Events

Dr. Yasmin Saikia is the Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies and Professor of History at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. Her recent book Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 (2011) has won numerous awards and been the subject of an international speaking tour.

Beginning in the thirteenth century, natural forces cooled Earth’s climate in a “Little Ice Age” that reached its chilliest point in the seventeenth century and, according to many scholars, destabilized societies around the world. Yet the precocious economy, unusual environment, and dynamic intellectual culture of the Dutch Republic in its seventeenth-century Golden Age allowed it to thrive as neighbouring societies unravelled.

History Speaker Series 2021-22

Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda

Dr Doreen Kembabazi

Postdoctoral researcher, Ghent University, Belgium

; PhD, African History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Friday 26 November, 10:00am Eastern time via Zoom

White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver is based on 360 Riot Walk, a 360 video walking tour that traces the history and route of the mob that attacked the Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities following the demonstration and parade organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League in Vancouver. Participants are led into the social and political environment of the time, where racialized communities were targeted  through legislated acts, as well as physical acts of exclusion and violence. 360 Riot Walk is a documentary, a mapping project, and an artwork.

About The Speaker

Henry Tsang is a visual and media artist based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples that is also known as Vancouver. His projects explore the spatial politics of history, language, community, food and cultural translation in relationship to place, taking the form of gallery exhibitions, pop-up street food offerings, 360 video walking tours, curated dinners, ephemeral and permanent public art, by employing video, photography, language, interactive media and convivial events.