Abstract: Immigration and border security are routinely identified as two of the most important
issues in the current presidential election cycle. This is because the Trump campaign
has used them as a brush with which to paint the policies supported by President Biden
and Vice President Kamala Harris as dangerous threats, and because the migrant situation
itself—in the United States, throughout the Americas, and around the world—is changing
rapidly. Meanwhile, immigrant rights advocates are frustrated that Democrats, who
are supposed to be their allies, seem to be caving to Republican pressure to take
punitive action. While this moment is in some ways unique in American history, it
also echoes earlier moments. In this public lecture, Geraldo Cadava will provide the
historical context necessary for understanding what we’re witnessing today.
Public Lecture: Data Science for Social Justice – Feb. 1, 5:30-7:00, WMBB 231 with
Reception. ABSTRACT: Data science impacts every facet of our lives: from marketing to finance to voting
to facial recognition to medical care. What happens if data science develops technology
that amplifies societal biases and blatant racism? Dr. Washington will share her
vision of how we can all contribute to bringing true validity into data science.
Joint meeting with SCHC 393 (Kitzie) and AFAM 200 (Deas) Thursday, 2/1, 11:40-12:55, Harper 320
STAT 530 (Habing) Thursday, 2/1, 1:15-2:30, Close-Hipp 350
Public Lecture: Data Science for Social Justice Thursday, 2/1, 5:30-7:00, WMBB 231 including reception. ABSTRACT: Data science impacts every facet of our lives: from marketing to finance to voting
to facial recognition to medical care. What happens if data science develops technology
that amplifies societal biases and blatant racism? Dr. Washington will share her vision
of how we can all contribute to bringing true validity into data science.
Meeting with MATH, STAT, CEC student groups Friday, 2/2, 12:30-3:00 (location and other details TBD)
Math Colloquium: How the Data-Driven Workforce is Shaping Mathematics in Higher Education Friday, 2/2, 3:30-4:30, LeConte 444 ABSTRACT: While data science is in high demand both in research and in the workplace, what
is needed to prepare students for a data-driven workforce remains unclear. The workforce,
including academia, industry, and government, continues to make innovative advancements
via data-driven approaches. The priorities of the workforce may differ by sector,
yet demand assurance of global competitiveness in an evolving landscape. This talk
will explore how mathematics academic programs can meet these priorities by re-envisioning
how to equip students to lead data-driven innovations in academia, industry, and government.
Dr. Gabrielle Foreman, February 23 and 24, 2023. Public lecture on Edgefield Potter David Drake on Feb 23 at 4:30-5:45 in the Lumpkin Auditorium. Book signing following panel discussion.
8:30 to 9:45 am Class visit: Topic: “Writing about Slavery/Teaching about Slavery:
This Might Help” Course: Introduction to Southern Studies 1580-1900 Professor: Dr. Jennifer Gunter Department: Southern Studies Location: Close Hipp Building, room 363
1:15 to 2:30 pm Class visit: Topic: “Writing about Slavery/Teaching about Slavery:
This Might Help” Course: AFAM 200 Freedom Papers: Narratives of Race and Nation (An America Founding
Documents core course requirement) Professor: Dr. Rod Taylor Department of African American Studies Location: Petigru College, room 212
4:30 to 5:45 pm Public Lecture: His Page Was Clay: The Artistic Legacies of the Poet and Potter, David Drake Speakers: Gabrielle Foreman and Glenis Redmond Close-Hipp Building, Room 830, Lumpkin Auditorium
Welcome by Professor Dianne Johnson-Feelings Moderated conversation by Dr. Abbe Schriber, Assistant Professor of African American
Studies and Art History
2:30 to 3:30 pm: “Why Digital Histories and Research Matter” Open invitation to up to twenty students who will register via Eventbrite Location: CAS Computer Center (PC Lab), Gambrell Hall room 003A
Please visit Eventbrite to register for this free workshop. Space is limited to 20 attendees.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the many partners:
Ken Onois the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Virginia and
former Vice President of the American Mathematical Society. He holds two endowed professorships;
he is the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics, and the Marvin Rosenblum Professor
of Mathematics. He is presently the Chair of Mathematics in the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. He is also a film producer and member of the board
of the Infinity Arts Foundation.
9:40 to 10:30am: Class Visit to MATH 574 Gambrell 205
12:00 to - 1:30pm: Lunch talk: “Tales from a living breathing mathematician” Pi Mu Epsilon/Gamecock Math Club Petigru 108
4:30 to 5:30pm: Mathematics Colloquium: “Variants of Lehmer's Conjecture on Ramanujan's
tau-function” Petigru 108
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the many partners:
Department of Mathematics
School of Visual Art and Design
Film and Media Studies
Media Arts
College of Arts and Sciences
South Carolina Honors College
Adriana Zavala, February 24-25, 2022
Adriana Zavala is a jointly appointed Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and
Architecture and Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts
University.
1:15-2:30: Visit to ARTH class "Twentieth Century Art: Art and Justice in the 20th
Century" (McMaster 214) “Latinx Art, History, and Institutions” In this workshop, I introduce students to some of my favorite contemporary artists.
We explore their cultural background and art, while also discussing Latinx art’s cultural
and political specificity and its flux in history and in relation to other art historical
categories like “American” art or “Latin American” art, as well as more specific group
identities like Chicana/o/x, Diasporican, Cuban-American, etc.
4:30-5:45: Public lecture: “Of bodies and borders”, McKissick Museum Theater This lecture examines works by Latin American-descended visual artists living in the
United States, that is to say Latinx artists, whose lives have been marked by and
whose works explore the violence of colonialism, empire, and the ongoing politicization
of borders. Through a reading of art works by Adriana Corral, Teresita Fernández,
Guadalupe Maravilla, Carlos Martiel, Sandy Rodriguez, and Juan Sánchez, I explore
how racialization as a violent form of social differentiation cannot be separated
from the critical study of geopolitical power. As a scholar of both Mexican and U.S.
Latinx art and visual culture, I will address the necessity of intersectional scholarship
and praxis, and the importance of generosity, care, and witnessing in these troubled
times. *Note: because of the topic of this lecture, some of the works presented can
be challenging for some audiences.
9:40-10:30am: Visit to GEOG 210 class “People, Places, and Environment” (Callcott
011) “Resurrecting Mexico-Tenochtitlan, 1521-2021” Modern-day Mexico City sits atop the ruins of the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan,
which was founded in 1325, overthrown by Spanish invaders in 1521 and demolished in
1523. While fragments, or spolia, of Tenochtitlan’s physical remains had been present
within the city’s urban fabric since the sixteenth century, new archaeological findings
at the turn of the 20th century—such as the definitive identification of the site
of great teocalli (temple pyramid), captivated the minds and imaginations of some
of the country’s most prominent nationalist thinkers from author and statesman Alfonso
Reyes, to anthropologist Manuel Gamio, architect Ignacio Marquina, and visual artists
Diego Rivera and Juan O’Gorman. This lecture will explore key moments and articulations
of the modern “resurrection” of Tenochtitlan and will invite the public to reflect
on what lessons the 2021 quincentennial of Tenochtitlan’s capture and destruction
offer for us today.
Noon: Lunch and Q&A at Carolina International House at Maxcy College (advance registration
required) Talk and Q&A on Frida Kahlo’s Creativity: Staging Art, Staging Life In this lecture I explore Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s creativity in the context of
the cultural renaissance that followed the Mexican Revolution. Springing from the
exhibition Frida Kahlo: Art Garden Life, which I curated at the New York Botanical
Garden (2015), I offer a close examination of several of the artist’s most important
paintings to explain how Kahlo’s self-adornment and the artful arrangement of her
home and garden were equally important modes of creative expression. The presentation
concludes by touching upon the ways that other artists, ranging from Diego Rivera
to photographers like Nickolas Muray and Lola Álvarez Bravo, collaborated with Kahlo
to facilitate the promotion of her art, her cultural politics, and her image.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the many partners:
