Xiaochang Li (Stanford)
University Club Room 212, 432 E. Campus Mall (IRH Conference Room) @ 9:00 am
Starting in the 1970s, a team of researchers at IBM spearheaded efforts to reorient the field of automatic speech recognition, turning it away from study and simulation of human perception, reason, and expertise and toward …
Golnar Nikpour (Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College)
Room 313, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
This talk traces the making of the carceral state in Iran, the resulting incarceration of millions of people over several decades, responses by Iranians and non-Iranians alike to these new prisons, and the global links inherent to this expansive state project.
313 University Club Building @ 12:00 pm
Please join the members of this year’s PUBLIC ASIAN STUDIES Mellon-Borghesi Workshop to reflect on on a year of thinking about the urgency and challenges of activist scholarship, how to uplift subaltern voices and diasporas, …
Online: see QR code in poster @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Speakers: Tuong Vu, thvu@uoregon.edu, Vietnam-in-the-World Project (VIEW) Chien-Kai Chen, chenc@rhodes.edu, Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) Stan Hok-Wui Wong, Hok.Wong@stthom.edu and Maggie Shum, mps6969@psu.edu, Global Research Association of Politics in Hong Kong (GRAPH), Moderator: Nhu Truong The webinar will address the intersection of research as well as “PUBLIC” …
Dr Ather Zia, University of Northern Colorado
Via zoom: https://bit.ly/3F1CzDv @ 5:30 pm
The Borghesi Mellon Workshop on Public Asian Studies linked here is excited to have Dr Ather Zia for an online talk on human rights in Kashmir for Spring 2025. Dr Zia is a political anthropologist, poet, short fiction writer, and columnist. She …
Zoom @ 12:30 pm
The reemergence of psychedelic research in universities comes with a robust historical narrative that blames politicians for the rise and fall of scientific interest in these substances.
DC Smith Greenhouse 465 Babcock Dr, Madison, WI 53706 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Join the Borghesi-Mellon Psychedelic Pasts, Presents, and Futures Workshop Group at the DC Smith Greenhouse for a self-guided tour as we celebrate Environmental History Week, Earth Fest, Bicycle Day, 420, interdependence, and health!
Wisconsin History Society (registration required) @ 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
How do institutional archives preserve lives? What does it mean to archive Latinx activisms? What kind of stories do Latinx archives tell us?
Archives in the Americas Workshop
Memorial Library - Special Collections, Room 984 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Join us in an exploration of books, artist’ books and other artifacts that engage with histories of migration in the Americas throughout history —with an emphasis on Latinx and Latin American journeys. Stop by anytime and for the amount of time you want!
Helen C White 6191 - Conference Room @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Join the Abolition and Refuge Borghesi-Mellon Workshop for a roundtable discussion about challenges and possibilities in working at the intersection of abolitionist politics, organizing, and Asian American Studies. The panelists will be in conversation with their research, as well as critical border studies and refugee studies.
