“History or Story? Remembering and Rewriting the Past”

Tuba Baykara (Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University)
Memorial Union & Online
@ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Karpat Talks   This talk examines how Yuva (2012; originally Home, a novel written in English by Toni Morrison and later translated into Turkish) and Cümbezin Kızı (2023, a novel originally written in Turkish by …

“Reading to Live: From Symbolic Act to the Activity of Form”

Jensen Suther (Harvard University)
Elvehjem Building L166
@ 5:30 pm

In Fredric Jameson’s The Political Unconscious, he develops an “allegorical” approach to Marxist criticism, according to which literary works are “coded” representations of class struggle. Jameson understands literary works as “symbolic acts” that respond to …

“Migration, Resilience, and Community Building in Times of Crisis”

Stephanie Canizales (UC Berkeley), Gina Pérez (Oberlin College), Gilberto Rosas (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Memorial Library 126 & Online
@ 4:00 pm

Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies Program Speaker Series: Building Communities of Care and Resilience in Times of Crisis This panel focuses on migration and the resiliency of immigrants and displaced citizens as they navigate legal terrains, …

“A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community”

Naomi Williams (Rutgers University), in conversation with Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)
Memorial Union Room 126
@ 4:00 pm

Naomi R Williams is associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and a historian of working people in the United States. They received their PhD from the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison …

“Savin, Sex, and Scandal: Re-thinking Abortion in Early America”

Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
@ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm

History of Science Medicine and Technology Colloquium Series Co-sponsored by History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Program and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics