At this event, Miles Leeson—co-editor of the recently released Poems from an Attic (2026), a carefully edited collection of Murdoch’s posthumously discovered poems—will discuss Murdoch’s exploration of the boundaries of poetry, philosophy, relationships, and sexuality with Mark Hopwood, UMBC faculty member and author of the book The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch.
Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique.
How did the majority of Romans get by? What were their strategies for survival? This Ancient Studies Week lecture describes how the Roman world created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves.
Indians on Indian Lands unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, brahminical supremacy, Hindu nationalism, and heteropatriarchy.
This talk by Natanya Duncan, director of the Africana Studies Program and associate professor of history at Queens College, will examine how the women of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) set the stage for W.E.B. Du Bois’ expanded ideas on gender and nation building in the 20th Century.
Puerto Rican history has been a contested space ever since its early days. From Fray Íñigo Abad y la Sierra’s 1788 book to Paul G. Miller’s Historia de Puerto Rico in the early twentieth century, the production of history has served different political purposes. This lecture will explore the ways that history teaching and writing gave way to racialized tropes of Puerto Rican docility and laziness.
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