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Viral Exchanges: Hotspots, Spillovers, and the Reordering of Life, Lecture by Gregg Mitman
2021 HISTORY WRITER IN RESIDENCE PUBLIC LECTURE BY GREGG MITMAN The word “hotspot” can mean a place where fires flare, where novel viruses a...
Landfall: Conversation With Director Cecilia Aldarondo
A conversation with Landfall director Cecilia Aldarondo, with an introduction and moderation by Patricia Montoya. Through shard-like glimpse...
Young People Fighting For Climate Justice, A Conversation with Vanessa Nakate and Varshini Prakash
2021 James Baldwin Lecture Young people have transformed the climate and environmental movement. Youth of color and youth from the Global So...
Disaster Capitalism, Ecofascism, and Ecoauthoritarianism
The gravity of climate change and the environmental emergency demands not just attention but concerted action. But what form will that actio...
Environmental Policy In Historical Perspective: The 2020 Election Results & the Future of the Planet
Feinberg Series Panel Discussion with Bill McKibben, Robert Pollin, Thea Riofrancos & Eve Vogel, moderated by Ashwin Ravikumar with an intro...
History from Below: Extractivism, Geology, and Power
Feinberg Series Panel Discussion with Angélica Maria Bernal, Nigel Clark, Gregory Cushman, and Andrea Marston, moderated by Kiran Asher and...
Thom van Dooren: The World in a Shell
Feinberg Series lecture on the disappearing snails of Hawaii by Thom van Dooren. Thom van Dooren is a field philosopher, storyteller and Ass...
Mike Davis: California Burning
UMass Amherst Department of History Distinguished Annual Lecture and Feinberg Series Lecture by Mike Davis, moderated by Vijay Prasahd Calif...
Walidah Imarisha: "All Organizing is Science Fiction"
Educator, writer, public scholar and spoken word artist Walidah Imarisha explores the history of sci-fi and social change, sharing tools for...
Domestic Workers Building Dignity and Power, Past and Present
Domestic workers are drawing lessons from past movements to organize on a massive scale and build feminist economies. A panel conversation w...
21st Century Socialism: Venezuela's Communes in Historical Perspective, Feinberg Series
Venezuelan communes are radical experiments in grassroots democracy and economic production that attempt to “concretize utopia.” Atenea Jimé...
Imagining Community, Living in Community
An exploration of efforts to create intentional communities based on participants' visions of just and harmonious social relationships. Ofte...
State Violence and Revolution: Lessons from El Salvador
In the 1980s, Salvadoran revolutionaries fought to overthrow a U.S.-backed dictatorship and build popular democratic alternatives. Many peop...
Rev Dr William J Barber: Feinberg Series Keynote Address and Inaugural James Baldwin Lecture
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is president of Repairers of the Breach, national co-chair of the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign, and leader of a...
Reawakening the Black Radical Imagination: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Kali Akuno, Mary Hooks
A panel discussion with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (author of From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation and How We Get Free), Kali Akuno (Coop...
Jen Manion, "Historicizing the Carceral State: Race, Sex, and Power in Early America"
This lecture by Jen Manion (Amherst College) explores how the penitentiary system in early America exploited racist ideologies, gender norms...
Panel, "'Alien' Incarcerations: Migrants In Detention," UMass Feinberg Series, Nov 10, 2016
A panel discussion on the history and current realities of the migrant detention regime with David Hernández (Latina/o Studies, Mount Holyok...
Panel, "Resisting Police Violence in Springfield and Beyond: Mothers, Scholars and QTPOC Speak Out"
An evening of conversation with local and national voices on police violence in Springfield, MA and beyond, featuring Kissa Owens (mother of...
Talitha L. LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: A History of Black Women and Convict Labor"
Lecture by award-winning historian Talitha L. LeFlouria (University of Virginia) on the plight of post-Civil War black women prisoners and t...
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