Voyage Sans Visa: A musical storytelling performance by Senegalese griot Boubacar Ndiaye and musicians Baye Cheikh Mbaye and Pape Ndiaye Paamath.
Name: Boubacar Ndiaye. Baye Cheikh Mbaye, Pape Ndiaye Paamath
Affiliation: Columbia Museum of Art Theater
Date: October 25th, 2022
Time: 7-8:30pm
Columbia Museum of Art Theater
Ukuphazama iNatali: Bringing Queer & Indigenous Studies History Approaches to South African History & Beyond
Name: Dr. T.J. Tallie
Affiliation: Department of History, University of San Diego
Day and Date: Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020
Time: 4 - 5:15 p.m.
The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria
Name: Dr. Robin Chapdelaine, Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Department of History, Duquesne University
Date: March 11
Time: 11: 40 – 12:50 p.m.
Recorded lecture available upon request
Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement
Name: Dr. Tiffany Florvil, Associate Professor
Affiliation: Department of History, The University of New Mexico
Date: March 23
Time:3-4:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology and Society
International Social Services and Covid-19: the West African Experience
Name: Dr. Olusade Taiwo
Affiliation: Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research
Date: March 23
Time: 1-2:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the USC College of Social Work
Queer Love and Critical Resilience in Wanuri Kahiu's Rafiki
Name: Lindsey Green-Simms,
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Literature, American University
Franz Boas’s in ‘Porto Rico’ (1915): Jíbaro Folk Tales and Legends
Name: Dr. Rafael Ocasio
Affiliation: Charles A. Dana Professor and Chair of Spanish and the Faculty Fellow for the Gay Johnson McDougall Center for Global Diversity and Inclusion at Agnes Scott College
Date: March 29th, 2023
Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm
Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and US Latinx Studies Program and the Department
of Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures
Dr. Greg Dawes presents "Ideology and the Struggle over Memor: Brizuela's Una misma noche"
Name: Dr. Greg Dawes
Affiliation: Distinguished Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at North Carolina State University
Date: February 14th, 2023
Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm
Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and US Latinx Studies Program and the Department
of Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures
Engaging Locally & Transnationally with SC Centro Latino through the Multilingual Public Humanities
Name: Dr. Araceli Hernandez-Laroche
Affiliation: Director of South Carolina Centro Latino, Professor of Modern Languages and Coordinator of French Global Studies at USC Upstate
Date: January 26th, 2023
Time: 4:30pm
Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and US
Latinx Studies Program/Latino and Hispanic Faculty
Caucus and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Slaves who write? Auto-Representation of Enslaved People in Slavery
Name: Dr. Michael Zeuske
Affiliation: Professor of Latin Amercian and Iberian History at the University of Köln (Cologne), Germany
Date: October 12th, 2022
Time: 3:30pm (Zoom)
Sponsored by Latin American Studies Program
Digitizing Ancestral Memory: Garifuna Settlement Day in the Americas and in Cyberspace
Name: Paul Joseph López Oro
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Smith College
Date: March 15
Virtual class visit to ANTH 271 - Language and Popular Culture
Instructor: Dr. Sherina Feliciano-Santos
Great Effervescence: Jewishness and Indigeneity in Mesoamerican Fiction
Name: Stephanie Pidgeon
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Bates College
Date: March 25
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with Jewish Studies and Film and Media Studies
Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film
Name: Stephanie Pidgeon
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Bates College
Date: March 25
Virtual class visit to SPAN 575/SPAN 783
Instructor: Dr. Rebecca Janzen
Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo
Name: Tessa Farmer
Affiliation: Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Viriginia
Date: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Callcott Room 104
Staple Security: Book Talk with Jessica Barnes
Name: Jessica Barnes
Affiliation: Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and School of Earth, Ocean, and the Environment.
Date: October 28th, 2022
Time: 3:00pm
Callcott 101
The Valley of Saints: Film Screening and Q&A with Director, Musa Syeed
Date: October 26th, 2022
Location: The Nickelodeon
Time: 6pm
Asian American Community Music Making with Eric Hung
Name: Dr. Eric Hung
Date: Friday, March 18th, 2023
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
Boyd Plaza (in front of the Columbia Museum of Art)
Hosted by:
Transpacific Intercultural Collaboration Research Group
The Humanities Collaborative
Co-sponsored by:
The School of Music and the Music History Area
Peake Colloquium
The Music of Asian America Research Center
Promoting Women in the Arts in the Digital Era
Name: Dr. Colleen Laird
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Japanese Popular Culture at the University of British Columbia
Date: Friday, March 24th, 2023
Time: 1:00-5:00pm
Richland Library-Main Branch Auditorium
Co-sponsored by the School of Visual Art and Design, Humanities Collaborative
Link : https://www.richlandlibrary.com/event/2023-03-24/promoting-women-arts-digital-era
Swimming Back to Trout River: A Conversation with Novelist Linda Rui Feng
Name: Linda Rui Feng
Affiliation: Cultural Historian at the University of Toronto
Date: December 8th, 2022
Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Richland Library-Main Branch Auditorium
Co-sponsored by Transpacific Intercultural Collaboration Research Group, USC Humanities Collaborative Center for Asian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Oceans, Gardens, and Jungles: Worldviews and the Planet
Name: Dr. Prasenjit Duara
Affiliation: Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University
Date: October 11th, 2022
Time: 4:00pm
McKissick Museum Theater
Co-sponsored by History Center, Department of History, Transpacific Intercultural Collaboration Research Group, Humanities Collaborative
Political Self-Organization in Ukraine: From Euromaidan to Russia's Invasion
Name: Dr. Emily Chanell-Justice
Affiliation: Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Date: February 14th, 2023
Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm
East View Event Room
Close-Hipp Building 8th Floor
Co-sponsored by European Studies Program, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program
Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week: Holocaust Memory in Eastern Europe
Name: Dr. Jelena Subotic
Affiliation: Professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University
Date: January 24th, 2023
Time: 4:30-6pm
Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Frozen Reconciliation? Peacebuilding efforts in divided Ireland
Name: Dr. Kara Dempsey
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Geography at Appalachian State University
Date: January 18th, 2023
Time: 4:30-6pm
Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Sponsored by Department of Geography
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A Year of Reporting on the War in Ukraine
Name: Isabelle Khurshudyan
Affiliation: Ukraine Bureau Chief, The Washington Post
USC Class of 2014
Date: March 14th, 2023
Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Close-Hipp Blgd. East View Room, 8th Floor
Sponsored by Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Political Self-Organization in Ukraine: From Euromaidan to Russia's Invasion
Name: Dr. Emily Chanell-Justice
Affiliation: Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Date: February 14th, 2023
Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm
East View Event Room
Close-Hipp Building 8th Floor
Sponsored by Russian and Eurasian Studies Program
Curative Mythmaking: Children's Bodies, Medical Knowledge, and the Frontier of Health in Early Soviet Odesa
Name: Dr. Matthew Pauly
Affiliation: Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University
Date: January 20th, 2023
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Gambrell Hall, Room 429