Whiteness: A Primer on the Core Barrier to Racial Liberation

What is Whiteness? How is it different than 'White people' and what is the relevance to racial liberation? Dr. Cabrera will explore the historical development and contemporary relevance of Whiteness to racial oppression and higher education practice. He will then explore how the path toward liberation requires engaging, disrupting, and transforming Whiteness in the process.​

He will be signing copies of his new book, White Guys on Campus: Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of "Post-Racial" Higher Education after the lecture. 

50th Regester Lecture with John Lear

In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, Diego Rivera became one of the most famous painters in the world, as both his medium of public murals and his themes of popular culture and social transformation attracted new patrons, publics, and disciples. This communist artist’s reputation diminished during the Cold War, yet his life and art can tell us much about a period of revolutionary possibilities when artists and their art became important agents of social change.

Scott MacMillan: Hope Over Fate

Scott MacMillan is making a stop at UPS on a tour celebrating the launch of his new book, Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty. He is also speaking at universities such as Harvard, Tulane, and UCLA.

This is an ASUPS sponsored event.

Thompson Hall Seminar: Mary Kuhner

Poached ivory is consolidated, packaged, and shipped from Africa to Asia by large transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). When such a shipment is intercepted, we want to know (a) where did the ivory come from, and (b) which shipments likely came from the same TCO? Microsatellite typing can localize many elephants, though some individuals are frustratingly difficult. Adding the assumption that individuals in a single seizure are clustered relative to the whole continent improves assignment, though with some risk of over-clustering.