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The Sorcery of Color: Race, Gender and Genocide in Brazil

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: History

LISA LARKIN NASCIMENTO, M.A., J.D., Ph.D, is author of several books inclduing works on Afro-Brazilian women. co-founder and director of the Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute (IPEAFRO) of Rio de Janeiro; political activists and wife and partner to Abdias do Nascimento, one of the most important Afro-Brazilian political organizer in the late 20th century. This lecture on the intersectionality of of race, and gender, highlights the role of women and exposes how the politics of gender has led to the massacre of black people in Brazilian.

Reading Natsume Soseki on the Right: Kokoro in Midcentury America

6:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, Japanese, and East Asian Studies

Brian Hurley assistant professor of Japanese literature, film & culture at Syracuse University

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Resourceful Khatuns: The Economic and Ritual Foundations of Royal Women's Power in Yuan China

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: History, Religion, and East Asian Studies

Ruth Dunnell, James P. Storer Professor of Asian History, Kenyon College

Axinn Center 219

Open to the Public

Istanbul and Beyond: Culinary Encounters in Modern Turkey

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: History and Professors of the Practice Program

Standing at the crossroads between the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia, Turkey boasts astonishingly rich and diverse culinary traditions. Journalist Robyn Eckhardt and her husband, photographer David Hagerman, have spent almost twenty years discovering the country’s very best dishes. Their work has appeared in Saveur, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, 1843 Magazine, and Travel + Leisure.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public