The Trinity Social Justice Initiative curates conversations in the public humanities. Through public lectures and conversations, it seeks to contribute to public and scholarly debates about struggles for social justice in the United States and the world.
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.
Under martial law during World War II, Hawaiʻi was located at the intersection of home front and war front.
“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.
Jordan T. Camp sat down with Elizabeth Robinson to talk about media, Cedric J. Robinson, and the Black radical archive.
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.
Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci sought to understand the relations among political, economic, ideological, and military forces that were giving rise to this emergent movement and regime.
TSJI will convene a two-day workshop in our new TSJI space dedicated to accompanying organizers who are confronting the prison industrial complex.
Christina Heatherton delivered the keynote address at the “Racialized Policing” conference where she offered a conjunctural analysis of policing.
Trinity students who worked with Christina Heatherton for the semester traveled to Storrs, CT to present their independent research projects, accompanied by Juliet Nebolon (Trinity), Christina, and Jordan.
Christina Heatherton joined Barbara Smith (Combahee River Collective co-founder) and Armin Farris (UCSC) to celebrate the induction of Paul Ortiz as a Hess Scholar at the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College.
