September 20th, 2019 admin
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
7:00pm
UVM Davis Center, Silver Maple Ballroom
Over the last two years teachers from West Virginia to Los Angeles have gone on strike and won historic gains, fighting for better wages but also for the common good of the community.Professor Deepa Kumar, past-president of the Rutgers AAUP- AFT faculty union, will draw lessons for labor and higher education by discussing the historic contract victory at Rutgers in 2019.
Dr. Deepa Kumar is a Rutgers University professor and an award- winning scholar and activist. She is the recipient of the Dallas Smythe award for her engaged scholarship and the Georgina Smith award for her work on gender and race equity. She is the author of more than 80 journal articles, book chapters, and articles in independent and mainstream media.
Sponsored by
UVM’s English Department and United Academics
Endorsed by Global Justice Ecology Project, Peace and Justice Center, and Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans for Peace
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February 25th, 2019 admin
Murdered but Not Silenced: Rosa Luxemburg for the 21st Century
2-4pm, Saturday, April 6, 2019
UVM Fleming Museum, Lower Floor, Room 101
Speakers:
Helen Scott
Nancy Holmstrom
Alyssa Adamson
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To attend, please register online.
2019 marks the centenary of the murder of visionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, who fought to create a society based on justice and equality. Her legacy is very much alive in the political struggles of our own age. Three activists-scholars come together to address key elements of this inspiring revolutionary’s life and work.
Sponsored by the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series and the UVM English Department
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August 8th, 2018 admin
Being Young and Muslim in America
Thursday, September 6, 2018 @7pm
UVM Davis Center, Livak Ballroom
Moustafa Bayoumi is a Brooklyn College professor, journalist, book author, and radio and television commentator. He will discuss themes from his critically acclaimed book in light of recent challenges, especially the Trump Administration.
Sponsors:
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UVM Global and Regional Studies, UVM English Department, UVM Interfaith Center, UVM International Socialist Organization, UVM Middle East Studies, Students for Justice in Palestine, United Academics: AFT/AAUP, Will Miller Green Mountain Vets for Peace, Global Justice Ecology Project, Black Rose/Rosa Negra Burlington, Peace & Justice Center, Vermonters for Justice in Palestine
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November 3rd, 2017 admin
Reflections on Resistance to Occupation & Colonialism on the Centenary of the
Balfour Declaration
Thursday, November 9 @7pm
UVM Davis Center, Silver Maple Ballroom
Steve Salaita is a scholar, political commentator and activist. He is the author of 8 books, most recently, Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine. A former professor, Salaita now foucuses on political writing and organizing.
Sponsors:
Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, UVM International Socialist Organization, UVM Global and Regional Studies, Will Miller Green Mountain Vets for Peace, Global Justice Ecology Project, Black Rose/Rosa Negra Burlington, Peace & Justice Center, New Hampshire Palestine Education Network
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January 31st, 2017 admin
Thursday, February 23rd @ 7:00pm
UVM Davis Center Silver Maple Ballroom
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, assistant professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, writes about Black politics, social movements and racial inequality in the US and is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.
University of Vermont sponsors: Black Student Union • Center for Cultural Pluralism • College Undergraduates Not Tolerating Sexism • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies • English Department • Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies • Geography Department
Additional Sponsors: International Socialist Organization • Justice for Queer & Trans Students • Women of Color Coalition • Black Lives Matter VT • Black Rose/Rosa Negra Burlington • CCTV • Global Justice Ecology Project • Haymarket Books • Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans for Peace
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October 26th, 2016 admin
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 at 7:00pm
Livak Ballroom, UVM Davis Center (4th floor), Burlington
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, writer, and commentator. He has reported from around the world — from Colombia to Iraq. His most recent book is The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution.
Sponsors: English and Geography Departments, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Global and Regional Studies, Middle East Studies, United Academics, International Socialist Organization Burlington Chapter, ?Global Justice Ecology Project, Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans for Peace, Toward Freedom?
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March 9th, 2016 admin
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Indigenous People’s History and the Roots of America’s Endless Wars (pdf)
Join us for a history of the United States from the perspective of Indigenous peoples–centuries of aggressive settler-colonialism and Native Americans’ resistance–and its importance for understanding past and present U.S. foreign wars.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 at 7:30pm
Fleming Museum, Room 101, UVM Campus
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a longtime feminist, native rights, antiwar and antiracist activist. She is a teacher and the author of five books, including An Indigenous People’s History of the United States.
Sponsored by: the International Socialist Organization Burlington Chapter, United Academics, Toward Freedom, Global Justice Ecology Project, Will Miller Green Mountain Vets for Peace and the UVM Sociology Department.
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October 1st, 2015 admin
Dongping Han, professor at Warren Wilson College and author of The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village is the Fall 2015 guest speaker for the lecture series.
Thursday, October 15, 2015 @ 7pm
Livak Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM
Sponsored by: Departments of History, Economics, Geography, Asian Languages & Literature, and United Academics, AFT-AAUP
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April 12th, 2015 admin
Thursday, April 23, 2015
7-8:30pm
Davis Center, Silver Maple Ballroom
Sponsored by: Will MIller Social Justice Lecture Series, United Academics, UVM Department of English, James and Mary Brigham Buckam Fund.
Co-sponsored include: Green Mountain Veterans for Peace, Global Justice Ecology Project, International Socialist Organization
For accommodations contact Conference and Event Services at conferences@uvm.edu in advance of the event.
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September 7th, 2014 admin
The Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series presents Hari Kondabolu, a brilliant comedian who addresses political issues which outrage him and cuts through the polite talk around race, gender and colonialism.
Thursday, September 18th @ 7:30pm
ArtsRiot, 400 Pine Street, Burlington
Tickets: $15 in advance, $18 at the door
Learn more about Hari @ harikondabolu.com or on Facebook.
“Hari Kondabolu is one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today.” New York Times.
Hari Kondabolu is a Brooklyn-based, Queens-raised comic who the NY Times has called “one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today.” In March 2014, he released his debut standup album “Waiting for 2042? on indie-label Kill Rock Stars. He is currently NYU’s APA Institute’s “Artist in Residence” for the 2014-2015 Academic Year.
Hari has done standup on the Late Show with David Letterman ,Conan , Jimmy Kimmel Live, Live at Gotham and John Oliver’s New York Standup Show. His Comedy Central Presents half-hour television special debuted on the network in February 2011. He was also a writer and correspondent for the Chris Rock-produced Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FX.
In 2014, he was interviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR. A regular on the public radio circuit, he has also appeared on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Studio 360, Bullseye and Soundcheck and Q with Jian Ghomeshi. He has also appeared on popular podcasts like WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes and Too Beautiful to Live with Luke Burbank.
In the UK, Hari has established himself with appearances on BBC 3’sRussell Howard’s Good News, Live at the Electric and Channel 4’s 8 out 10 Cats. He also performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011.
He has also performed at such notable festivals as the HBO Comedy Festival, South by Southwest, Bumbershoot, Sasquatch, the Aspen Ideas Festival and Just for Laughs in Montreal and Chicago.
When in New York City, he co-hosts the mostly improvised talk show The Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Project with his younger brother Ashok (“Dap” from hip hop group Das Racist) and their podcast The Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Podcast. He also wrote the cover story for Spin Magazine about Das Racist in November 2011.
He was also a former video blogger for WORLD COMPASS, a joint initiative between WGBH Boston, PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Hari was born and raised in Queens, NY. He went to Townsend Harris High School and the school’s mascot, “Hari the Hawk,” was named after him during his senior year. (He sometimes fears that his greatest achievement was accomplished at 17.)
He attended both Bowdoin College and Wesleyan University, graduating from the former institution with a B.A. in Comparative Politics in 2004. A former immigrant rights organizer in Seattle, Hari also earned a Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics in 2008, writing a merit- earning dissertation entitled “Mexican Returnees as Internally Displaced People: An Argument for the Protection of Economic Migrants Under the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.” This is, by far, the least funny thing he’s ever written…including this bio.
The WMSJLS brings speakers to the Burlington community to provide a continuing program of radical analyses of social, ecological and political concerns. The series is dedicated to Will Miller, Vermont’s activist philosopher and UVM Philosophy Professor for 35 years.
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