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Directed by: Julie Dash
1991 | USA | 112 minutes
| Screening and Panel Discussion | Friday, May 12, 2017, 7pm |
| Matinee | Saturday, May 13, 2017, 3pm |
Join us after the Friday evening screening for a panel discussion about the film with Dr. Jayna Brown, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies; Paulette Brown-Hinds, Editor-in-Chief of IE Voice. Moderated by Dr. Derek Burrill, Associate […]
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Partnership
Sharon Traweek is associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies and History at UCLA and author of Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists. She conducts multi-sited ethnographic research on knowledge making practices and the infrastructures in which they are embedded. Her work examines discursive formations [including narrative strategies], their transnational circulations, […]
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This presentation challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free–as something essential, cultural or biological, that individuals discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural construction of much beyond sex conditions the erotic.
The paper makes this argument in relation to the centuries-old European conversation about […]
Find out moreAudra Mitchell holds the CIGI Chair in Global Governance and Ethics at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, located on the lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe and Attawandaron peoples (Waterloo, Canada). She is a founding member of the Creatures’ Collective, an international group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, knowledge keepers, activists and artists concerned with […]
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The Global 19th Century Workshop at UCR is pleased to present a talk by Gretchen Schultz, Professor of French Studies at Brown University.
Abstract:
During the turbulent early 3rd Republic, a battle between wine and spirits served as proxy in the battle for a besieged French identity. As France recovered from the humiliating loss suffered in war […]
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Diverging Reform Pathways under Federalism
Across much of the world, higher education has experienced rapid expansion and structural changes. Yet, countries’ patterns of institutional change have varied significantly, with far-reaching consequences for the distribution of life chances across societies. This article explores an important causal pathway shaping contrasting national outcomes by focusing on the influence of […]
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Indigenous Popular Music on Broadcast and Online Radio
A Conversation with Dr. Faye Ginsburg and Dr. Liz Przybylski
Dr. Faye Ginsburg, Professor, New York University
Research specialties: Social anthropology; ethnographic film; ethnography of media; indigenous media; social movements in the United States; Disability
Liz Przybylski, Assistant Professor, UCR
Specializes in Indigenous hip hop practices in Canada and the […]
Cristina T. Bejarano is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UCR. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, where she specialized in the Anthropology of Science and Technology Studies. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Academies of Sciences Ford Foundation.
The STS Methods series […]
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Requiem for the American Dream is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky—widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive—on the defining characteristic of our time: the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few.
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President Barack Obama began his presidency with pledges of “hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.” Despite many successes, however, the unity he promised has eluded him. As Obama’s presidency draws to an end, with the election of Donald Trump, America is painfully divided.
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