Humanities Institute

In the Crosshairs: Dispatches from Central America, 1983-1990

Wednesday, February 20, 2019
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Konover Auditorium
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

Join us for a discussion with journalists John Lee Anderson, Robert Nickelsberg, and Scott Wallace about covering violence and political change in Central America in the 1980s, as well as the legacy of those conflicts today.

Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning” followed by a light reception.
For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/2018-19fellows/.
If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.

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Mark's UConn talk will take place from 2 - 3 PM on March 6, 2019.
For more information, visit:
https://nehc.uconn.edu/blog/

If you require special accommodations to participate, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

As part of the Gender and History Visiting Scholar Series, Dr. Keisha N. Blain, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and President of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will provide a public lecture, titled "Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom," inspired by her recently published first book. The lecture will be followed by a reception. For an abstract of the lecture, please see below:

In this talk, historian Keisha N. Blain discusses how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics during the twentieth century. In Chicago, Harlem, and the Mississippi Delta, from Britain to Jamaica, these women built alliances with people of color around the globe, agitating for the rights and liberation of black people in the United States and across the African diaspora. As pragmatic activists, they employed multiple protest strategies and tactics, combined numerous religious and political ideologies, and forged unlikely alliances in their struggles for freedom. Their stories, which have been largely hidden in popular historical narratives, underscore the depth and complexities of the global black freedom struggle and offer valuable lessons for contemporary black politics and activism.

As part of the Gender and History Visiting Scholar Series, Keisha N. Blain, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and President of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will join UConn graduate students and faculty to workshop a pre-circulated paper titled "East Unites with West:Black Women, Japan, and Visions of Afro-Asian Solidarity". Professor Blain's research interests pertain to black internationalism, global feminisms, and radical politics. Her first book, recently published in 2018 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, is titled: Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom.

Please contact Professor Cornelia Dayton if interested in attending.