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Wither Cultural Studies? Dissent, Despair, and Pedagogy in Hong Kong

Wither Cultural Studies? Dissent, Despair, and Pedagogy in Hong Kong

In this seminar, Professor Stephen Chan reflected on recent experiences in civil disobedience, social antagonism, and political prosecution in Hong Kong and share his insights on the intellectual project of Cultural Studies. #Cultural Studies #Hong Kong #Pedagogy #Affect #Dissent #Future

African Delegates: Health and HIV/Aids Grassroots Initiatives Symposium

African Delegates: Health and HIV/Aids Grassroots Initiatives Symposium

This symposium brought together African delegates working on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Music, Culture and Indigenous Thought in Busoga, Uganda: Cultural Survival and Revival at Mpambo, the African Multiversity
Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) Triennial Conference

Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) Triennial Conference

This conference, on the theme “Literature For Our Times”, addressed the role and function of literature in the twenty-first century through keynote speeches, paper presentations, panel discussions and literary readings.

Glo/cal Citizenship, Music and Inclusive Education

Glo/cal Citizenship, Music and Inclusive Education

The Unruly Salon series shows the power of persons with disabilities to represent their own experiences as a valued part of humanity, humans, being together across borders of many kinds.

Innocent by Contamination: Queer World-Making, Ethnicity and Technicity in Samuel R. Delany’s in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

Innocent by Contamination: Queer World-Making, Ethnicity and Technicity in Samuel R. Delany’s in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

This talk by Dr. Thomas Foster, University of Washington, forms part of his current book project, which is focused on the exploration of cyberpunk convention by writers and artists of color and is tentatively entitled Ethnicity and Technicity: Race, Nature, and Culture in the Cyberpunk Archive.

Transnational Place-Making: Food, Justice, and Autonomy

Transnational Place-Making: Food, Justice, and Autonomy

Professor Devon G. Peña will discuss his collaborative research with the South Central Farmers Feeding Families, a grassroots organization that established the largest urban farm in the United States and is now involved in a regional campaign for food democracy.

The Misadventures of Critical Thinking

The Misadventures of Critical Thinking

Presentation by Dr. Jacques Rancière, Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Paris VIII.

International Women’s Day: Mothering Work and the Performance of Daily Life Care-giving

International Women’s Day: Mothering Work and the Performance of Daily Life Care-giving

The Unruly Salon series shows the power of persons with disabilities to represent their own experiences as a valued part of humanity, humans, being together across borders of many kinds.

Transforming the Face and Reception of Dis/ability

Transforming the Face and Reception of Dis/ability

The Unruly Salon consists of performances by scholars and/or artists with disabilities as knowledgeable, capable, and self-empowered actors, speaking back, staring back, performing out loud, joyfully and in community with all other peoples.