Archaia Steering Committee Meeting - in Person with Breakfast
Monthly Archaia dteering committee meeting for committee members.
In-Person with food this month!
Graduate and Professional
Red Summer: Percival Everett’s American Landscapes
Over a period of two years, starting in 2019 when he began work on his novel The Trees, Percival Everett made a series of paintings to commemorate the century anniversary of the Red Summer, a summer that saw so many lynchings in the United States. In the conversation and slide presentation, Everett and Crystal Feimster discuss the ways he uses oil paints, watercolors, and photographs of his own paintings to create portraits of an American landscape that is ever-present, but often conveniently ignored.
Matthew Jacobson (Yale University), “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era”
Join us for a conversation with Matthew Jacobson (co-director of the Yale Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale) and Robin D. G. Kelley (the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles) on Professor Jacobson’s new book, “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era, A Cultural History” (University of California Press, 2023).
Inaugural Lecture in American Studies: Audra Simpson, “Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow”
Audra Simpson, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University
Author of the award-winning book Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States, Audra Simpson is a political anthropologist whose work is rooted within Indigenous polities in the US and Canada and crosses the fields of anthropology, Indigenous Studies, American and Canadian Studies, gender and sexuality studies as well as politics.
“Abolition: Where Do We Go From Here?”
A roundtable discussion with Robin D.G. Kelley, Derecka Purnell, and Garrett Felber
Moderated by Elizabeth Hinton
American Studies Interdisciplinary Methods Workshop
All students are invited to join American Studies graduate students as they share insights into their research, interdisciplinary methods, and the academic journeys that led to their graduate work.
Panelists Include: Ever Osorio Ruiz, Aanchal Saraf, Maria (MJ) Plascencia, and Candace Borders.
The discussion will cover a broad range of methods including:
visual & cultural studies
geography
Black feminist theory
oral history
ethnography
public humanities
"Becoming White," Virtual Talk by Professor Hazel Carby
Drawn from Imperial Intimacies, A Tale of Two Islands, the lecture will discuss how Professor Hazel Carby employed the insights of Stuart Hall into the nature of identities “as stories we tell ourselves,” and systems of recognition that we adopt, to trace the role of visual culture in creation of British imperial subjects and subjectivity.
Gender Series Conversation II: Debates Sobre Violencia de Género en América Latina
Moderated by Ever Osorio (Yale University) in Spanish with English translation.
Please register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xPMd2VV4SGiDKxNNE4NITw
The Teaching Archive
A roundtable discussion with Rachel Sagner Buurma (Swarthmore College) and Laura Heffernan (University of North Florida)—authors of The Teaching Archive—along with Caleb Smith (Yale).
Moderated by Alice Kaplan (Director of the Whitney Humanities Center).
Whitney Humanities Center
4:30 pm EST
Davarian Baldwin, “Building an Abolitionist University: Embedding Ivory Towers in their Chocolate Cities”
Davarian Baldwin a conversation co-sponsored by the Racial Capitalism and the Carceral State (RCCS) Working Group, Department of American Studies, YaleUndergraduate Prison Project(YUPP), Concerned and Organized Graduate Students(COGS) at Yale, and Yale Black Law Students Association (BLSA).
