Coffee Chat with Rhiannon Giddens | Friday, April 23, 2021 | 10:00am - 11:00am
Giddens, the North Carolina singer-songwriter and banjoist and founding member of the Grammy-winning group the Carolina Chocolate Drops, is helping to revive the African-American string band tradition and defying stereotypes of music genres. She plays multiple string instruments including the fiddle and the banjo, inspired by the history of black string bands.
A lover of country, folk, and bluegrass music, she is, according to Bluegrass Today, “dismantling the myth of a homogeneous Appalachia.” She is defying the long-held assumptions that American banjo, fiddle, even country music, was invented by and belong only to White people. Join us for some conversation, Q&A, and a little bit of music!
Our way of honoring the contributions of all cultures to the American music scene, the importance of correcting the history of narratives, and a way to say thank you to the hard work done by all at Ӱ this past year. More information to follow. Moderated by Diederich College of Communication Lecturer and the CTL’s very own Sheena Carey.
SPONSORED BY: Center for Teaching & Learning, Ralph Metcalfe Chair, Ӱ Black Alumni Association, and Center for the Advancement of the Humanities
Spring 2021 AMUW Boheim Lecture | Tuesday, April 27, 2021 | 7:00pm CDT | Virtual Lecture
The Association of Ӱ Women proudly presents the Distinguished Eleanor H. Boheim Lecture, "The Humanities in Extra/ordinary Times". Join us as we hear from historian Dr. Antoinette Burton, professor and Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as she rethinks humanities advocacy, drawing on her own biography, research and experience leading the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois and the Humanities Without Walls initiative.
2021 Ralph H. Metcalfe Chair Lecture: Tayari Jones | Wednesday, April 28 | 4:00pm | Virtual Lecture
The Center for the Advancement of the Humanities invites you to a virtual talk with Tayari Jones, the celebrated novelist and essayist best known for her New York Times best-selling novel An American Marriage. In addition to writing, Ms. Jones is the Charles Howard Chandler Professor at Emory University and A.D. White Professor At Large at Cornell University. Ms. Jones will discuss her books, her life, and her career.
Tayari Jones, a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, has also earned fellowships from United States Artists, Guggenheim, NEA, Radcliffe Institute, and the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, Time , Tin House, and The Believer, among other places, and her two stories for Audible were part of the first slate of short fiction Audible Originals.
Jones is a member of Black Artists for Freedom. She is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University, and is currently a Charles Howard Chandler Professor at Emory University and A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University.
The Ralph H. Metcalfe Chair is a non-residential visiting scholar program of Marquette's Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.
The Marquette Literature Community | Book Club | Sundays | 7:00 p.m. | Zoom
The Marquette Literature Community is launching our next book club on Sunday, February 21st. We will meet weekly on Sundays from 7-8:30 pm on Zoom for four weeks. Our next read is Rebecca Makkai's extraordinary, nationally acclaimed 2018 novel, The Great Believers. The author will come to one of our meetings. We are also gathering local experts to come and help us engage with different parts of the novel.
World Premier Film Screening, Panel Discussion, and Q&A | Stolen Babies of Spain | Online | Monday, February 22
From forced sterilization and clandestine adoptions to uneven distribution of healthcare resources and all the way to “disappearance” of children from ICE facilities, reproductive violence takes many shapes and forms.
On February 22 this event shared the transatlantic fights for justice on behalf of children stolen from the maternity hospitals during Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975) in Spain and even during Spain’s transition to democracy (1976-1982) and beyond, as we bring their stories and voices into the debate on reproductive violence.
4.00-5.00 pm: An interdisciplinary discussion panel featuring
- “Stolen” babies under the dictatorship in Argentina (Dr. Laura Matthew, History)
- Children “stolen” from the ICE facilities (Uriel Lopez, MA Candidate, PoliSci)
- Forced sterilization through time and space (the Indian Ocean, California, ICE) (Michael Turcios, Mitchem Fellow, LLAC and Comms and PhD Candidate, USC)
- The case of Ireland (Dr. Tim McMahon, History)
5.00-7.15 pm: World premiere of Stolen Babies of Spain –Winner of Best Documentary Feature Film Award at: The American Golden Picture International Film Festival, Top Indie Film Award in Tokyo, NY Movie Awards, L.A. Indie Film Festival, Around International Film Festival in Berlin, and Mabig Film festival in Augsburg, Germany. It also won Best Women’s Film at the Platonic Film Festival in Punjab, India, and is a finalist at the Golden Earth Film Awards in Hollywood. Directed by Greg Rabidoux and produced by Mara Lencina,
7.15-8.00 pm: Q&A with Greg Rabidoux, director, and Mara Lencina, executive producer of the film, coauthors of the book Stolen Babies of Spain (in English and Spanish) and Marquette alumni.
Organized by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Klinger College of Arts and Sciences) and the Diederich College of Communication. Sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of the Humanities
2021 Black Lens-Black History Month program l Coded Bias Screening l February
The Center is proud to co-sponsor with MKE Film Festival a screening of Coded Bias.
Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her subsequent journey to push for the first-ever US legislation to govern against bias in artificial intelligence. The documentary aims to shine a light on the threat artificial intelligence poses to civil rights and democracy. This film was available for free viewing to Marquette students and educators through the month of February.
reLitMarquette | Friday, February 12 | 4:00 p.m. | Teams | Dr. Tosin Gbogi
Dr. Tosin Gbogi is a Marquette Professor of English whose interdisciplinary research and teaching sit at the intersection of African/African diaspora literatures, popular cultures, and discourse-oriented sociolinguistics.
The Center for the Advancement of the Humanities is pleased to present LitMarquette, organized by Dr. Angela Sorby. LitMarquette sponsors readings that allow Marquette's many faculty and staff creative writers to build community with one another and with student writers.
After a brief pandemic-related diversion, LitMarquette is now ReLitMarquette! This modified series of readings will take place online. Creative writers and appreciative listeners (faculty, students, and staff) are invited to join. A featured reader will present for the first 15 minutes, with an open mic to follow.
Humanities Research Colloquium | Monday, February 8 | 4:00 p.m. | Teams | Advocacy Within Violence and Vulnerability | Dr. Jesse Cheng
Dr. Jesse Cheng, assistant professor of social and cultural sciences, will present “Advocacy Within Violence and Vulnerability.” The session will focus on the practical challenge of conducting advocacy/ethnography with members of precarious populations who may be hostile to engagement with fieldwork. Drawing from his experience as an anthropologically-trained criminal defense lawyer specializing on death penalty cases in the United States, Dr. Cheng seeks to (re)define the ethnographer’s expectations of what constitutes efficacy when working alongside bodies both violent and vulnerable.
To register, email Dr. Melissa Ganz, associate professor of English.
Mission Week l Monday, February 8 l 6:30 p.m. l Ignation Peacemaking Lecture l Zoom
Bearers of Hope: Encounters of Love and Justice in a Broken World l Dr. Maria Teresa (MT) Davila
Maria Teresa (MT) Davila, visiting associate professor of practice at Merrimack College, is a scholar focusing on racial and migrant justice, public theology, and the ethics of the use of force.
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"Encounter" has been at the center of Pope Francis' papacy. His latest encyclical, Fratelli Tutti presents the Good Samaritan as the story that most clearly demonstrates what it means to encounter others as full human beings. Who we are as people depends radically on our ability to bring hope and love to others as we work for a more just world. But how to do this in a seemingly broken world? The call to be bearers of hope to one another must be embodied in everyday practices of building communities across difference, attending to the suffering of others, and justice making.
Mission Week l Tuesday, February 9 l 7:00 p.m. l Virtual l Forum event with Rev. Bryan Massingale, Metcalfe Chair, Professor and James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics
Professor Massingale is a leader in the field of theological ethics. He is a past Convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium and a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics and serves on the editorial board of "Theological Studies," one of the premier Catholic journals of theology. He is a current member and past coordinator of the North American Regional Committee of the “Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church” project.
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Black History Month | Monday, February 1 | 6:00 p.m. | Virtual | Opening Keynote Speaker | Bobby Seale, Co-founder of the Black Panther Party |
Bobby Seale will be speaking virtually on February 1st, 2021 at 6pm. He is an activist and author who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. During his keynote, he will be discussing the Black Panther Party in relation to Black Families and the cross-generational movement against racism.
The Bobby Seale keynote is currently sponsored by the following departments: Ӱ Student Government, Marquette Forum, Black Student Council, Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, Office of Engagement and Inclusion, Center for Urban Research, Teaching & Outreach, Dept. of History, Dept. of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Dept. of Political Science,and Dept. of Social and Cultural Sciences.