Where Slaves Became Queens
16 Joseph Henry HouseBayard Rustin, Frances Thompson and William Dorsey Swann have been largely erased from U.S. history, but they and other Black queer leaders played central roles in movements like emancipation, civil […]
Mellon Forum // Stigma, public space, and the symbolic value of race in Cartagena, Colombia
School of ArchitectureInstitutions rely not only on seemingly valorizing culture- and ethnicity-led development strategies, but ones simultaneously rooted in reifying and damaging narratives and visual depictions of racialized groups and geographies. Drawing […]
Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon
Firestone Library, Classroom A-6FDouglass Day is an annual program that marks the birth of Frederick Douglass and strives to create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history during a "Transcribe-a-thon" […]
Translators in/and the Academy
A71 Louis A. Simpson BuildingTo what extent have translators of Latin American and Iberian literatures circulated within the academy? How do translator’s academic practices shape their literary approach, and vice versa? Can the university […]
