The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace welcomes everyone back to Spring Semester 2022. We want to welcome all students back to campus and wish you all a safe, happy, and healthy semester.
We are hopeful that as things start to reopen we will be able to hold in person events again. However, for the moment, all of our events will be held online only as we continue to operate in a time of uncertainty. We are committed to ensuring the safety of our wider community and holding our events in a virtual format allows us to do this.
Our program of events begins on Tuesday February 8th at 2pm, with Professor Yohuru Williams and his lecture, Simply Because People Refuse to See: Black Lives Matter in Historical Context. In this presentation, Professor Williams explores the history of the struggle for racial equality in the United States from the Civil Rights era through the contemporary Black Lives Matter Movement with an exploration of key episodes and moments in U.S. History.
On March 15th, at 2pm, Professor Anna Agathangelou will giver her presentation on Decolonial and Radical Planetary Futures: Defatalizing Colonial Literacy and Imagination. In this presentation, Professor Agathangelou will examine the entwinement of time, coloniality, enslavement and global racial capital. Inspired by radical decolonial visions and experiments and from the vantage point of black, indigenous, and anti-capitalist feminists she will argue that it is key to grapple with contemporary fatalisms that come in the form of critical environmentalisms, reproductive fascisms and innovative technoscientific capitalism.
You can find out more information about these lectures and register to attend on our website.
We also have other exciting events planned for later in the semester so be sure to follow us on social media @bahaichair to stay updated on all we have planned.
We wish all students a successful academic semester and hope to virtually ‘see’ you at our events!
About the Author:
Kate Seaman is the Assistant Director to the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace where she supports the research activities of the Chair. Kate is interested in understanding normative changes at the global level and how these changes impact on the creation of peace.
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