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  • Thompson, Debra (2023-02-22)
    Dr. Debra Thompson is a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race, with teaching and research interests that focus on the relationships among race, the state and inequality in democratic societies. She is the ...
  • Koester, David (2023-02-22)
    Anthropologist, Dr. David Koester is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He has worked with communities of both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific and primarily, over the past 30 years, with ...
  • Leonard, Wesley Y. (2023-02-13)
    Language reclamation is a decolonial approach to Indigenous language revitalization, one that identifies and responds to the core causes of community language shift, and that at all stages is embedded in community needs, ...
  • Maynard, Robyn; Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake (2023-02-13)
    Rehearsals for Living is a revolutionary collaboration about the world we’re living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists. When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring ...
  • Kennedy, Emily Huddart (2023-02-02)
    Across dozens of countries, civil society is increasingly polarized over environmental protection, particularly over efforts to reduce greenhouse gasses to mitigate climate change. Study after study shows us that liberals ...
  • Royden, Leigh (2023-02-02)
    The Tibetan Plateau, arguably the most dramatic expression of continental collision to have occurred in the last 600 million years, is the result of the ongoing collision and convergence of the Indian sub-continent with ...
  • Blake, Robert (2023-02-02)
    Technology is a means of fostering language, and Dr. Robert Blake will outline key lessons learning from teaching languages during the pandemic and where the field of language teaching is headed now. His educational ...
  • Leigh, David (2023-02-02)
    According to the 2016 Chemistry Nobel Prize Committee, “We are at the dawn of a new industrial revolution of the twenty-first century, and the future will show how molecular machinery can become an integral part of our ...
  • Thieberger, Nicholas (2023-02-02)
    There are at least 7,000 languages in the world and a great deal of the knowledge that is reflected in these languages is at risk of being lost. While, in the past, this has been a colonial enterprise, only of benefit ...
  • Schumacher, Courtney (2023-02-02)
    The presentation will start with how a thunderstorm looks in 3-D using radar technology and lightning mapping arrays. We will then travel tens of thousands of years into the past using chemistry analysis of cave stalactites ...
  • Schumacher, Courtney (2023-02-02)
    Convective storms are highly intermittent and intense, making their occurrence and strength difficult to predict. This is especially true for climate models, which have grid resolutions much coarser (e.g., 100 km) than the ...
  • Dolmage, Jay (2022-10-12)
    In this interactive talk, we will collaborate to address the ableist attitudes, policies, and practices that are built into higher education. We will also interrogate the minimal and temporary means we have been given to ...
  • Walker, Connie (2022-10-11)
    Critically acclaimed Cree journalist from Okanese First Nation and one of the most important voices in podcasting today, Connie Walker will discuss the work behind her podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s (2022), the ...
  • Jérome, Vanessa (2022-04-28)
    Night of August 4, 1789, night of crystal 1938, "great night" of colonization, night of extraordinary meetings in assemblies, nights on call in various institutions ... political nights are materiality and metaphor. Space ...
  • Abbott, Stacey (2022-03-31)
    In this lecture I will discuss how the vampire emerged from the 19th Century folklore and literature and settled into 20th century cinema to become a significant and persistent filmic presence that continues to haunt our ...
  • Lamba, Rinku (2022-03-31)
    Articulations of religion on the Indian subcontinent have provided clusters of ideas about themes as varied as devotion, morality, tradition, hierarchies, disposition, action, feeling, persuasion, diversity and community. ...
  • Whitaker, Cord (2022-03-31)
    Scholarly opinions on the “Rood of Grace,” the moving and emoting crucifix featured at Boxley Abbey in Kent at the end of the Middle Ages, have wavered between the position that monks unscrupulously dupied a devoted but ...
  • Roach, Levi (2022-03-31)
    Few regions or periods in history can match medieval Europe for the sheer scale of documentary forgery. Whether it be in large bishoprics or small local abbeys, churchmen of the period were busy inventing the past on a ...
  • Cummings, James (2022-03-31)
    The editing of late-medieval plays involves making many individual decisions, but rather than making the editor’s job easier, digital technology often adds additional burdens, demanding the knowledge of encoding formats, ...
  • Leza, Christina (2022-03-31)
    In the United States, U.S. citizenship and a high degree of “Indian blood” are significant aspects of the mainstream schema for conceptualizing Native American or Indigenous identity. This talk addresses how the popular ...

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