During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities听to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.听
Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听
Fighting Visibility: Unpaid Gendered & Racialized Labor for the UFC
March 31, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |听
In the first COM Spring Colloquium, hosted by the Department of Communication, Dr. Jennifer McClearen specifically considers how UFC athletes navigate the labor of visibility on social media.听She examines interviews with female UFC fighters and discourse analysis of UFC content. Building followers online, engaging with fans, and promoting sponsors as micro-influencers is an unpaid and often invisible form of aspirational labor that the UFC strongly encourages its fighters to undertake. Dr. McClearen considers how white women and women of color navigate the athletic labor of femininity to promote themselves online. She argues that the听UFC鈥檚 unpaid labor practices leverage a disproportionate gendered and racialized tax on the very women it claims to make visible at unprecedented levels.
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Live Webinar: Mellon Sawyer Seminars 鈥淗umanitarianisms鈥� Series: Sinan Antoon
April 1, 3:30 – 4:45 PM |听
This webinar is the first of three on 鈥淩ethinking the Human,” part of the Simpson Center for the Humanities’ Humanitarianism Sawyer Seminar series.
Material and discursive resources and energies are dedicated (insufficiently and unequally) to rescue the living from harm, and to tend to their wounds. But what of the dead? What can we, the living, learn from the rituals and traditions of tending to the dead and to their wounds? Beyond the corporeal, encounters with the ghosts and memories of the dead raise crucial political questions about the ways in which humans inhabit this world. Al-Ma鈥檃rri cautioned us a millennium ago to 鈥渢read gently, for the soil of this earth is made of these corpses.鈥� This talk, delivered by poet听Sinan Antoon and听Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization听Selim S. Kuru will summon al-Ma鈥檃rri鈥檚 ghost, among others, to address these questions.
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BOOK TALK | Anand Yang, “Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia”
April 1, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |听
Join the听South Asia Center as Walker Family Endowed Professor in History and Professor of International Studies Anand Yang speaks about his new book, followed by a Q&A session. Hosted by Sunila S. Kale, Director of the South Asia Center and Associate Professor of International Studies.
A major contribution to histories of crime and punishment, prisons, law, labor, transportation, migration, colonialism, and the Indian Ocean World,听Empire of Convicts听narrates the experiences of Indian听bandwars听(convicts) and shows how they exercised agency in difficult situations, fashioning their own worlds and even becoming 鈥渢heir own warders.鈥� Anand Yang brings long journeys across听kala pani听(black waters) to life in a deeply researched and engrossing account that moves fluidly between local and global contexts.
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Beverly Guy-Sheftall 鈥� Say Her Name: The Urgency of Black Feminism Now
April 5, 6:30 PM |听Online听
Black feminist discourse and activism have been significant interventions in a variety of social justice movements in the U.S. since the 19th century, though this has not always been acknowledged. In the aftermath of reforms catalyzed by the Black Lives Matter Movement, a queer black feminist project, Beverly Guy-Sheftall鈥檚 talk will reflect upon the transformations in civil society, academe, electoral politics, the criminal justice system, and other spaces that have occurred over the past year as a result of recent protests around systemic racism and other issues. Sponsored by the听Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of American Ethnic Studies.
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Jewish Questions Podcast
Jewish Questions听is the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies鈥� podcast on issues that matter now in Jewish life, politics, history and culture 鈥� from a scholarly perspective.
This season, hosts听Associate Professor of History听Laurie Marhoefer听and听Director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies听Noam Pianko听talk with faculty experts from the 91探花 about anti-Semitism: what it is, its long history, and how to push back against it today.
Jewish Questions comes out weekly on Wednesdays. This season鈥檚 five episodes will look at the causes and consequences of anti-Semitism across history, from medieval Spain to Nazi Germany to the United States in the 20th century.
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