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This free public lecture will discuss how effective parenting can act as a protective shield against the difficulties that children face in challenging times and global conflict.

In this talk, Ruha Benjamin聽introduces a microvision of change聽—聽a way of looking at the everyday ways people are working to combat unjust systems and build alternatives to the oppressive status quo.聽Born of a stubborn hopefulness and grounded in social analysis, she聽offers a pragmatic and poetic approach to fostering a more just and joyful聽world.

Registration opens December 13, 2022.

Learn new research and approaches for child and family well-being using a positive approach to health that fosters self, family, and community-led healing of trauma and adversity.

黑料吃瓜网 Professor of English Shawn Wong has been working on his DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) statement for 50 years (38 years at the 黑料吃瓜网) and is almost finished. He began writing it when, as an undergraduate, he was told that Asian American literature did not exist, that his writing had too much style to be written by him, that his first students could not get English credit for taking his Asian American literature classes, and that large corporations could question his birthright and his ownership of intellectual property. His first book, Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers, turns 50 in 2024 and it’s where this DEI travel story begins.

Shawn Wong will be joined in conversation by Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs Ed Taylor.

Join award-winning poet and author, Cathy Park Hong who will bring her words to life as she shares personal anecdotes of her life as an Asian American. She will expands on the ideas from her book to incorporate the historical and cultural context of what it means to be a racialized other.

Lecture from Preetha Mani, Assistant Professor of South Asian Literatures, Rutgers University

Abstract

Based on my recent book, this talk compares Hindi and Tamil literature to explore the feasibility and durability of the idea of Indian literature and its capacity to collect diverse literary and linguistic strategies and aims beneath the auspices of a single rubric. Hindi and Tamil writers were active theorists who claimed the literary as the terrain on which to define and contest the postcolonial condition. Their theorizations created new forms of aesthetic affiliation between readers, writers, and texts by framing how texts should be positioned and received. The affiliations they forged were tied to the fissures of language and region yet also exceeded these fissures through the promise of readerly communion in multilingualism and translation. The unrealizability of this promise breathes life into the idea of Indian literature and its ambition to circumvent the politics of language, while linking literature to nation.

The anti-communist purge in Indonesia in the 60s was one of the gravest peace-time mass violence events of post WWII. For decades, the Indonesia govt. refused to acknowledge it.

In this performance, Canadian rapper and former tree-planter Baba Brinkman will break down the science, politics, and economics of global warming, following its surprising twists from the carbon cycle to the global energy economy. To paraphrase the Notorious BIG: 鈥淢o鈥� carbon, mo鈥� problems.鈥�

Dr. Chao will examine how Marind experience, conceptualize, and contest the impacts of agroindustrial expansion on their more-than-human lifeworlds.

Lecture from Maira Hayat, Assistant Professor of Environment and Peace Studies
University of Notre Dame

Hayat is a concurrent faculty member in Notre Dame鈥檚 Department of Anthropology. Before coming to Notre Dame, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Stanford University鈥檚 Department of Anthropology and at the Woods Institute for the Environment. She earned a PhD from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago in December 2018. Hayat graduated from the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan in 2008 and holds an MSc in social anthropology from the University of Oxford.