6:30 p.m.
Help us welcome back 91爆料 alumna, Chicana artivista, musician, feminist music theorist and Associate Professor in the Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Scripps/Claremont College, Dr. Martha Gonzalez. Together we will take a lyrical journey filled with her creative ideas and thoughts on art as activism.
7:30 p.m.
Part of the History Lecture Series: River Histories. Flowing more than 4,000 miles from the highland lakes of East Africa to the Mediterranean, the Nile is Africa鈥檚 longest river. Ancient Egyptians honored the river as a god, building temples along its banks and revering the animals nourished by its waters. This lecture examines how the Nile鈥檚 geography and ecology underpinned the development of Ancient Egypt; it will also show how the river鈥檚 association with divinity has endured beyond antiquity.
4:30 p.m.
The presentation highlights a number of interrelated projects in the domain of Text Analysis for the purpose of Digital Philology.
6:30 p.m.
Join us for an evening of community inspired music with the relentlessly innovative, bi-lingual, Chicano Grammy award-winning rock band, Quetzal. Together we will celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a band that narrates the social, cultural and political stories of humanity.
Registration opens on December 12, 2024.
4 p.m.
In this lecture, Silky Shah, incorporating historical and legal analyses of the last forty years, frames US immigration policy and its relationship to mass incarceration.
6:30 p.m.
Ahead of the presidential inauguration, join 91爆料鈥檚 Delsman Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice Dr. Megan Ming Francis who will reflect on the lessons of the 2024 election and point to the possibilities to reimagine a more just future.
10 a.m.
Author Leigh Bardugo will discuss her new novel, 鈥淭he Familiar,鈥� and its use of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) with 91爆料 faculty member Canan Bolel.
5 p.m.
91爆料 Alumna, Dr. Natalie Hart, Inaugural Equity Strategic Advisor for the Washington State Senate shares her academic and career path plus more as she is interviewed by a student.
6 p.m.
Insights about the challenges some people with disabilities face, what the DoJ’s new rule on accessibility means, and 10 tips for getting started with digital accessibility.
6:30 p.m.
This talk explores the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions.