Policing the Climate: Cop Cities and Resistance in the Age of Ecological Crisis
Benjamin Stumpf will join us to discuss the cultural, political, historical, and theoretical dimensions of the climate crisis, cop cities, and abolitionist alternatives in the aftermath of the George Floyd Rebellion. RSVP This event is free and open to the public. The venue is wheelchair accessible. About the Speaker Benjamin Stumpf (they/them) is a Ph.D. […]
The Ideal Enemy
In this episode of Curating Conversations, Dansowaa Adu (M.A. student, Trinity College) speaks with Arun Kundnani about fascism, Islamophobia, and the production of the so-called “ideal enemy” in Samuel Huntington’s words. Drawing on his book, What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism (Verso, 2023) Kundnani explains the limits of liberal anti-racism. He and Adu discuss the need for radical theory to […]
Settler Militarism Book Salon
Under martial law during World War II, Hawaiʻi was located at the intersection of home front and war front.
Shadows Without Bodies: War, Revolutionary Nostalgia, and the Challenges of Internationalism
Extending the analysis from her book, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution, Heatherton will consider how war, nationalism, and revolutionary nostalgia have confounded the development of an internationalist consciousness.
Theorizing the Conjuncture: Stuart Hall, Translatability, and the Challenge of Neo-Fascism
Jordan T. Camp was invited to the University of Birmingham by the Stuart Hall Archive Project to deliver a lecture on Stuart Hall and the relevance of conjunctural analysis for struggles against neo-fascism today.
Archives Unbound
“Archives Unbound” invites scholars who have worked directly with the Robinson archive to share their perspectives on the ongoing or completed research they were able to conduct as a result of working with archival material Elizabeth Robinson has made available to them.
Elizabeth Robinson on Media, Cedric J. Robinson, and the Black Radical Archive
Filmed at the Tamiment Library, NYU
Diasporic Homeplaces: Black Women’s Trans-Geographic Mothering Work
A manuscript workshop with Channon Miller (American Studies and History, Trinity) In May 2024, TSJI hosted a workshop for Channon Miller’s manuscript (under contract, Columbia Univ. Press). It traces the history of Black women’s organizing in Hartford, CT, over the past five decades. She excavates stories about Black motherhood and Black diaspora from geographies often […]
Tracing the Prince’s Steps in Hartford
A delegation visit of Guinean Timbo elders TSJI research cluster Hidden Black CT hosted a delegation of Timbo elders from Guinea. The delegation traced the path of their ancestor, Prince Abdulrahman, who, after having been enslaved in the US for over forty years, came to Hartford around 1828 to fundraise for his trip home to […]
How Museums Remember: Charting a Puerto Rican Object History
Guzmán argues that Puerto Rico affords not only a significant case of discussion for museological studies but also a potential source of translatable models of disciplinary practice in materializing ongoing negotiations of difficult histories and the responsibility of museums.