Spring 2016 Scripps College Humanities Institute We Are the Ones PANDORA L. THOMAS Co-founder of Earthseed Consulting Thursday, February 11, 7:30pm Balch Auditorium Art to the Rescue: Cultural Agents Take You By Surprise DORIS SOMMER Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish, Harvard University GEORGE LIPSITZ American Studies Scholar and Professor in the Department of Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara Thursday, February 18, 7:30pm Balch Auditorium The “Culture” of Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of Knowledge CHANDAN REDDY Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Washington Thursday, March 3, 7:30pm Balch Auditorium Feminist Emergencies: Imperial War and Gender Justice Movements from Palestine and Lebanon to Chicago and Detroit NADINE NABER Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago Thursday, April 14, 7:30pm Balch Auditorium Citizen: A Reading and Conversation with Claudia Rankine CLAUDIA RANKINE Aerol Arnold Chair of English, University of Southern California Thursday, April 21, 7:30pm Garrison Theater Public Lectures For more information: http://www.scrippscollege.edu/hi Follow us on Twitter: #ScrippsHum [email protected] (909) 621-8237 SCR Approved 1/16 MARCOM This past fall, the Humanities Institute sought to confront some of the devastating effects of the intersecting forms of violence committed against people of marginalized identities in the contemporary United States. In the face of these crises, there are people doing tremendous work of intervention, agitation, and resistance—work that is constant, multifaceted, simultaneous, and that perseveres. This spring, the Humanities Institute welcomes scholars, artists, activists, dancers, poets, writers, and musicians who are using their intellect and talents to further the discussions of systemic and overt violence. As agents of change, they further the urgent and necessary work of dismantling systems of inequality and social injustice, and they inspire the activism and calls for social justice that will better shape our world. Hao Huang Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music and Professor of Music Director, Humanities Institute Adrian Quintanar Assistant to the Humanities Institute Director Humanities Institute Steering Committee, 2015–16 Piya Chatterjee, Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies and Chair of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department Lara Deeb, Chair, Department of Anthropology, and Professor of Anthropology Martha Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies David Roselli, Associate Professor of Classics Co-sponsored by the Scripps College Office of Public Events and Community Program Tuesday Noon Academy Lectures Tuesdays at 12:15pm in the Hampton Room, Malott Commons March 22: Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Creative Nonviolence In and After Violence: From Coexistence to Reconciliation MICHAEL SPEZIO Associate Professor of Psychology, Scripps College March 29: State and Societal Violence to Children RIVKA WEINBERG Associate Professor of Philosophy, Scripps College April 5: Race/Riot/Rebellion: Or, How America Came to Regard Black Equality as a Violation of White Rights MARK GOLUB Associate Professor of Politics, Scripps College Workshops for Scripps Students Only Reservations required in advance Resistance and Interventions: The Writer in Place SESSHU FOSTER Poet and Educator Thursday, January 28, 4:15–5:30pm, Vita Nova Hall Movement Workshop ANANYA CHATTERJEA Professor of Dance, University of Minnesota Monday, February 8, 6:30pm, Richardson Dance Studio Face to Face: Radical Futures for Black and Indigenous Solidarity ASIYAHOLA SANKARA Black Lives Matter Activist Thursday, February 25, 4:15–5:30pm, Vita Nova Hall I Need IX: A Civil Rights Framework for Ending Gender-Based Violence MAHROH JAHANGIRI and ZOE RIDOLFI-STARR Contributors to knowyourix.org Thursday, March 24, 4:00–6:00pm, Vita Nova Hall To All Relations Dance Workshop with NOBUKO MIYAMOTO Artistic Director of Great Leap Thursday, April 28, 4:15–6:35pm, Richardson Dance Studio Sexual Assault Prevention and Support RIMA SHAH Director of EmPOWER Center Tuesday, May 3, 4:15–5:30pm, Vita Nova Hall Performance ANANYA DANCE THEATRE Presents Roktim: Nurture Incarnadine Saturday, February 6, 7:30pm Garrison Theater