"Queer Historical Mixtape" - Screening + Q&A
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Trump, Capitalism's Crisis, and a New Way Forward
Thought-provoking economist Richard Wolff returns to Los Angeles to discuss the divisive crisis of capitalism under President Donald Trump and to outline better solutions.
"US capitalism's instability and deepening inequality since the 1970s has destroyed its "middle class," overturned its old politics (Trump), and sharply divided its culture," he says. "Basic social change is underway.
Dr. He Chengzhou (Nanjing University): "Cross-Dressing Performance and Gender Politics in Contemporary Chinese Pop Culture"
About He Chengzhou
Dr. He (PhD, Oslo, Norway) is the Changjian Distinguished Professor and Dean of the School of Arts at Nanjing University, China, and a foreign member of the Academy of Europe. He also served as the Chinese Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies. Specializing in drama/theater studies, comparative literature and gender studies, Prof.
Dr. Tal Becker at Occidental College
The 2:30 p.m. lecture in Choi Auditorium on the Occidental campus is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Book Talk: "It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America"
David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author of The Making of Donald Trump. He is a former president of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE). He has been a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC, Democracy Now and NPR’s Morning Edition and was a consultant for the Netflix series “House of Cards.”
Critical Theory & Social Justice Senior Comprehensives
Sam Clendenning Axiomatics in the Undoing and Reinvention of Hospitality
Will Dean Body/Camera: Shooting Blackness
Marcus Forbes The Poster; Force and Flow in the Formation of the Black Ballplayer: A Deleuzian Analysis
Miki Konishi Statelessness in Japan: Experience and Biopolitical Management
"Fighting Tyranny": A May Day Talk with Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder is a leading American Historian and Public Intellectual in areas regarding European history, politics, and war. He is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997. Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2001, he held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He speaks five and reads ten European languages.
Muxeres en Movimiento/ Womxn in Movement
Through Walls: A Heritage Dialogue
Six female muralists share their vision and experiences participating in a cultural exchange in Cairo, Egypt and Los Angeles, USA., in collaboration with Avenue 50 Studio and Athar Lina Initiative.
Themes: Cultural heritage, female representation in the arts, gentrification, and how community is defined through creative practices in an increasingly digital age.
This event is free and open to the public.