What We (Still) Get Wrong about 9/11
Professor Zareena Grewal in Conversation with Matt Jacobson. Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” @ the NHFPL series
Webinar Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/95037511884
General Public
The Psychological and Political Backlash against Diversity
Professor Jennifer Richeson, the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology at Yale University, in Conversation with Matt Jacobson. Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” @ the NHFPL series
Webinar Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/99114650633
Reading and Discussion with Roberto Lovato
Roberto Lovato talks about his new, highly praised book Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (September 1, 2020) with Matt Jacobson. Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” @ the NHFPL series
Webinar Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/99423396490
Webinar: Defying Illegality: Organizing in and around Migrant Detention
Amidst ongoing debates about policing and mass incarceration, migrant detention centers have been focal points for mobilizations against the U.S. carceral regime. Through coordinated protest, testimonial acts, and hunger strikes, incarcerated migrants have drawn attention to systemic abuses in prisons, while defending their rights to belonging, family unification, and transnational mobility. Their actions revealed the ways that ICE used the COVID-19 pandemic to further repress prisoners.
What Did Marx Have to Say about Cooking Dinner? Social Reproduction Theory and the Labor Theory of Value
The Franke Lectures in the Humanities
Tithi Bhattacharya, Purdue University
Webinar with Andy Horowitz
We will relaunch our “Democracy in America” Tuesday evening at the New Haven Free Public Library series as a new monthly Webinar. Our first event will be on Tuesday September 22 from 7:00-8:00. Matt Jacobson will be in conversation with Andy Horowitz, author of Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 (Harvard University Press, 2020).
Link to join the Webinar on Tuesday September 22 @ 7:00pm
https://yale.zoom.us/j/99250492980
Critical Encounters Series: Matthew Pratt Guterl "White Chocolate: Ariana Grande and Racial Passing in Late Capitalism"
Matthew Pratt Guterl is Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies and Chair of American Studies at Brown University. He is an award-winning historian of race and nation, and a scholar of African American, American, and World histories. His books include Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe (2014); Seeing Race in Modern America (2013); American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (2008) The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (2001). In 2010, he received the Mary C.
John Wargo: Global Food Challenges to Health and the Environment
John Wargo is the Tweedy-Ordway Professor of Environmental Health and Political Science at Yale University and the Chair of the Yale College Environmental Studies Major and Program. https://environment.yale.edu/profile/wargo/
Critical Encounters Series: Matthew Pratt Guterl, "White Chocolate: Ariana Grande and Racial Passing in Late Capitalism"
Matthew Pratt Guterl is Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies and Chair of American Studies at Brown University. He is an award-winning historian of race and nation, and a scholar of African American, American, and World histories. His books include Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe (2014); Seeing Race in Modern America (2013); American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (2008) The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (2001). In 2010, he received the Mary C.
POSTPONED: Chris Newfield: Does Post-Democracy Need Universities?
Chris Newfield, University of California at Santa Barbara
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/people/newfield-christopher
