Talks

Studying Gentrification on One Block in DC: The Many Problems of Following People Around March 12, @ 2pm Watch Recording Speaker Dr. Johanna Bockman Associate Professor of Global Affairs at George Mason University This talk will explore Dr. Bockman's research on multiple globalizations and gentrification on one block in Washington, DC. Professor Johanna Bockman [...]

“I Want to Own the Plantations": Exploring DC Activist Kimi Gray's Public Housing Ownership Dream, Conservative Populism, and Austerity Politics in the 1980s November 9, @ 12pm - 2pm Please consider supporting our partners, The Humanities Initiative at this excellent talk led by Dr. Rosemary Ndubuizu! The Humanities Initiative is funded by M.O.L.D/ Mellon Foundation. [...]

Black Ecofeminism and Abolitionist Ecology October 12, @ 12pm - 2pm The Humanities Initiative, funded by M.O.L.D./ Mellon Foundation, invites you to a talk by Jennifer James, Associate Professor in the English department at the George Washington university. Light refreshments will be served. About the speaker: Jennifer James is the author of A Freedom Bought [...]