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December 3, 2024 / 5:30 - 7:30 PM / FPH East Lecture Hall
Special Screening + Live Discussion "The US National Security State and the Trump Presidency"
Join us for a discussion with Professor Michael Klare and Omar Dahi on the foreign policy implications of the US elections. The event will kick off with a special screening of a 10-minute tutorial video that explores the scale, influence, and objectives of the U.S. National Security State, often referred to as the U.S. War Machine. What is the U.S. National Security State’s size and reach? What are its main components? What are the overarching principles it seeks to achieve?
The video, produced by the Security in Context research network, was written and narrated by Professor Michael Klare and animated by Hampshire alumni Owen Neuburger.
Following the screening, Professor Klare and Dahi will talk briefly about the making of the video and then move to an open discussion and Q&A of what the US and the world can expect from Trump's foreign policy in the coming years.
Michael Klare is Five College Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association at Hampshire College. With a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute, Klare has written extensively on U.S. military policy, international peace, security affairs, and resource politics. Author of fifteen books, including Resource Wars (2001) and All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (2019), Klare’s work has appeared in Arms Control Today, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, and Scientific American, among many others.
Omar S. Dahi is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and international affairs. Dahi also serves as associate editor of Review of Social Economy, a co-editor at the e-zine Jadaliyya, and is a founding member of the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies within the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). He has been a lead expert on the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of West Asia's National Agenda for the Future of Syria program.
This event is affiliated with the In/Justice LC.
Past Events
Past Events
September 10, 2024 / 9-10:30PM / Taylor Room, Kern Center
First Presidential Debate Watch Party
A watch party for Viveca Greene’s students, who are exploring ideas of truth, post-truth, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and more, especially in the ways they relate to the upcoming election. As a part of their classes, students are required to watch the debate and apply course readings and concepts to the topics discussed. This watch party has been opened up to similar courses taught by other professors which cover similar material.
This event is affiliated with the Media and Technology LC.
September 18, 2024 / 6 PM / FPH West Lecture Hall
Film Screening: Where Olive Trees Weep
Where Olive Trees Weep is a documentary peering into the lives of journalists, activists, and a doctor living in and experiencing the trauma of an Israel-occupied Palestine. Aligning with Prof. Nathalie Arnold’s optional screenings for the course Daily Life in Palestine, this screening is open to the wider campus community to explore themes of Israeli cruelty and Palestinian resilience.
This event is affiliated with the Time and Narrative LC.
October 7, 2024 / 10:30-11:40 AM / Jerome Liebling Center 120
Conversaciones Centrales: Artists of the Central American Diaspora, PT.1
An artist talk and Q&A with two Central American diaspora artists to be in conversation with the campus community. Topics such as diaspora studies, migration, displacement, race, civil war, amongst other things, will be touched on while the artists speak on their work.
Galileo Gonzalez is a visual artist from Southeast Los Angeles, now based in San Antonio. He earned his BFA in Drawing & Painting from California State University, Long Beach, in 2017. His art explores cultural identity, drawing on his Salvadoran heritage, the diverse influences of Los Angeles, and his experiences in San Antonio. Gonzalez's work has been featured in exhibitions nationwide, including at the Museum of Latin American Art, The Stamp Gallery, and Munzón Gallery. His pieces are part of the Cerritos College and Enrique Serrato collections. Aída Esmeralda is a queer Salvi poet and interdisciplinary artist from the DM(V). Her writing practice grapples with the legacy of war and US interventionism in Central America, family and cultural memory, medicine and health, dislocation and displacement, fractured ecosystems and landscapes, and language and "official" documentation.
This event is affiliated with the In/Justice LC.
October 16th, 2024 /2:40-3:40 / Jerome Liebling Center 120
BIPOC Zines & Photobook Artists
Themselves Press/Charlie C. Camuglia will be speaking (via zoom) about their own self publishing projects, their photo zine collections, and their own photography projects. Themselves Press aims to make visual art more conversational by producing projects that mix different mediums, voices, and styles. This press focuses on exhibiting unique visual narratives from poc and queer artists with distinct perspectives of modern life. Themselves is also a zine print shop that wants to help make self publishing art more accessible through sliding scale printing prices, affordable design services, and one on one instruction to help others diy. all zines are printed and assembled in a chicago basement. As a part of Veronica Melendez’s course, Photography Zines, students are invited to be in conversation with these artists who will give insight to the realities of being a working artist who is also a queer person of color.
This event is affiliated with the In/Justice LC.
October 16, 2024 / 7:00-9:00 PM / Jerome Liebling Center 120
Join us for an hour of short personal films followed by a Zoom Q&A with Filmmaker Grace Mitchell in JLC 120.
Shorts by Grace Mitchell
Grace Mitchell is a filmmaker, musician, and educator living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her work has screened both nationally & abroad at festivals such as FRACTO Berlin, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, and European Media Art Festival. Mitchell co-runs Underscore, an artist-run project space, screening room, and queer operation emphasizing risk-taking in art, film, installation and performance. This event will be composed of a screening of her short films in the first hour and a remote Q & A with the artist for the second hour.
This event is affiliated with the Time & Narrative LC.
October 25, 2024 / 1:00-3:00 PM / Center for Design
Press Cider With Local Apples
In the face of climate change, finding joy in local, regenerative tree crops is imperative. By learning to process food that is already being produced but is not being consumed (ie. wild apples and the apples from the defunct orchard on Hampshire campus) we can minimize the strain on the local food systems and connect with the ecosystem that surrounds us. Hampshire Alum Matt Kaminsky (Gnarly Pippins) will give a talk about his work with local wild apples and assist in turning wild apples into delicious apple cider using the cider press built by IACC-211 Farm Tools.
This event is affiliated with the Environments and Change LC.
October 22, 2024 / 10:30AM / FPH West Lecture Hall (speaker on Zoom)
Trans Mental Health and Gender-Affirming Therapy
Mick Rehrig, a white, queer and trans-identified therapist and expert in trans mental health, discusses how cisnormativity and institutionalized transphobia impact trans/non-binary people, and shares approaches to therapy that address trauma and support well-being with trans/non-binary clients.
This event is affiliated with the In/Justice LC.
October 23, 2024 / 10:30-11:45 AM / Jerome Liebling Center 120
Conversaciones Centrales: Artists of the Central American Diaspora, PT.3
An artist talk and Q&A with a Central American diaspora artist to be in conversation with the campus community. Topics such as diaspora studies, migration, displacement, race, civil war, amongst other things, will be touched on while the artists speak on their work. Eddy Leonel Aldana is a Guatemalan-American photographer and artist from Clarksburg, Maryland. He received his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2022 and received his BFA in in Fine Art Photography from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University in 2017. His photographic work is based around memory, loss, and the importance of family. His video work focuses on his family’s place in the Guatemalan diaspora, his parents migration to the United States from Guatemala, deportation and the short and long term effects these have on a family. He is currently based out of Bennington, Vermont where he is the Technical Instructor of Photography at Bennington College.
This event is affiliated with the In/Justice LC.
October 23, 2024 / 2:45-3:50 PM / Jerom Liebling Center 120
Conversaciones Centrales: Artists of the Central American Diaspora, PT. 2
A visiting artist in person will be speaking about their own self publishing projects, their photo zine collections, and their own photography projects. As a part of Veronica Melendez’s course, Photography Zines, students will be allowed an opportunity to be in conversation with these artists who will give insight to the realities of being a working artist who is also an immigrant / person of color / first gen. Juan Vicente Madrid is a photographer and book artist based in the Hudson Valley of New York. He earned his BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology and was the lab manager at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He has worked as a freelance photographer for clients including VICE, Bloomberg Businessweek, Topic, and Society Magazine (France) and teaches workshops centered around zine and bookmaking. He is one of the members of the publish-ing collective Los Sumergidos, whose first collaborative photo-text book Los Sumergidos was shortlisted at PHotoESPAÑA and Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2019.
This event is affiliated with the In/Justice LC.
October 24, 2024 / 2:30-3:50 PM / Music Recital Hall, Music Building
Guest Lecture/Performance/Q&A: Matt Lorenz ("The Suitcase Junket")
Matt Lorenz (Hampshire alum, 01) is a nationally renown multi-instrumentalist/vocalist, composer, and performer. He's also an instrument builder whose "adaptive instrument design" makes use of found objects, some of which he builds to assist disabled performers. Lorenz will be a guest in Becky Miller’s class, Writing About Music. Taking place in the Music Recital Hall, Matt Lorenz' lecture/demonstration will include performances, discussion, and Q&A from the students.
This event is affiliated with the Time and Narrative LC.
October 29, 2024 / 12:00-2:00 PM / TBD
Brown Bag Research Lunch in Transnational Black Studies by Pierre-Antoine Vettorello
Pierre-Antoine Vettorello is a French fashion designer and researcher, currently doing his PhD research in Antwerp, Belgium. His PhD, which addresses questions at the intersection of Global Black Studies, Black European Studies, African Studies, and Textile and Fashion Studies, takes the form of archival and other research, including creative practice and critical fabulation. It directly addresses the urgent challenge question for In/Justice by tracing the history of a Senegalese woman who dared, through her own actions, to contest white supremacy and by modeling innovative research methodologies in Black Studies. It also expands our engagement with that question beyond a US-centric frame. Black European Studies is a nascent and contested field -- one which is meeting with growing resistance in Europe, as anti-immigrant sentiment, xenophobia, and racism are all increasing exponentially and as white supremacy is shaping postcolonial European identities more explicitly than ever before. His visit to Jennifer Bajorek’s course, Special Topics: The Photograph, and to the Hampshire campus for a public brown-bag lunch talk will give the entire Five College community a chance to be exposed to exciting research in the context of these larger debates about Blackness and Black identities in Europe.
This event is affiliated with the In/Justice LC.
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