How do we reckon with histories of power, exclusion, and erasure in work with physical and digital archives? This panel explores decolonial approaches in book history and the digital humanities through discussions of projects focused on mapping South Asia’s Adivasi...
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Dr. Mohammad Rafi (UC Irvine)"Muslims in Germany: A Permanent Threat to German National Identity?"This paper traces how Islam has been construed as a threat to German national identity and its declared values. It explores how Muslims are perceived to be a danger...
“When an elder dies, a library burns.” This African proverb emphasizes the irreplaceable role of elders as guardians and transmitters of knowledge, culture, and wisdom. Black grandmothers, as living "libraries," carry and preserve vital stories and cultural inheritances—such as material possessions, traditions...
In her last work, the posthumously published Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt develops a phenomenology of the activities that make up mental life, specifically thinking and willing (the section on judging remained largely unwritten). In order to elucidate thinking...
Humankind has already established a firm and growing presence outside the boundaries of planet Earth. Moreover, it is likely that major actors are currently creating path dependencies that will determine the conditions of long-term future, often unknowingly and unintentionally. The...
The lecture proposes a new poetology of German Baroque Tragedy by placing it within the tradition of spiritual exercises and meditation that emerged in antiquity as an integral part of a philosophical paideia and then in early Christianity as it sought to...
The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping with Joseph Torigian
Please join us for a book talk with Joseph Torigian, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution and Associate Professor, School of International Service at American University. The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping Friday, May 30...
This event is free and open to the public.This talk discusses the unconventional forms of care that emerge out of Kurdish resistance inTurkey, where mothering becomes a powerful response against necropolitical state violence. By centeringthe stories of two Kurdish mothers...