UConn Department of Political Science

Colloquium featuring Eric Mielants (Fairfield University). "The State and the Market in Historical Capitalism: Reality and Epistemological Challenges." 12:15pm in Oak 438.

This UConn Foreign Policy Seminar will feature Professor Matthew Karp of Princeton University to speak on “Millions of Abolitionists: The Republican Party and the Radical Democratic Struggle against American Slavery."

Karp's first book, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy, was published by Harvard University Press in 2016.

The reception will begin at 4:30 pm, followed by the presentation at 5:00 pm. If interested in attending the catered dinner, please RSVP to Frank Costigliola.

This UConn Foreign Policy Seminar will feature Professor Manfred Berg who is the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at the University of Heidelberg. Professor Berg's lecture is titled “'For the Liberation of All Peoples, the German People Included’: Woodrow Wilson and the German Revolution of 1918-19”.

Professor Berg is the author of several books, including a 2017 publication of "Woodrow Wilson: America and the Reorganization of the World."

The reception will begin at 4:30 pm, followed by the presentation at 5:00 pm.

Discussion of Prof. Fred Lee’s book Extraordinary Racial Politics: Four Events in the Informal Constitution of the United States with Lisa Lowe (Yale) as discussant

Colloquium: Ideology or Interests? Explaining Support for Social Policy in China (Kerry Ratigan (Amherst College), Alex Jingwei He (Education University of Hong Kong), Jiwei Qian (National University of Singapore)

In Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, widely considered a foundational text of the Indigenous Sovereignty Movement, Vine Deloria, Jr. devoted an entire chapter, as well as several asides, to consideration of “The Red and the Black” or of how to understand the distinct and related circumstances of Indigenous peoples and descendants of enslaved African people in the United States. He argued against both collapsing understandings of distinct historical situations into a singular analysis and treating them as incomparable. At the same time, he stated unequivocally that Indigenous activists, among whom he clearly counted himself, were most sympathetic to Black power movements rather than those that sought civic inclusion. This was because the former used the language of peoplehood, nationalism, and self-determination and urged “peoples to find their homeland and to channel their psychic energies through their land into social and economic reality.” Processes for doing so, he contended, might have been accelerated and strengthened had Black U.S.-Americans been placed on reservations where they would have interacted directly with a federal government that would have had to recognize their status at the Constitutional level and their own elected leaders.

This public discussion seeks to build on and update Deloria’s earlier insights. We will do so by considering questions including the almost complete absence of indigenous Africans in increasingly global Indigenous thought and politics; how it is that people, especially New World Black people, become indigenous to territories outside of the African continent and the potential liberatory effect of such an understanding for Afro-political life; how mental health and well-being for members of the Africana diaspora, as a third space between indigeneity and displacement, requires not only psychological interventions but also political change; and what an American hemispheric approach to settler colonial studies can reveal about what is due by way of freedom of movement and educational opportunity to the “undocumented” Indigenous.

Frames of Reference: Secularism, Religion, and Terrorism in the 21st Century

Research Excellence in Political Science poster session and reception

12:15-2pm in Oak 408