Please join us for the opening reception for the exhibit: Takeover, Morrill Hall 1969. Exhibit curators Greg Donofrio, Kevin Murphy, and Elisabeth DeGrenier will be on hand to discuss the making of the exhibit.
Light refreshments will be served.
In what ways can water heal? Shaman Yang Cheng (Yaj Ceeb Vang) and medical anthropologist Dr. Mai See Thao engage in a dialog about the ways water surfaces in their work and practice. Yang Cheng discusses the multiple functions of water (clean water, honest/clear water, holy or magical water, poison water, and shamanic/dragon’s water) in Hmong cultural and religious practices. Dr. Thao explores the intersection of social memory, historical trauma, and water.
As the nation's sociocultural experience becomes more fractured and radicalized, how do educators and students react and adapt? What histories and geographies of fascism and racism should we be aware of? How have terms evolved, and how does fascism relate to racism and misogyny? Join us for this teach-in, which aims to help better equip faculty, staff, and students to navigate challenges new and old through a quick review of the basics, followed by discussion in small groups.
This lecture focuses on two questions: What is the history of US energy transitions? And to what extent does the current transition from fossil fuels to alternative energies (primarily solar and wind power) differ from these earlier transitions? The answer to the first question is largely based on Nye's "Consuming Power" (MIT Press, 1998) and the work of Thomas Hughes, particularly the concept of technological momentum; this includes discussion of the shifts from water power to steam to electricity and fossil fuels.
Katerina Clark, a native of Australia, is a Professor of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literature at Yale University, and has taught at SUNY Buffalo, Wesleyan University, the University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University and Berkeley. Her present book project, tentatively titled Eurasia without Borders?: Leftist Internationalists and Their Cultural Interactions, 1917–1943, looks at attempts in those decades to found a “socialist global ecumene,” which was to be closely allied with the anticolonial cause.
