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Humanities Planning Group Past Co-Sponsored Events

2015-2016

The Humanities Planning Group provided funding support for the following events and activities during the academic year:

Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies:

For more details, see https://ccgrs.wsu.edu/calendar-of-events/.

September 10, 2016

Arlene Davila

“El Mall: The Class and Spatial Politics of Shopping Malls in LA””
CUE 203, 5:30 p.m.

November 4, 2015

Cynthia Chandler (Golden Gate Univ)

“Unstuck: Resisting Slavery, Eugenics, and the Prison Industrial Complex”
CUE 203, 5:30 p.m.

March 10, 2016

Inderpal Grewal (Yale University)

“Drone Imaginaries: Gender, Empire, and Postcolony”
CUE 202, 5:30 p.m.

April 12, 2016

Jay Smooth

“hip-hop, race, and politics: the way we talk about things”
CUE 203, 5:30 p.m.

2014-2015

The Humanities Planning Group provided funding support for the following events and activities during the academic year:

Devon Peña, Ph.D.

University of Washington, Department of Anthropology
Garbage In, Garbage Out: An Environmental Justice Critique of Recycling and Other Forms of Green Consumerism
Guest speaker, Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies
October 2, 2014

Jasbir Puar, Ph.D.

Rutgers University, Women’s & Gender Studies
The Right to Maim: Disablement, Palestine, and Disaster Capitalism
Guest speaker, Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies
November 3, 2014

Jigna Desai, Ph.D.

University of Minnesota, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Asian American Studies
Queering Neural Citizenship: Lessons from Autism and Neurodiversity
Guest speaker, Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies
February 5, 2015

David William Foster, Ph.D.

Regents Professor, Arizona State University
Three Founding Latin American Women Photographers
Guest speaker, Humanities Planning Group/Neill Public Library/Whitman County Libraries
February 18, 2015

Ayana Jackson

2015 Jo Hockenhull Distinguished Lecture
Archival Impulse
Guest speaker, Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies
March 26, 2015

 

2013-2014

The Humanities Planning Group provided funding support for the following events and activities during the academic year:

Mark Anthony Neal, Ph.D.

Duke University
Looking for Leroy: (Il)legible Black Masculinities
Guest speaker:  Critical  Culture, Gender and Race Studies
October 24, 2013

Kevin Elliott, Ph.D.

Michigan State University
Is a Little Pollution Good For You? How the Humanities Can Contribute to Science and Policy
Guest speaker: Center for Reproductive Biology
January 27, 2014

 

2012-2013

The Humanities Planning Group provided funding support for the following events and activities during the academic year:

Afaa Michael Weaver, Ph.D.

Visiting Writer’s Series guest speaker, English
November 2012

Mahmood Mamdani, Ph.D.

Guest speaker, History
November 2012

Rebecca Solnit, Ph.D.

Guest speaker, Fine Arts
January 29, 2013

Jin-me Yoon, Ph.D.

2013 Jo Hockenhull Distinguished Lecture
Guest Speaker, Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies
February 19, 2013