Talks

Events

2017
Title	Date	Time	Location
LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN IN FILM	Oct 11	4:30pm to 6:30pm	Kane Hall 225 (Walker Ames Room)
A Conversation with Andrea Schmitt Andrea Schmitt	May 25	3:30pm to 5:00pm	Padelford C-101
Film Screening: Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light Professor Maya Smith and Nick Barr Clingan	May 10	3:30pm to 5:30pm	Allen Library Auditorium
Are we all Phalaris Now? Pleasure, Pain, and (In)visible Suffering in these Modern Times Timothy Pachirat	Apr 24	4:30pm to 6:00pm	CMU 120
Coping with Despair and Strategizing for Justice: A Process and Action Workshop Dr. Anu Taranath	Mar 8	3:30pm to 5:30pm	Intellectual House
A Conversation with María Elena García María Elena García	Mar 1	3:30pm to 5:00pm	Padelford C101
Bamako Chic: A Quest for Alternative Visions of Africa Director Maureen Gosling	Feb 17	10:00am to 11:30am	Thompson 317
Documentary Film Making in Latin America Director Maureen Gosling	Feb 16	4:30pm to 6:00pm	Thompson Hall 101
Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism's Racial Justice and Its Fugitives Dr. Vince Schleitwiler	Jan 26	3:30pm to 5:00pm	202 Communications Building
Disability Inclusive Study Abroad Workshop Susan Sygall, Suz Dunn, Jessie Zhang, Hannah Langlie, Jon McGough	Jan 26	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Mary Gates Hall, Room 024
Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908-1940. John Lear	Jan 25	3:30pm to 5:00pm	Thompson 317

2016
Title	Date	Time	Location
Movement for Justice in El Barrio	Nov 16	4:00pm	Communications 120
Romani History and Social Justice Through Pop Art Vicente Rodriguez Fernandez	Nov 3	4:30pm to 6:00pm	Padelford C-101
Food Forests and the Politics of Urban Agroecology Glenn Herlihy, Beacon Food Forest (Seattle); Bailey Perryman, Garden City 2.0 (Christchurch, NZ); and other Food Activists!	May 17	12:00pm to 1:00pm	Communications Bldg; Room 202
Anne Balay - Working Class Queers: Stories of Public Health, Surveillance, and Dignity	May 11	4:00pm to 5:30pm	Smith 102
Riva Lehrer & Anne Balay speaking at UW Riva Lehrer & Anne Balay	May 11 to May 14		TBD
Anti-Judaism: Past and Present Dr. David Nirenberg	May 9	7:00pm	Kane Hall - Room 220
Seeing Like an Oil Producer: Abundance, Pollution, and Graphic Display Dr. David McDermott Hughes, Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University-New Brunswick	May 9	12:00pm to 1:30pm	CMU 202
Decolonizing Extinction: Orangutans and the Work of Care in Sarawak, present-day Malaysia Dr. Juno (Rheana) Salazar Parreñas	Mar 31	4:00pm to 5:00pm	CMU 120
After the Pacific: Indigenous Histories and Futures	Feb 25	3:00pm	Wǝɫǝbʔaltxw Intellectual House
Prophesizing the Global. A Conversation with Fabrice Monteiro Fabrice Monteiro	Feb 11	4:00pm	COM 120

2015
Title	Date	Time	Location
LACS will host an event with a delegation from Nueva Trinidad (El Salvador)	Nov 13	12:00pm to 2:00pm	CHID Lounge
Maíz y el país: Political Violence in Mexico and corn's Lessons for Justice Liz Rivera	Nov 3	11:00am to 1:00pm	Thomson 317
Romani Rights Through Pop and Comic Art Vicente Rodriguez Fernandez	Oct 23	12:30pm to 1:30pm	CHID Lounge
Poiesis in Living and Dying Robert Desjarlais	Oct 7	3:30pm to 4:50pm	Gowen 201
Photography and the Politics of Life Robert Desjarlais	Oct 6	12:30pm to 2:20pm	MGH 085
The Ethnography of Life and Death: A Conversation with Philippe Bourgois and Robert Desjarlais Philippe Bourgois and Robert Desjarlais	Oct 6	10:00am to 12:00pm	CMU 202
Taranath	Jun 9	6:00pm to 9:00pm
Visual Ecologies and Solidarities: Art Across the Americas (VES) Vanessa Agard-Jones	May 21	4:00pm to 6:00pm	UW Campus, Communications 202-204
Visual Ecologies and Solidarities: Art Across the Americas (VES) Laurent Valère	May 20	3:30pm to 5:00pm	UW Campus, Communications 120
Visual Ecologies and Solidarities: Art Across the Americas (VES) J. Carlos Pinto	May 19	3:30pm to 5:00pm	UW Campus, Communications 120
Visual Ecologies and Solidarities: Art Across the Americas (VES) Jorge Miyagui and Mauricio Delgado	May 18	3:00pm to 5:00pm	Ethnic Cultural Center - Unity Room
Visual Ecologies and Solidarities: Art Across the Americas	May 18 to May 22
The Enigma of Revolt: Segregation and the “New Urban Question” in contemporary Nicaragua Dennis Rodgers	Apr 28	3:30pm to 5:00pm	Gould 440
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Anu Taranath Dr. Anu Taranath	Apr 15	12:00pm to 1:00pm	Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center Staff (ECC)
Environmental Justice in Guatamala Jorge Armando López Pocol	Feb 10	4:30pm	THO 101

2014
Title	Date	Time	Location
Cultural Death and Radical Hope John Toews	Dec 3	7:00pm	Kane Hall 130
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement Dr. Akinyele Umoja	Nov 17	4:00pm	CMU 120
Why We Eat Our Relatives: The Predation Paradox of Other-Than-Human Kinship Daniel Heath Justice	Nov 13	4:30pm to 6:30pm	Thomson 101
Why We Eat Our Relatives: The Predation Paradox of Other-Than-Human Kinship Daniel Heath Justice	Nov 13	4:00pm	THO 101
Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements Chris Dixon	Oct 30	4:00pm to 6:00pm	Smith 211
Why are the Border Kids Fleeing? Human Rights and U.S. Policy in Honduras and Central America Dana Frank	Oct 23	7:00pm	Thomson 101
Conversations & Music from Honduran Artist + Feminist in Resistance Karla Lara Karla Lara	Oct 22	5:00pm to 6:30pm	Thompson 101
Invitation To Dance - A documentary Film - Followed by Q&A with the film Director	Oct 20	3:00pm to 5:00pm	Odegaard Library 220
The Good Life: Guatemalan Coffee, Cocaine, and Capabilities Edward Fischer	Oct 2	4:30pm to 6:00pm	Thomson 101
CHID Student Thesis Presentations	Jun 3		Allen Auditorium (in Allen Library North)
Pedagogy of Solidarity Walter Ferreira de Oliveira	May 27	4:00pm	Foege Auditorium (Room S-060) & Vista Café
Che Sehyun, CHID Alum to give TEDx Talk: "Change Yourself to Change the System – because the system lives inside you" CHID Alum, Che Sehyun to give TEDx Talk	May 3	11:10pm	TEDx live stream
CHID student to give TEDx Talk: "Sharing a Vision: Scientists and Animal Rights Activists Working Together" Sarah Olson, current CHID student	May 3	3:30pm	TEDx live stream
CHID Student Thesis Presentations	Mar 11		Allen Auditorium (in Allen Library North)
Only Unity: Serbia in the Aftermath of Yugoslavia Matt Lutton	Feb 6	6:00pm	Allen Library Auditorium
Centering Animals in Latin American History Zeb Tortorici and Martha Few	Jan 29	4:30pm to 6:30pm	CMU 120

2013
Title	Date	Time	Location
CHID Student Thesis Presentations	Dec 3		Allen Auditorium (in Allen Library North)
CHID 490 & 491 Spring 2013 Senior Thesis Presentations Allen Auditorium (in Allen Library North), Tuesday, May 28th, 10:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Thesis Presentations	May 28	10:30am to 5:00pm	Allen Auditorium (in Allen Library North),
Karma Chávez from Against Equality Karma Chávez, Against Equality	May 27		TBD
The Global Movement for Environmental Justice: A Forum to Bring Together Two Prominent Indian EJ Activists and the UW community in Conversation.	May 16	3:30pm	CMU 226
encuentro de fandangueros del Pacific Northwest	May 11	6:00pm	Casa Latina
None of Us Were Like This Before Joshua E.S. Phillips	May 6	12:00pm to 3:00pm	Thomson 317