Thursday, March 3, 2022, 5:30 pm, Zoom. The second event of the “In Plain Sight: Reckoning with Anti-Asian Racism” series wherein erin Khuê Ninh (Department of Asian American Studies, UCSB) talks about the idea of the model minority and racial…
Friday – Saturday, May 6 – 7, 2022, Location TBD. Sponsored by the Unit for Criticism and Asian American Studies, this conference is part of a year-long series of lectures organized as a response to the increased prominence of US…
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 5:30 pm, Zoom. Cathy Park Hong, author most recently of Minor Feelings (2020), will give a public lecture moderated by Susan Koshy and Soo Ah Known. Register for the Zoom link here.
Friday – Saturday, March 25-26, 2022, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. Sponsored by the Unit for Criticism and many other campus organizations and departments, this conference brings together a number of major scholars to discuss art, colonialism, and the future of…
Date and Time TBD, Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL. Sponsored by the Unit for Criticism and as part of the Planetary Imaginaries conference, the current incarnation of Sun Ra’s jazz band–the Sun Ra Arkestra, led by Marshall Allen–will be performing a…
Friday, February 4, 2022, 3:30-5:00 pm, Zoom. Organized by Asian American Studies and the Unit for Criticism, this panel brings together Roderick Ferguson (Yale), Kēhaulani Kauanui (Wesleyan), Viet Thanh Nguyen (USC), and Alfonso Gonzales Toribio (UCR) to discuss race and racism in the…
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 – Tuesday, May 31, 2022, All Day, Spurlock Museum. Visit the Spurlock Museum and walk through this exhibit that explores the history of “blues dance” – popular dance practices from African American communities in the United…
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 – Thursday, July 7, 2022, All Day, Spurlock Museum. Visit this exhibit at the Spurlock Museum where certain quilt panels made in the 1980s and 1990s, from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, are being displayed.…
Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 7:30 pm, Zoom. Join the Spurlock Museum Book Club as they discuss Part 2 of Angels in America (“Perestroika”), set during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. This event will be held in conjunction with Sewn in…
Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 4:00 pm, Beckman Institute, Room 5602. Olufunmilayo I. Olapade (Medicine, Associate Dean for Global Health, Director of Clinical Cancer Genetics, University of Chicago) will be lecturing on the excessive rate of breast cancer in African American…