Gallery Talk with Michelle Morgan and Martha Wilette Lewis (resident curator at the Institute Library and past Artist-in-Residence at the Yale Quantum Institute)
(Gallery at the Whitney)
Professor Mary Lui’s lecture at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, originally scheduled for this evening, has been POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER. An alternate date and time will be announced in the coming weeks.
“Mr. Saund Goes to Washington” This talk discusses the historic 1956 election of Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, the first Asian American elected to the U.S. Congress. Mary Lui will discuss the political, cultural, and social significance of Saund’s campaign and victory in the context of the 1950s Cold War.
A conversation on the uses and limits of mapping and GIS for the exercise of sovereignty, land reclamation, economic development, education, and more.
Featuring:
Mark Palmer (Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma), University of Missouri
Laura Smith, Macalester College
Annita Hetoevehatohke’e Lucchesi (Southern Cheyenne), Sovereign Bodies Institute and University of Lethbridge
Friday, October 4, 2019 – 9:30am to 12noon
Loria Center, Room 351
190 York Street, New Haven CT
Democracy in America Here and Now series presents Patrisia Macias-Rojas (Prof. of Sociology, University of Illinois, Chicago): “From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post Civil Rights America”
