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Spring 2023 Lecture Series

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Jan 27 | 2 pm EST (Virtual; Zoom registration here)

Afterimages: Afro-Puerto Ricans Beyond the Archive

Speaker: Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez (Associate Professor of Global Afro-Diaspora Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University)

 

Feb 24 | 2 pm EST (In Person at the UK Athletics Association Auditorium)

Femicide and Mother Activism

Speaker: Melissa W. Wright (Professor of Geography and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Department of Geography at Pennsylvania State University)

 

March 31 | 2 pm EST (Virtual; Zoom registration here)

Namelessness and Posthumous Care

Speaker: Eunjung Kim (Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and the Department of Cultural Foundations of Education and Disability Studies Program at Syracuse University)

 

April 14 | 2 pm EDT (In Person; Location forthcoming)

Life, Death, and Environmental Gendered Racialized Struggles in Mexico

Speaker: Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera (Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies and Anthropology at Lake Forest College)