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.
Public Lectures
Benjamin Stumpf (UConn)
April 8, 2025
4:15 pm
Under martial law during World War II, Hawaiʻi was located at the intersection of home front and war front.
Public Lectures
Juliet Nebolon in conversation with J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Jodi Kim, and Momo Djebli, moderated by Christina Heatherton
March 4, 2025
4:15 pm
“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.
Curated Conversations
Jordan Camp and Christina Heatherton, Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Matthew Harris, and Joshua Myers, moderated by Utathya Chattopadhyaya and Stephanie Batiste
June 1, 2024
Jordan T. Camp sat down with Elizabeth Robinson to talk about media, Cedric J. Robinson, and the Black radical archive.
Curated Conversations
Elizabeth Robinson
May 29, 2024
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.
Invited presentations
Christina Heatherton and Ayça Çubukçu
May 23, 2024
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.
Curated Conversations
Marcus E. Green, Renate Holub, Ilaria Giglioli, Jennifer J. Casolo, Christina Heatherton, Jordan T. Camp and more
December 2, 2023
TSJI will convene a two-day workshop in our new TSJI space dedicated to accompanying organizers who are confronting the prison industrial complex.
Workshops
Rachel Herzing, Naomi Murakawa, Jack Norton, Judah Schept, Jordan T. Camp, and Christina Heatherton
January 6, 2024
–January 7, 2024
Christina Heatherton delivered the keynote address at the “Racialized Policing” conference where she offered a conjunctural analysis of policing.
Invited presentations
Christina Heatherton
April 19, 2024
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.
Invited presentations
Molly Simons, Dansowaa Adu, Tia Wurzrainer
April 5, 2024
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.
Invited presentations
Paul Ortiz, Barbara Smith, Armin Farris, and Christina Heatherton
April 1, 2024
