Memory, Resistance and Colonial Hierarchies of Belonging Across the Atlantic

This 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 to generate interdisciplinary discussions on the uses of memory as resistance. We invite various artistic, academic and activist perspectives to provide new perspectives that broaden the clusters of Memory, Resistance and Colonial Hierarchies of Belonging. While our focus is on Germany, we welcome contributions from other contexts that comparatively address how Western colonial, imperial, transnational, and transatlantic memories are tied and translated to other regions and contexts.

New York State Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2024

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Join 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 Hudson Valley Hate & Bias Regional Council, Dutchess County African-American Clergy Association,  and the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County and they will focus on the four pillars of philosophy that Dr. King believed were essential to achieving social justice and equality: Nonviolence, Beloved Community, Justice and Hope. 

Registration is required and found online.

Beyond the Burden of Elegy

Lawrence 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 lecture on the competing narrative strategies that have shaped his memoir writing and other developments in Black literary history.

For The Many’s Vassar Student Meeting (in person)

Vassar Student Meeting organized by For The ManyWe’re building a grassroots movement of everyday people to fight for laws and win elections to transform New York so it works for all of us.

Join us for our first Vassar student meeting on campus for students interested in social justice work. We’ll be doing an organizing 1-1 political education session and pizza will be served! learn about our work and how we organize to win: 🏡 housing 🏥 healthcare ❤️ immigration & criminal justice 🌎 climate justice

This event will be in person at Vassar College. We will meet in Rocky 307. Whether you’re a long time member or a newcomer, we’re excited to see you there