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VIRTUAL EVENT. The Phenomenon of New Russian Drama: What’s New About It?

Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. The Harriman Institute's Contemporary Culture Series presents a conversation with Maksim Hanukai (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Susanna Weygandt (Sewanne: The University of the South), editors of the volume New Russian Drama: An Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2019) with translator Ania Aizman (University of Michigan), as well as Julie Curtis (University of Oxford), editor of New…

Human-Non-Human Entanglements of Prediction in Permafrost-Bound Land

The intensification of ecological fragility and rapidity of environmental change in the Siberian Arctic questions adaptability and human capacity to predict and avert ecological disasters while pointing at potential limitations of available models for forecasting and mitigating environmental calamities. Given the bounded human capacity for predicting unpredictable, the challenge is to craft a tentative strategy that takes into detailed and…

Black Women, Citizenship, and France’s Universalist Myths

REGISTER HERE TO RECEIVE A LINK TO THE EVENT. In this talk drawn from her book, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire, Annette Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal Black French women’s anticolonialist endeavors. She shows how their activism and thought challenged French imperialism by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple…