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Week of Events
Monday, June 24, 2024
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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
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Virtual EventJune 25, 2024 -Finding Freedom in Physics
Virtual Event
Finding Freedom in Physics
There are a number of works written by leading researchers that “popularize” physics to make it accessible to a general audience. One such text is “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” by Carlo Rovelli which takes the reader through a tour of 20th Century physics leading up to the author's contributions to quantum understanding which is ... Read more
Free
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
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Thursday, June 27, 2024
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Virtual EventJune 27, 2024 -Are You Mad Like Me? : Reimagining Psych Cemetery Spaces
Virtual Event
Are You Mad Like Me? : Reimagining Psych Cemetery Spaces
"Are you mad like me? / Have you seized back your dreams / in the fists of your crumpled wings?" In this proof-of-concept performance-lecture, spoken word poet, sci-fi writer, and performance activist Steven T. Licardi introduces us to the remains of several state hospital cemeteries scattered around the United States and abroad. He will be ... Read more
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Friday, June 28, 2024
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Virtual EventJune 28, 2024 -Discord and Harmony: The Struggle for Freedom in the USA Through Blues, Jazz, Soul and Hip-Hop
Virtual Event
Discord and Harmony: The Struggle for Freedom in the USA Through Blues, Jazz, Soul and Hip-Hop
At 8pm ET/ 5pm PT: This will be a look at—and a listen to—the role African American music has played in embodying and inspiring the ongoing struggle for freedom and full equality in the U.S.A. The session will be a mix of music video clips (Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Stevie Wonder, among others) and ... Read more
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Saturday, June 29, 2024
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Hybrid EventJune 29, 2024 -Freedom-Makers: Maroons and the Underground Railroad
Hybrid Event
Freedom-Makers: Maroons and the Underground Railroad
This hybrid offering will be an in-person/virtual visit to the "Underground Railroad Tree" in the Guilford Woods of North Carolina. The 300-year-old Tulip Poplar tree is a living monument and witness to the freedom-seekers who were part of this eastern seaboard launching point of the Underground Railroad during the early 19th century. The great tree ... Read more
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Sunday, June 30, 2024
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Virtual EventJune 30, 2024 -Black Populism in the New South: Post-Reconstruction Movement-Making
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Virtual EventJune 30, 2024 -Poetics of Freedom: A Poetry Reading with Christian Aldana, Rohan Zhou-Lee, and Ashna Ali
Virtual Event
Black Populism in the New South: Post-Reconstruction Movement-Making
1pm PT/ 4pm ET. Read more for zoom link. In the decade following the collapse of Reconstruction a new movement arose in the South comprising black farmers, sharecroppers, and agrarian workers—a Black Populist movement. Organized through the Colored Farmers Alliance, among other black-led labor groups, mutual aid associations, and black churches—and then expressed through the People’s ... Read more
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Virtual Event
Poetics of Freedom: A Poetry Reading with Christian Aldana, Rohan Zhou-Lee, and Ashna Ali
Three poets come together to share their work and in a short moderated discussion, ask one another questions about each other's poetry, the poetics of freedom, and the relationship between poetry, resistance, and liberation 2024 America. The panel discussion will be moderated by Raquell Holmes from improvscience. Rohan Zhou-Lee, pronouns They/Siya/祂 (Tā) is a Queer/Non-Binary ... Read more
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