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Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

Alex Cannon: “Creative Deployments and Postsocialist Imaginings: Southern Vietnamese Traditional Music in the Twenty-First Century” – March 18, 2014

Traditional music creation in contemporary Vietnam borders on the frenetic. Music practitioners and consumers involve…

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Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

Brenda Brueggemann: “Losing, and Finding, Heart at Hartheim: A Journey to the Center of the Nazi’s Atkion T4 [Euthanasia] Program Enacted on People with Disabilities” – February 25, 2014

This lecture takes us on a journey through the Nazi’s Aktion T-4 project, a project…

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Thursday, March 23rd, 2017

Dr. Joseph Michael Valente: “How Deaf Children learn to be Deaf: Bilingual Kindergartens in France, Japan, and the United States” – October 29, 2013

Prof. Valente will discuss and present anthropological film footage from his cross-cultural, comparative ethnographic study…

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Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

Sami Schalk: “Blackness and Disability: From Slavery to a Not-so-Distant Future” – September 10, 2013

To date, the fields of disability studies, Black Diaspora studies, and critical race studies have…

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