Migratory Journeys to the United States as Seen Through Contemporary Mexican Theater

Thu, Apr 10, 2025 4:30pm

The era of refugees and migrants, encompassing most of the 20th and 21st centuries, is characterized by displaced and transient human masses. They come crowded in boats, trains, trucks, cars, on...

Lawrence Hall, 020

Catching Breeze with Staceyann Chin

Fri, Mar 28, 2025 11:30am to 1:30pm

Join Africana and Latin American Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in Celebration of Carribean Week! Meet Staceyann Chin, poet, performer, and activist,...

Center for Women's Studies, The Lounge at East Hall

A Mother Apart

Thu, Mar 27, 2025 7pm to 9pm

Staceyann Chin in person How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you? In a remarkable story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin,...

Little Hall, Golden Auditorium

Blackstar Selects

Thu, Mar 6, 2025 7pm to 9pm

Since 2012, the BlackStar Film Festival has celebrated the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and global Indigenous communities, showcasing films by Black and Brown people...

Little Hall, Golden Auditorium

M Is for Mother/Who Killed Eloa

Thu, Feb 27, 2025 7pm to 9pm

Followed by virtual Q&A with director Lívia Perez A tender meditation on love, identity, and resilience, M is for Mothers follows Brazilian couple Melanie and Marcela as they embark on their...

Little Hall, Golden Auditorium

Inside Tenement Time: Suss, Spirit, and Surveillance

Tue, Feb 25, 2025 11:30am to 1pm

Kezia Page, Associate Professor of English and ALST, will share from her recently published book, Inside Tenement Time: Suss, Spirit, and Surveillance. The book looks at surveillance in Jamaica as...

Center for Women's Studies, The Lounge at East Hall