West Africa in Tumultuous Times: Light from Its Golden Age
Taylor Hall 102 Main Campus Dr, Arlington, NYIf Only You Knew…
ZoomBeyond the Burden of Elegy
Rockefeller Hall 200Lawrence Jackson Poster Lawrence Jackson is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University. He has recently published Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland Baltimore (Gray Wolf Press, 2023), a memoir about his search for housing in the city of Baltimore as a single Black male parent. He will deliver a …
Unmapping the Gaza Strip
Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-On-Hudson, NYNew York State Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2024
FDR Library 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde ParkJoin us Thursday, February 29th at 6pm at the FDR Library & Museum for a panel discussion and viewing of the inspiring film "New York State Celebrates the Life and Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." Our Commission on Human Rights is hosting this free event in partnership with the NYS Division of Human Rights …
Memory, Resistance and Colonial Hierarchies of Belonging Across the Atlantic
Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-On-Hudson, NYThis one-day hybrid symposium will explore how various groups have politically and historically advocated for justice by drawing parallels of remembrance against forgetting across different cultures, spaces, languages, bodies and times. By realizing parallels across multiple geopolitical histories of trans and cis migrant activists, feminists, workers, Europeans of color, Sinti and Roma populations and refugees we want …
The Cost of Borders
Rockefeller Hall 200This lecture by Dr. Heba Gowayed will explore the marketplace between migrants, smugglers, and states. At borders, multimillion-dollar, state-sponsored industries of carceral and military technologies confront and contain people pursuing better tomorrows. In The Cost of Borders, Gowayed unravels this confrontation, arguing that borders, rather than static markers of sovereign territory, are dynamic marketplaces comprised of …
Livable Futures, a Community Action Workshop
Library Class of 1951 Reading RoomJoin a unique workshop on Palestine/Israel where presenters Tarek Maassarani, Rawan Odeh and Eran Nissan will introduce us to AI technology to help build consensus around actions we can take together at a local level on campus, in the Hudson Valley, and in Congress on Friday, April 5, from 12:00-1:30pm. The outcome is dependent on getting a wide diversity of participants with a range of …