Upcoming Events
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Sep
18
Collaborative Advising for Poli Sci and/or Human Rights Majors 12:30pm
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Sep
25
How Autocrats Compete: Parties, Patrons, and Unfair Elections in Africa12:15pm
How Autocrats Compete: Parties, Patrons, and Unfair Elections in Africa
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Storrs Campus Oak 438
Prof. Oksan Bayulgen leads a Q&A with Prof. Yonatan Morse regarding his new book "How Autocrats Compete: Parties, Patrons, and Unfair Elections in Africa" -
Sep
30
Black Caribs, Indigeneity, and Resistance in 18th Century St. Vincent2:30pm
Black Caribs, Indigeneity, and Resistance in 18th Century St. Vincent
Monday, September 30th, 2019
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Storrs Campus UCHI Conference Room
Tacuma Peters (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley) is a recipient of the 2019 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship and Assistant Professor in Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy
at James Madison College and in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University.
“"Black Caribs, Indigeneity, and Resistance in Eighteenth Century St. Vincent” examines the “Carib Wars” of the mid- to late-eighteenth century. It interprets the political thought and practices that led to Carib resistance to British claims to land and sovereignty in the wake of
the Seven Years’ War. Through an examination of the limited writings of Black Carib leaders, the strategies utilized to resist British colonialism, the history of European interpretations of
Carib polities, and the extant historiography on the two conflicts, Peters argues that St. Vincent after the Seven Years’ War provides a key site of inquiry into the processes of racialization and land dispossession that characterize settler colonialism. Peters concludes by addressing the problems that incomplete and colonial archives pose to historians of political thought and by
meditating on the relationship of Carib anti-colonialism to the concepts and practices of marronage and confederacy.
Darian Spearman, PhD Candidate in Philosophy, will serve as discussant.
Co-sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop and the REP Graduate Certificate Program
To receive the pre-circulated manuscript, email fred.lee@uconn.edu or jane.gordon@uconn.edu -
Oct
17
Curating and Re-curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq: A Conversation4:00pm
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Oct
31
Colloquium: Prof. Alyx Mark (Wesleyan)12:30pm
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Feb
19
Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities, and Rights at Stake12:15pm
Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities, and Rights at Stake
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Storrs Campus Oak 438
Book talk with Prof. Shareen Hertel about her new book "Tethered Fates
Companies, Communities, and Rights at Stake" -
Feb
19
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Alexander Anievas4:00pm
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Alexander Anievas
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute Seminar Room, Babbidge Library 4th Floor
Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Race to Rollback: Far-Right Power in America’s Global Cold War” followed by a light reception. For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/fellowships/current-and-previous-fellows/. If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.
