Title: "Nightmare Envy and Other Stories: American Culture and European Reconstruction. A Warren Center "occasional speaker", in collaboration with the American Studies Program.
As “American dream” became a cliché in the 20th century, the contrary refrain of American nightmare was probably inevitable. This talk is about American culture and European reconstruction. Alongside the familiar currents of Henry Luce’s American Century run stranger currents of culture, as the ruin of postwar Europe led writers...
Between 2014 and 2016 an estimated 1.6 million refugees and migrants crossed the Mediterranean by boat to Europe. Over 12,000 deaths were recorded of people trying to make the journey, and many more unrecorded deaths are thought to have occurred elsewhere along the way before reaching the sea. In 2015, at the height of Europe’s so-called ‘migrant/refugee crisis’, over one million arrivals were recorded in Italy and Greece and 3771 people died during the crossing. Against this backdrop, the paper locates the discussion over migrant deaths at sea in the context of debates on borders,...
Join us to celebrate the National Poetry Month with a Latinx poetry reading. From Elizabeth Acevedo’s poetry, infused with Dominican bolero and her beloved New York’s tough grit, to Peggy Robles-Alvarado’s rhythmic energy to celebrate womanhood and honor cultural systems, through the work of Danielle Legros Georges, City of Boston...
Post-screening discussion with co-director Medhin Paolos and Dr. Angela Davis
Asmarina: It's a film documentary about the eritrean-ethiopian diaspora in Italy. It traces the complex networks of colonial legacies, transnational migrations, family ties, and diasporic politics. The result is a collective tale which brings to light a postcolonial hertiage that has been little scrutinized up to now.
Event Free and Open to the Public. Tickets Available through Harvard Box Office
Title: "State-Building, Carcerality, and the Fate of Racial Justice and Economic Equality in Postwar America." Presented by the Workshop on Crime and Punishment.
