For KQED in San Francisco, I spoke with reporter Ezra David Romero about the condition of “sacrificial zones” – landscapes where legacies of toxicity become exposed to new dangers of sea level rise along waterfronts that are historically colonized and segregated. Read the story.
Category: Spaces of Grief
“Landscapes of (Racial) Explosivity: San Francisco’s Parrot Block and the 1866 Nitroglycerine Explosion”
Event | The Conversation – “Memorials and Monuments: Lessons from Charlottesville, New Orleans, and Port Chicago”
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: 24th Street Theater, Sierra 2 Center,
2791 24th Street, Sacramento, CA 95818
Join us for “The Conversation,” a new public event series hosted by the UC Davis Humanities Institute that invites professors and public intellectuals to consider current issues of the day. The Conversation will offer an open format, including short remarks by each participant as well as plenty of time for questions and discussion by the audience.
In our first installment, we reflect on recent events in Charlottesville and New Orleans, among other places, that have wrestled with how we remember and memorialize the past. Monuments and calls for their removal have become flashpoints for wider debates about our history and identity.
Panelists will include UC Davis Professors Gregory Downs (History), a leading historian of the Civil War and a leader in the effort to create the first National Park site devoted to Reconstruction and emancipation, and Javier Arbona (American Studies and Design), who is completing a project on memorial landscapes, Black Resistance, and World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area. “The Conversation” will be moderated by Professor Jaimey Fisher of German and Cinema and Digital Media, who has written about contemporary Germany’s relationship to its difficult past.
The event is free and open to the public. Please come and join the conversation!
This event is sponsored by UC Davis Humanities Institute
For more information please contact: Becky Wilson, rjwilson@ucdavis.edu
RSVP here
Reading on spaces of the Afterblast
I was kindly invited by a creative group to join a reading/showing at E.M. Wolfman bookstore in Oakland, on Thursday May 25, 7-9pm (which cuts incredibly close to my bedtime for a school night!) Readings and art for the human & nonhuman worlds w/ Elisabeth Nicula, Kate Schapira, Maya Weeks and myself. There will be projections and readings talking about… Continue reading Reading on spaces of the Afterblast
Queer Boricua Geopolitics and the Pulse Shooting
Queer anthropology’s focus must turn attention to these understandings of the queer geopolitical if we are to understand how homosexuality gets attached to values whether or not they have anything to do with actual lived experiences of LGBT, homosexual, or non-heterosexual peoples. Tamar Shirinian, “The Queer Political is Geopolitical” In the colony, the “world”… Continue reading Queer Boricua Geopolitics and the Pulse Shooting