SLCR Lecture Series

The Lecture Series in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race was created in an effort to connect faculty in the School with faculty in other academic units on campus who are doing research on similar topics but from their respective disciplines. The idea is to put their works in conversation and to highlight scholarly connections and research convergences. It is a way of showing that you can (and should) look at a “problem/issue/idea” from different angles in order to get a better, more complete understanding of the problem/issue/idea. The lecture series is premised on interdisciplinarity (or transdisciplinarity) and on transdisciplinary exchanges, cooperation, and collaboration.

2023-2024: Information about future speakers forthcoming

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Fall 2021

In October 2021, SLCR had the fourth installment of its lecture series, featuring its Director, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (Professor of CES and American Studies and Culture) and Matt Sutton (Chair and Professor of History). Theirs talks were created with the topic identity and identity categories in mind.

Matt Sutton

Presentation Title: Religious Identity Matters, But not as Much as I Used to Think: Trump, Race, Gender, and the Long History of Evangelical Politics.

For more information on Professor Sutton, go here.

 

 

 

Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo

Presentation Title: Identities and the Matter of Choice (or More Simply, All Identities are Chosen… with Consequences).

For more information, go here.

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Spring 2021

We took a hiatus on Fall 2020, and on Spring 2021, we resumed the Lecture Series virtually with a topic on nature and humanity with Xinmin Liu (Associate Professor of Chinese and American Studies and Culture, Pullman) and DJ Lee (Professor of English, Pullman).

Xinmin Liu

Presentation Title: “Greenwashing and its Discontent: A Chinese Muslim’s Affective Response”

For more information on Professor Liu, click here.

DJ Lee

Presentation Title: “Ghosts, Blood, Women and an Idaho Wilderness”

For more information on Professor Lee, click here.

 

 

 

 

In Spring 2021 we had a second virtual installment of the Lecture Series with Sue Peabody (Professor of History, Vancouver) and John Streamas (Associate Professor of CES and American Studies and Culture, Pullman). This lecture addressed the topic of race and family  from two different perspectives: Slavery in France’s territories (Peabody), and Nuclear War in the 20th Century (Streamas).

John Streamas

Presentation Title: “Dis-Integration: A Futureless History of Nuclear Families of Color”

For more information on Associate Professor Streamas, click here.

 

 

 

Sue Peabody

Presentation Title: “Microhistory: Reconstituting Slavery, Family, and Freedom”

For more information on Professor Peabody, click here.

 

 

 

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Spring 2020

The Series began on February 2020, a few weeks before the global lockdown, with Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo (Professor of CES and American Studies and Culture, Pullman) and Trish Glazebrook (Professor of Philosophy, Pullman) discussing the prescient topic of pandemics.

Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo

Presentation Title: “Mediated Fears about Pandemics and the American Imagination”

For more information on Professor Bloodsworth-Lugo, click here and here.

 

 

 

 

Trish Glazebrook

Presentation Title: “Pandemics: Lessons from around the World”

For more information on Professor Glazebrook, click here.