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Native Voices: Speaking with Virginia’s Federally Recognized Nations
- Saturday, March 14
- 1:30 to 3pm
Small Auditorium
Representatives from the seven federal recognized Tribal Nations across Virginia will come together for a panel discussing Indigenous culture and education, how policy impacts Indigenous communities, environmental impacts on Native lands, and key figures within these communities. Refreshments will be provided. This event is presented by The English Department, UVA’s Tribal Liasion Kody Grant, UVA’s Native and Indigenous Relations Committee, and Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach.
- Eurovision Week
Monday, March 16 through Thursday 3/19
The European Studies Department presents a week of programming devoted to the Eurovision Song Contest. This year marks the 70th anniversary of Eurovision, one of the most watched television events in the world. Eurovision Week explores Eurovision's history, politics, culture, and music through a series of lectures, roundtables, and performances.- Monday 3/16: "Do You Speak Eurovision?"
- Public lecture by Ivan Raykoff (The New School). Discover the history and music of the Eurovision Song Contest.
- 5:00pm in Monroe 130 - Reception to follow
- Tuesday 3/17: "Behind the Music" Roundtable with UVA faculty.
- Explore the stories behind Eurovision's biggest hits and scandals.
- 12:00pm in Gibson 341 - Lunch provided
- Wednesday 3/18: Eurovision Clip Show
- Watch the best, and worst, performances from 70 years of Eurovision
- 6:30pm in the Language Commons (New Cabell 298) – free Dinner
- Thursday 3/19: "Eurovision for All?"
- Q&A with Catherine Baker (Hull University) and Dean Vuletic (author of Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest). Discuss the biggest challenges facing Eurovision today.
- 12:30pm in Gibson 341 - Lunch provided
- Thursday 3/19: Eurovision Karaoke
- Belt out your favorite Eurovision songs - and win prizes!
- 6:00pm in the French House (1404 JPA) - Free pizza
- Digital Humanities Speaker Series with Professor Angel Parham Layered Memories: History in One Square Block
- Thursday, March 19
- 11:00am to 12:30pm
Scholars' Lab Common Room Shannon 308
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You're invited to the next installment of our digital humanities speaker series, brought to you by IATH and Scholars' Lab, both of the Library's DH Center! These are Center fellows' work-in-progress presentations with a friendly student, faculty, and staff audience, in the main space of the Scholars’ Lab, 308 Shannon Library. All are welcome, and lunch will be served. Join fo a presentation by Angel Parham (Sociology), along with Shaheen Alikhan (Research Assistant), and Lauren Massari (IATH), on her in-progress Fellowship project, Layered Memories: History in One Square Block. The project explores how we can digitally represent the physical and social transformation of three sites in New Orleans over three centuries, revealing everyday histories that have been forgotten, submerged, or only very partially remembered. This event is co-sponsored by the UVA Department of Sociology.
- Moloka'i Bound Film Screening & Talk with Alika Tengan
- Wednesday, March 18
- 5:30pm to 9pm
Campbell Hall 160
Join American Studies for a film screening and conversation with Moloka'i Bound’s director, Alika Tengan. Alika Tengan is a Native Hawaiian/Asian American writer-director based out of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, whose short films Mauka to Makai and Moloka’i Bound have garnered multiple awards including “Best Short” at ImagineNATIVE – which granted them Oscar Consideration for the 2021 Academy Awards. The Molokaʻi Bound short film inspired a feature-length adaptation which was selected by Google and Array with full production funding. Alika continues to focus on Native Hawaiian narratives, with a commitment to uplifting the Pacific Islander filmmaking community.
- Layered Memories: History in One Square Block
- Thursday, March 19
- 11am to 12:30pm
Scholars' Lab Common Room, Shannon Library 308
Please join us for the next installment of our digital humanities speaker series, brought to you by IATH and Scholars' Lab, both of the Library's DH Center. These are Center fellows' work-in-progress presentations with a friendly student, faculty, and staff audience, in the main space of the Scholars’ Lab, 308 Shannon Library. All are welcome, and lunch will be served. Join us for a presentation by Angel Parham (Sociology), along with Shaheen Alikhan (Research Assistant), and Lauren Massari (IATH), on her in-progress Fellowship project, Layered Memories: History in One Square Block. The project explores how we can digitally represent the physical and social transformation of three sites in New Orleans over three centuries, revealing everyday histories that have been forgotten, submerged, or only very partially remembered. Special thanks to our co-sponsor for this event, the UVA Department of Sociology.
- Chinese Diplomacy on the Ground: Northeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century
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Friday, March 20
- 3:15pm to 4:30pm
Monroe 118
This event explores how Chinese diplomacy worked in Northwest Asia in the early 15th century, specifically exploring the stories of recent Korean and Manchurian envoys for the Ming dynasty. This event is presented by the UVA East Asia Center.
- Graduate Student Forum at the BSUVA Annual Meeting
- Friday, March 20
- 4pm to 5:30pm
Harrison/Small Auditorium
On Friday, March 20, at 4:00 p.m., the Bibliographical Society of UVA will be holding its Annual Meeting in the auditorium of the Harrison/Small Library. The featured event is a Graduate Forum, with these three speakers: Jack Wallace (English) on “Reading Heraldry Bibliographically” Brenna McWhorter (Art History) on “The Bibliographical World of Francesco Giuntini’s Astrological Tractatus (1570)” Lucas Heck (English) on “The Publishing History of Confederate Col. Mosby’s Memoirs” The winners of the 14th round of Battestin Fellowships, as well as the winners of the 56th Book Collecting Contest will be announced during the Business portion of the meeting. A reception at the Rare Book School will follow the meeting. The Annual Meeting of the BSUVA is an event of the Virginia Festival of the Book.
- MELSAC Speaker Series, "When Black is White, and Empty is Full"
- Tuesday, March 24
- 3:30pm to 6:30pm
NCH 144
As part of the MESALC Speaker Series, Professor Shankar Nair will be presenting "When Black is White, and Empty is Full: Ambiguity and Amphibology in Amir Khusraw's Dibachah” at 3:30 PM on Tuesday March 24th in NCH 144. This talk explores the extraordinarily dense wordplay at play in Khusraw’s celebrated preface to his third poetic collection, the Dībāchah-i Ghurrat al-kamāl (Preface to the New Moon of Perfection), itself a landmark treatise on poetics and literary criticism.
- Writing the Object, Writing the World
- Wednesday, March 25
- 5:30pm
Campbell Hall 160
Dr. Jennifer Raab will deliver the keynote lecture for the symposium One and Done: Single Object Studies in which Art and Architectural History graduate students present research centered around a singular object. In this lecture, Dr. Raab will focus on her recent publication Relics of War: The History of a Photograph which examines how one photograph—carefully staged by Clara Barton through acts of collecting, naming, and labeling—transformed salvaged artifacts from a Civil War prison camp into material testimony, serving as both evidence of absence and witness to wartime suffering. The lecture will also reflect more broadly on photography, political violence, and cultural memory, as well as Dr. Raab’s methodological commitment to single object writing.
- Gender & Tech Online Talk Series: Immigration and Techno-authoritarianism
- Thursday, March 26
- 10am to 11:15am, EDT
Online - Zoom
The Gender & Tech Online Talk Series brings together leading scholars, advocates, and practitioners to discuss the intersections of gender, technology, democracy and human rights. It critically examines how digital platforms and technologies impact women, queer and gender-diverse individuals while exploring pathways for more inclusive, rights-focused digital governance frameworks. In this session, we will discuss the role of digital technologies in the production and expansion of surveillance networks that currently impact fundamental rights, enshrine authoritarian practices in public services and processes, and deepen social inequalities worldwide. Free and open to all.
- University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Symposium
- Friday, March 27 & Saturday March 28
- Friday, 8am to 5:30pm
Saturday, 9am to 6:30pm
The Graduate Symposium is an interdisciplinary event inviting graduate students working in the arts and humanities across Virginia and beyond to share their research on a centralizing theme. This year, our panelists will consider how the theme "Memory" operates in their research, from questions of institutional remembrance practices, to how landscape holds memory, to literary narrative, and more. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Tim Machan from the University of Notre Dame, will also take up this topic in a talk on how, when, and why languages are first written down.
- ‘Love, All’: Tending the Tradition: A Retirement Conference and Celebration in Honor of Deborah E. McDowell
- Friday, May 22 & Saturday, May 23
- 9am to 5pm
Minor Hall 125
An event honoring the career of Deborah E. McDowell, "Love All": Tending the Tradition celebrates McDowell's intellectual production, trailblazing leadership, and groundbreaking contributions to the field of African American literary studies and Black feminism as a scholar, editor, mentor, colleague, and friend. This conference gathers the generations of scholars to share papers focused on the vast impact of Deborah McDowell's work and legacy.
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