All Events
Organizing for the Long Haul: Avoiding Burnout, Organizing for Power
Jollene Levid
Online
What tools for sustainability have we inherited from our movement foremothers? How can we effectively address internal organizational collective conflict while simultaneously upholding a united front against our oppressors? Learn from a full-time organizer of 16 years about avoiding burnout and living with the organizer joy that we so deserve and fight daily to gain.
Race & Religion Series
Orientalism for (All) the Orientals! Studying Asian Religions in the Era of Neoliberal Multiculturalism
Marko Geslani
Online
For better or worse, the study of religion harbors one of the last great bastions of Orientalism: the academic study of Asia (and especially, of Asia's past). Despite numerous excavations of the imperial inheritance of religious studies, reflection on the afterlives of Orientalism in contemporary religious studies curricula has rarely been undertaken. Using the example of Hindu studies, this presentation describes religious studies pedagogy within the multicultural university as an assimilating project continuous with earlier Orientalist tendencies. I ask what it would mean to return the religious pasts of "Asia," not only to those selected by model minority discourse, but to the BIPOC erstwhile "primitives" effectively excluded by Orientalism.
Our Virtual Programming
This quarter, our virtual programming will be centered on framing and understanding this global health pandemic within a greater societal (in) justice context. We will be critically engaging in the following questions:
- What is mutual aid and what does communal care look like?
- How do/can we organize (virtually/remotely) given that we understand the need for liberation from structural oppression is greater now more than ever
- How do we prepare and uplift our communities (the most vulnerable and marginalized) to be better able to proactively care for themselves.
Cup of Culture
Parasite
MCC Theater
This psychological thriller directed by award-winning Bong Joon-Ho, follows a poor Korean family who scheme to become employed by a wealthy family and infiltrate their household by posing as unrelated, highly qualified individuals. 2019. 2h 12m
