Co-Sponsored Events

Dr. Faye Gleisser

"Meet the Author"

Hosted by CAHI
March 5, 2025

Dr. Liv Furman

To be rescheduled due to weather advisory

Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, 12:00pm
Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union

In this artist talk, Dr. Liv Furman explores the connections between their embodied praxis of quilt-making, archiving, and storytelling, within the context of family, identity, and ancestral memory. By bringing together collage-making, auto-ethnographic storytelling, and quilt documentation, Dr. Furman creates a transdisciplinary dialogue. This talk will encourage you to reflect on identity-informed, arts-based methodologies and their potential for liberation in teaching, learning, and research.

Olivia "Liv" Furman, Ph.D. (they/them) is a Black non-binary womanist artist, educator, and researcher currently working on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples at Michigan State University. Their work currently explores the significance of engaging culturally informed literacies of dreaming, journaling, storytelling, and the arts within conceptualizations and practice of liberatory teaching, learning, and research. Their primary mediums include multimedia and digital collage, ceramics, quilting, and the written and spoken word. Liv is also an avid gardener, skater, singer, musician, and yoga apprentice. Liv is currently a Post-Doctoral scholar in the Department of African American and African Studies, and Assistant Project Director of the Quilt Index’s Black Diaspora Quilt History Project at Michigan State University.

Dr. Ada Cheng

"Loving Myself with/in a Thousand Cuts"

Sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program, Department of American Studies, and the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society.

September 30, 2024, 4:30-6:00pm
Bridgwaters Lounge, Neal Marshall Black Culture Center

Dr. Ada Cheng, 2024 Illinois Humanities Public Humanities Award Honoree, is a sociologist-turned artist, community builder, and changemaker. This storytelling performance, exploring the linkages of sexual assault, racialized misogyny, anti-Asian racism, and the complexity of being a queer Asian woman, will show how stories are a form of feminist theorizing and can be a powerful instrument for popular education, critical engagement and community-building. The performance will be about 50 minutes, followed by a dialogue facilitated by Dr. Cheng. Save the date and spread the word!

Dr. Benjamin Balthasar

"Diasporism Is 21st Century Communism: The US Jewish Left and Internationalism"

Organized by the Department of American Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society. 

Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, 11:00 am
Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union

Benjamin Balthaser is an associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University South Bend. He is the author of Anti-Imperialism Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War from University of Michigan Press, and Dedication, a personal history of growing up in a Jewish "red diaper" family from Partisan Press.