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Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice
Text and Context in Early Modern Italy
Revisiting Late Medieval France
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France
Negotiating Shifting Forms
Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France
From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales
Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain
A Tribute to Barbara Mujica
The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic
Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso
Advertising the Self in Renaissance France
Authorial Personae and Ideal Readers in Lemaire, Marot, and Rabelais
The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy
Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing
Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait
Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800
Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists
British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs
The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France
Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre
Eighteenth-Century Women’s Tributes to Women
Early Modern Feminist
Events
- February 18, 2025
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BOSTON and ONLINE: Book Launch with Dr. Joseph Cooper
February 18, 2025 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125
Tuesday, February 18th
11:30 am -1 pmMass Boston
Integrated Science Complex (ISC)
Room 1200
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125More information: Monique Cooper (monique.cooper@umb.edu)
Or virtual via Zoom (meeting id: 968 9445 1222)
The Institute for Innovative Leadership in Sport at UMass Boston invites you to a book launch event with the founding director, Dr. Joseph Cooper, who will be discussing his new book "Black Sporting Resistance: Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Internationalism."
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- February 19, 2025
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LOS ANGELES and ONLINE: Hybrid book talk with Julian Zarifian, author of The United States and the Armenian Genocide at UCLA
February 19, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Bunche Hall, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
This is a hybrid book talk by Julien Zarifian, Ph.D, Professor in U.S. History and Civilization at the University of Poitiers, France, and fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. Dr. Zarifian will present his latest book, The United States and the Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, Politics, published by Rutgers University Press in 2024.
This book talk is co-hosted by the Armenian Genocide Research Program of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, the UCLA Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History, and the NAASR / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Series on Contemporary Armenian Issues.
During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have long described these massacres as genocide, one of Hitler’s prime inspirations for the Holocaust, yet the United States did not officially recognize the Armenian Genocide until 2021.
The United States and the Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, Politics is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Although the American government expressed sympathy towards the plight of the Armenians in the 1910s and 1920s, historian Julien Zarifian explores how, from the 1960s, a set of geopolitical and institutional factors soon led the United States to adopt a policy of genocide non-recognition which it would cling to for over fifty years, through Republican and Democratic administrations alike. He describes the forces on each side of this issue: activists from the US Armenian diaspora and their allies, challenging Cold War statesmen worried about alienating NATO ally Turkey and dealing with a widespread American reluctance to directly confront the horrors of the past. Drawing from congressional records, rare newspapers, and interviews with lobbyists and decision-makers, he reveals how genocide recognition became such a complex, politically sensitive issue.
More information about the event here: https://www.international.ucla.edu/armenia/event/17041
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- February 21, 2025
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NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ: Book Launch & Conference: Latinas/os in New Jersey
February 21, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Archibald S. Alexander Library, 169 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
CLAS Director and Professor Aldo Lauria-Santiago and CLAS Executive Committee Member and Associate Professor Ulla Berg have published a new book titled "Latinos/as in New Jersey" alongside 20 other contributors, listed below. This book brings together innovative and empirically grounded scholarship from different disciplines and interdisciplinary fields of study and addresses topics including the demographic history of Latinos in the state, Latino migration from gateway cities to suburban towns, Latino urban enclaves, Latino economic and social mobility, Latino students and education, the New Jersey Dream Act and in-state tuition act organizing, Latinos and criminal justice reform, Latino electoral politics and leadership, and undocumented communities.
In celebration of the launch of this new book, the Center of Latin American Studies, Latino Studies Research Initiative, and the Department of Latino & Caribbean Studies are hosting a "Book Launch and Conference" event on Friday, February 21, 2025 with several of the contributors in attendance and a reception as well.
For more information on this event, visit here.
If you'd like to learn more about the contents and subject of this book, as well as purchasing information, visit the Rutgers University Press website here.
To RSVP, visit here.
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- February 25, 2025
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LOS ANGELES: Book talk with Julian Zarifian, author of The United States and the Armenian Genocide
February 25, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
USC Institute of Armenian Studies, 3518 Trousdale Pkwy CPA 351, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
The United States and the Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, Politics
Join Julien Zarifian, Professor of U.S. History and Civilization at the University of Poitiers, France, for a book talk on his recent work exploring why the U.S. delayed recognizing the Armenian Genocide until the 2020s. He delves into the geopolitical and institutional factors that led to a policy of non-recognition that endured for more than 50 years through both Republican and Democratic administrations.
More information about the event here: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/book-talk-with-julien-zarifian
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- March 1, 2025
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DECATUR, GA and ONLINE: Labs of Our Own: Feminist Tinkerings with Science--Sig/Sara Giordano in conversation with Sean Saifa Wall
March 1, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
184 S Candler St, Decatur, GA 30030, USA
This event takes place in person at Charis and on crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. This event is free, but registration is required for virtual attendance. Click here to register to attend virtually. Please read the in-person event guidelines at the bottom of this page to be sure you can participate in the event.
Charis welcomes Sig/Sara Giordano in conversation with Sean Saifa Wall for a discussion of Labs of Our Own: Feminist Tinkerings with Science. From climate change to COVID-19 to reproductive justice, there has been deep political polarization around science. Labs of Our Own provides a unique entry point into these twenty-first-century science wars by focusing on our affective relationships to science. This event is co-sponsored by the Kennesaw State University Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies Department.
The book delves into various sites where scientists, teachers, artists, and activists claim to create more democratic access to science—from DIY biology community labs to feminist classrooms to activist science practitioners. The reader will find that these claims for and attempts at democratic sciences not only impact what counts as science and who counts as a scientist but reconfigure who is included in the proper public. Instead of arguing for a knee-jerk defense of science against right-wing attacks, Labs of Our Own builds the case for a feminist, antiracist, decolonial, queer science tinkering practice that intentionally, politically, and ethically acts to produce new challenges to the definition and boundaries of the human.
The Kennesaw State University and Charis Communities are invited to a reception of light snacks and beverages on the front porch of Charis Books & More beginning at 6:30 pm. Seating for the program begins at 7 pm and masks are required at all times during the event. The program will begin promptly at 7:30 pm.
Sig/Sara Giordano is an activist-scholar working as an Associate Professor at Kennesaw State University specializing in feminist science studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. Their areas of interest are the politics and ethics of science with a focus on critical science literacy and the democratization of science.
Sean Saifa Wall (he/him/his) is a Black queer intersex activist and rising scholar. Born and raised in the Bronx, Saifa attended Williams College and received his PhD as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Huddersfield in England. He is co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project, an initiative by intersex people of color to challenge medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children and young adults. Above everything, Saifa is determined to end harmful and invasive genital surgery on intersex children and advocates for affirming healthcare for all people with intersex variations. In addition to his work and activism, Saifa is a loving dad to his dog, Justice.
The event is free and open to all people, but we encourage and appreciate a donation of $5-20 in support of the work of Charis Circle, our programming non-profit. Donate on crowdcast or via our website: www.chariscircle.org/donate or in person at the event.
In-person event guidelines:
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All attendees must wear a face mask during the event.
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We will begin seating people at 7:00 PM ET.
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This event will be live-streamed via crowdcast. Click here to register to attend virtually.
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As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event.
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For more information: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/event/labs-our-own-feminist-tinkerings-science-sigsara-giordano-conversation-sean-saifa-wall
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- March 5, 2025
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ONLINE: Book talk with Casey Golomski, author of God's Waiting Room, at Leiden
March 5, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Online
On Wednesday the 5th of March 2025 Prof. Casey Golomski (University of New Hampshire) will talk about his book God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End (Rutgers University Press). Nikki Mulder Msc will be discussant for this talk.
This talk is a organised by the Globalizing Palliative Care research group.
Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life's lessons, God's Waiting Room considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them. An innovation in creative nonfiction, Casey Golomski's story of his years of immersive research at a nursing home in South Africa, thirty years after the end of apartheid, is narrated as a one-day, room-by-room tour. The story is told in breathtakingly intimate and witty conversations with the home's residents and nurses, including the untold story of Nelson Mandela's Robben Island prison nurse, and readers learn how ageism, sexism, and racism intersect and impact health care both in South Africa and in the United States, as well as create conditions in which people primed to be enemies find grace despite the odds.
Casey Golomski is an award-winning creative writer and cultural and medical anthropologist. His research centers perennial questions about life, death, and their thresholds, asking how people work through and memorialize critical events in their lives and communities. Aside from authoring many academic and literary publications, Golomski's been interviewed for and cited by media outlets such as the New York Times, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Magazine, AlexNews, Times of eSwatini, and Business Times.
For more information, visit here: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025/03/gods-waiting-room-by-casey-golomski
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