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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.

Panel discussion of US-South Korean international relations focusing on democracy, changes in world order, and how regional democracies perceive the US-Korea alliance.

Featuring:
Shaunak Sen (Director, All That Breathes)
Vivek Bald and Alaudin Ullah (Directors, In Search of Bengali Harlem)

In conversation with:
Anand Yang (Professor of History and International Studies)
Alka Kurian (Associate Teaching Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences)

Identities are in flux today. How do individuals and groups make sense of their lives and beliefs in an ever-changing world increasingly in the throes of socioeconomic and religious conflict and environmental crises? Come join us in a conversation with the award-winning directors of the films 鈥淎ll the Breathes鈥� and 鈥淚n Search of Bengali Harlem鈥� which highlight the choices people make to keep hopes alive.

This event is part of the 17th Tasveer South Asian Film Festival

Drawing on extensive doctoral research and professional practice, this lecture invites participants into an exploration of how practitioners and scholars have deliberately integrated the notion of healing into K-12 curricula and professional education. The evolution of restorative justice, social-emotional learning, mindfulness, and trauma-informed teaching reveals a kind of momentum that situates the emergence of the restorative and healing-centered paradigm in educational discourse, practice and research. With the many challenges and crises unfolding before us鈥揺cological disequilibrium, political polarization, socio-economic inequality and health disparities鈥損eople who are interested in educating others are challenged with how to take care of themselves, those who they teach and the communities within which they work. Also, the COVID-19 global pandemic has exacerbated the preexisting conditions that communities, especially those who are most vulnerable, have to contend with. This lecture provides a foundation for thinking, researching and integrating healing-centered education into one鈥檚 professional teaching philosophy and practice.

Jake Grumbach is an associate professor of political science at the 蘑菇视频 who focuses on political economy of U.S. Democracy. In the first of a two- part series, he will discuss the current crisis in American democracy and how national conflicts of race, labor, and democracy are playing out in state governments.