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Elizabeth Maddock Dillon: “Radical Archival Practices and the Digital Humanities: The Early Caribbean Digital Archive”

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The promise of the digital archive is one of infinite access and endless accumulation—a democratization of knowledge. But the shape of the archive has always been determined by relations of power. Foucault, for instance, defines the archive as the site of the “law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of … Continue reading "Elizabeth Maddock Dillon: “Radical Archival Practices and the Digital Humanities: The Early Caribbean Digital Archive”"

Patricia Tovar: Chronicles of Illustrious Women of the New World — 1492-1524

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Please join us for the weekly ARC Research Praxis Seminar Speaker Series Patricia TovarProfessor of Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal JusticePatricia Tovar's research interests have focused on the study of gender and war, widowhood, forced displacement, violence, sexual and reproductive health, and gender and science. She has written extensively on the consequences of armed … Continue reading "Patricia Tovar: Chronicles of Illustrious Women of the New World — 1492-1524"

Paul Ong: “The Widening Divide Revisited – Economic Inequality in Los Angeles”

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

A quarter century ago, the UCLA 1989 report "The Widening Divide: Income Inequality and Poverty in Los Angeles" generated considerable public and media attention on the growing disparity in the region, resulting in an editorial call for a new development policy that was then embraced by re-elected Mayor Tom Bradley. Despite being a pivotal political moment, the local policy shift at best only attenuated the long-term and persistent increase in the unequal distribution of income and wealth, a trajectory national and global in scale, but very much manifested and experienced locally.

Ebola Crisis in Western Africa

Martin E. Segal Theater 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States

A Roundtable DiscussionFeaturingStéphane Helleringer, Adia Benton, Kim Yi Dionne, and Chair Leith Mullings September 22, 2014 12:30-3:00pm Segal Theater CUNY Graduate Center

What Was the Detroit Geographical Expedition and What is its Relevance Now?

GC Science Center, Room 4102 365 5th Ave, New York, United States

Join us for a conversation about the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute (1968-72), a radical project of community-based collaborative scholar activism and liberatory education, with Gwendolyn Warren, the project’s co-director, and Professor Cindi Katz.