A panel conversation responding to the ongoing attacks on teaching accurate history, with Shevrin Jones, Laura Briggs, Raphael Rogers, and Jennifer Rich, moderated by Barbara Krauthamer.For not the first time in U.S. history, the content of p

Viral Exchanges: Hotspots, Spillovers, and the Reordering of Life, Lecture by Gregg Mitman

Dec 6th, 2021 1h 35m

2021 HISTORY WRITER IN RESIDENCE PUBLIC LECTURE BY GREGG MITMAN The word “hotspot” can mean a place where fires flare, where novel viruses appear, where human rage erupts. In the turbulence of ecological, public health, and political crises,

Landfall: Conversation With Director Cecilia Aldarondo

Dec 6th, 2021 59m 33s

A conversation with Landfall director Cecilia Aldarondo, with an introduction and moderation by Patricia Montoya.Through shard-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, Landfall is a cautionary tale for our times. Se

Young People Fighting For Climate Justice, A Conversation with Vanessa Nakate and Varshini Prakash

Dec 6th, 2021 1h 25m

2021 James Baldwin LectureYoung people have transformed the climate and environmental movement. Youth of color and youth from the Global South have been especially central in this process. In this conversation, Ugandan climate activist Vane

Disaster Capitalism, Ecofascism, and Ecoauthoritarianism

Dec 6th, 2021 1h 28m

The gravity of climate change and the environmental emergency demands not just attention but concerted action. But what form will that action take? Will states exercise more authority to impose solutions without democratic process? Will corpo

Environmental Policy In Historical Perspective: The 2020 Election Results & the Future of the Planet

Dec 19th, 2020 1h 29m

Feinberg Series Panel Discussion with Bill McKibben, Robert Pollin, Thea Riofrancos & Eve Vogel, moderated by Ashwin Ravikumar with an introduction by Kevin Young.We have only a few years left to make deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. Th

History from Below: Extractivism, Geology, and Power

Dec 18th, 2020 1h 30m

Feinberg Series Panel Discussion with Angélica Maria Bernal, Nigel Clark, Gregory Cushman, and Andrea Marston, moderated by Kiran Asher and with an introduction by Heidi Scott. November 18, 2020Human exploitation of the underground has been c

Thom van Dooren: The World in a Shell

Oct 23rd, 2020 1h 27m

Feinberg Series lecture on the disappearing snails of Hawaii by Thom van Dooren.Thom van Dooren is a field philosopher, storyteller and Associate Professor, University of Sydney and the University of Oslo. Moderated by Malcolm Sen with an int

Mike Davis: California Burning

Oct 15th, 2020 1h 12m

UMass Amherst Department of History Distinguished Annual Lecture and Feinberg Series Lecture by Mike Davis, moderated by Vijay PrasahdCalifornia Burning: The Apocalyptic Trinity of Climate Change, Alien Plant Invasion and ExurbanizationAn a

What Does The Earth Ask Of Us? Keynote By Robin Wall Kimmerer

Oct 2nd, 2020 1h 30m

*AVAILABLE UNTIL OCTOBER 20*We are showered every day with the gifts of the Earth and yet we are tied to institutions which relentlessly ask, what more can we take? Drawing upon both scientific and Indigenous knowledges, this talk explores th

Walidah Imarisha: "All Organizing is Science Fiction"

Nov 14th, 2018 1h 30m

Educator, writer, public scholar and spoken word artist Walidah Imarisha explores the history of sci-fi and social change, sharing tools for using science fiction as a practice ground for social justice strategizing and vision. Imarisha is co-a

Domestic Workers Building Dignity and Power, Past and Present

Nov 2nd, 2018 2h

Domestic workers are drawing lessons from past movements to organize on a massive scale and build feminist economies. A panel conversation with Linda Burnham (National Domestic Workers Alliance), Monique Tú Nguyen (Matahari Women Workers’ Cente

21st Century Socialism: Venezuela's Communes in Historical Perspective, Feinberg Series

Oct 27th, 2018 51m 32s

Venezuelan communes are radical experiments in grassroots democracy and economic production that attempt to “concretize utopia.” Atenea Jiménez (Network of Communers, Venezuela) and George Ciccariello-Maher (Hemispheric Institute of Performance

Imagining Community, Living in Community

Oct 5th, 2018 57m 34s

An exploration of efforts to create intentional communities based on participants' visions of just and harmonious social relationships. Often described as “utopian,” these movements have focused on realizing transformative visions on a small sc

State Violence and Revolution: Lessons from El Salvador

Sep 27th, 2018 1h 8m

In the 1980s, Salvadoran revolutionaries fought to overthrow a U.S.-backed dictatorship and build popular democratic alternatives. Many people in Massachusetts supported them. Former guerrilla Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, peasant organizer Rosa R

Rev Dr William J Barber: Feinberg Series Keynote Address and Inaugural James Baldwin Lecture

Sep 27th, 2018 1h 11m

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is president of Repairers of the Breach, national co-chair of the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign, and leader of an alliance of more than 200 progressive organizations best known as “Moral Monday.” This coalition has

Reawakening the Black Radical Imagination: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Kali Akuno, Mary Hooks

Sep 7th, 2018 1h 44m

A panel discussion with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (author of From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation and How We Get Free), Kali Akuno (Cooperation Jackson), and Mary Hooks (Southerners on New Ground), moderated by Toussaint Losier (UMass). Pre

Panel, "Resisting Police Violence in Springfield and Beyond: Mothers, Scholars and QTPOC Speak Out"

Dec 16th, 2016 1h 40m

An evening of conversation with local and national voices on police violence in Springfield, MA and beyond, featuring Kissa Owens (mother of Delano Walker), Andrea Ritchie (attorney, writer, Soros Justice Fellow), ShaeShae Quest (Out Now), and

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