Humanities

The future of Holocaust memorialization

When contradiction is a real part of the world, error must be lived out to be fully understood.

Why are the qualities associated with good character — wisdom, courage, justice, moderation — no longer considered important in our hyper-cynical world?

In this talk, based on his bestselling book “How to Be an Antiracist” (2019), Ibram X. Kendi examines a widening circle of antiracist ideas.

How global ideas of gender are changing in the contemporary world and the ways in which “gender” can be understood as an artifact of the structures behind the modern Eurocentric worldview

In this talk, Dominic Thomas examines and decodes various forms of colonial representation to better understand how iconographic propaganda was instrumentalized to legitimize and enforce colonial rule.

Hakim Abderrezak discusses sea crossings and what he terms “the so-called ‘refugee crisis’” to interrogate the terminology individuals and scholars use to examine this human tragedy.

Lawrence Douglas takes a closer look at the US electoral system and its vulnerabilities.

Martin Puchner examines Rotwelsch, a language born of migration and survival.

How did a poor, queer African American, like Baldwin become one of the most celebrated spokespersons of his generation for African American culture and the Civil Rights movement?

In this talk, Laila Amine critically assesses American writer James Baldwin’s encounters with West Africans and North Africans to challenge longstanding presumptions.

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