding the Impossible

March 26-May 17, 2020, 5-7 PM, University YMCA. Cosponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies, the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, Unit One of Allen Hall, and University YMCA, this exhibition is part of the University Y’s Art

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Kim Compoc – “Mourning in Public: Filipina Poet-Activists in Hawai‘i and the Political Potential of Elegy”

Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 4 PM, Asian American Studies Conference Room Dr. Kim Compoc will be giving a talk on anti-imperialist politics from two Filipina activists in Hawai’i post 9/11. Sponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies, this event

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Jaskiran Dhillon – “Indigenous Resistance, Anti-Colonial Politics, and Global Environmental Justice”

Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 4 PM, Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium. Cosponsored by the American Indian Studies Program, the Department of Asian American Studies, and the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, this program will consider Indigenous people’s role in the

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Through the Repellent Fence: Film Screening and Artist Conversation

March 9, 2020, 5:30 PM, Krannert Art Museum and School of Art + Design, Room 331. Presented by the Department of American Indian Studies, Native American House, the School of Art + Design, and the School of Music, a screening

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Panel – Native North American Art Now

Thursday, March 5, 2020, 5:30 PM, Krannert Art Museum Auditorium. Featuring exhibiting artist Naomi Bebo (Menominee an Ho-Chunk Nations), artist Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe Nation), and curator Candice Hopkins (Tlingit Nation), this panel and discussion will be co-moderated by Jenny Davis

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Eddie Bonilla – “The Latinx/a/o Radical Tradition: Genealogies of Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Anti-Racism”

Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 3:30-5 PM, 1207 W. Oregon, Urbana, Room 133. Sponsored by the Department of Latina/Latino Studies, Dr. Eddie Bonilla will present his article manuscript at this workshop. The paper will be available to participants a week before

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Kandice Chuh and Gayatri Gopinath – “Unruly Aesthetics: A Dialogue”

Monday, Apr. 20, 2020, time and location TBD This panel on Asian American Aesthetics brings together Kandice Chuh (English, CUNY) and Gayatri Gopinath (Gender and Sexuality Studies, New York University). More information, including about Chuh’s and Gopinath’s current research, can

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Forum – “Race, Place, and the Politics of the 2020 Census”

Monday, Mar. 2, 2020, 4:00 PM, Levis Faculty Center, Rm. 210 In light of the Trump administration’s proposed citizenship question, the 2020 census promises to be a politicized undertaking in an already highly politicized environment. This forum brings together scholars

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Paul DeMain and Chef Pete Halfaday Demonstration and Discussion – “Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Cuisine.”

Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, 5-6:30 PM, Ikenberry Commons SDRP Multipurpose Room Paul DeMain, former special projects coordinator in the Great Lakes for the Intertribal Agriculture Council and award-winning Chef Pete Halfaday will discuss the history of food sovereignty, traditional harvesting

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Lindsey Stallones Marshall – “Saving History from the Cowboys: Public Memory, Education, and Indigenizing the Archives”

Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, 12-1 PM, Bruce Nesbitt African American Center What do U.S. history textbooks, the Plains Wars, and horse history have to do with Americans’ flawed public memory about Native history? Dr. Marshall will talk about her research

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