[ThirdCoast] - Henry Louis Gates Jr. on “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War”

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Tuesday, March 3, 3:30-5 pm
Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State
UCLA professor Shannon Speed<https://anthro.ucla.edu/faculty/shannon-speed> will speak about her 2019 book Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State<https://uncpress.org/book/9781469653129/incarcerated-stories/>, exploring the violence that indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face.
Speed taught at the University of Texas before joining the UCLA faculty, where she is is director of the American Indian Studies Center. A citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Speed is the current president of the national Native American and Indigenous Studies Association<https://www.naisa.org/>.
The event is sponsored by UT’s Native American and Indigenous Studies program<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/nais/>. More information online<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/nais/events/shannon-speed-s-talk-on-incarcerated-stories>.
Location: University of Texas, RLP Building<https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/campus/buildings/nlogon/maps/UTM/RLP/>, Julius Glickman Conference Center (first floor, Room 1.302E), Austin. Paid parking in the Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd.

Tuesday, March 3, 5:30-7 pm
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War”
Henry Louis Gates Jr. will speak on “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.” Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, is a filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, and cultural critic. He has authored or co-authored 21 books and created 15 documentary films, including “Finding Your Roots,” his groundbreaking genealogy series on PBS. His six-part PBS documentary series, “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program—Long Form.
Free tickets and more information online<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/henry-louis-gates-jr-on-reconstruction-america-after-the-civil-war-tickets-94165773363?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR1YfbIU9-wPWrLPIhurMArgbgXe-zbXFyw-XouExLNVSEir_7s-hvpIqHo>. The event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy<https://csrd.lbj.utexas.edu/> at the University of Texas.
Location: Blanton Museum of Art, 200 East Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Austin 78712

Thursday, March 5, 4-5 pm
Authors Discuss “A Black Women’s History of the United States”
University of Texas historian Daina Ramey Berry<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/db27553> and Rutgers University historian Kali Nicole Gross<https://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/789-gross-kali-nicole> will discuss their new book, A Black Women’s History of the United States<https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/567157/a-black-womens-history-of-the-united-states-by-daina-ramey-berry-and-kali-nicole-gross/>. Berry, the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History and Associate Dean for Graduate Education Transformation, is also the author of The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to the Grave, in the Building of a Nation<http://www.beacon.org/The-Price-for-Their-Pound-of-Flesh-P1227.aspx>. Gross, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History, is also the author of Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/hannah-mary-tabbs-and-the-disembodied-torso-9780190241216?cc=us&lang=en&>.
More information online<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/historicalstudies/events/book-talk-a-black-woman-s-history-of-the-united-states-by-daina-ramey-berry-university-of-texas-at-austin-and-kali-nicole-gross-rutgers-university> or email cmeador at austin.utexas.edu<mailto:cmeador at austin.utexas.edu>.
Location: University of Texas, Garrison Hall<https://facilitiesservices.utexas.edu/buildings/UTM/0249> (GAR 4.100), Austin

Thursday, March 5, 6:30 pm
“Reversing Roe” Documentary Screening
“Reversing Roe”<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihN7DR1Ce6g> looks at the state of abortion and women’s rights in the United States, through candid interviews with key figures from both sides of the issue.
The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Dr. Lauren Thaxton<https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/lauren-thaxton>, Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Health at Dell Medical School. The event is part of the “Controversy & Conversation<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/humanitiesinstitute/co-sponsored-community-programs/controversy-and-conversation.php>” series, a collaboration between the Austin Public Library and the Humanities Institute’s Difficult Dialogues Program at the University of Texas.
More information online<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/humanitiesinstitute/events/controversy-conversation-film-screening-reversing-roe>.
Location: Austin Public Library, Terrazas Branch, 1105 East Cesar Chavez St., Austin, 78702

Thursday, March 12, 9 am-4 pm
Mapping Media Manipulation and Disinformation Campaigns
The Good Systems Project<https://bridgingbarriers.utexas.edu/good-systems/> at the University of Texas and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy<https://shorensteincenter.org/> at Harvard University are sponsoring a public workshop on “Mapping Media Manipulation and Disinformation Campaigns.” The keynote speaker will be Joan Donovan<https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/joan-donovan>, Director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center.
A workshop for 25 participants will be held on Friday. More information online<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDu7IVqF4HWN0ozBKLhxb_PIdjkEp0VtR7NDyx3p1CPTxLpA/viewform>.
Location: University of Texas, Perry-Castañeda Library<https://www.lib.utexas.edu/about/locations/pcl> (PCL, Learning Lab 1), 101 East 21st St., Austin

Friday, March 13, 1:30-2:30 pm
Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
David McCraw, deputy general counsel of The New York Times Company and the company’s principal newsroom lawyer, will speak about “Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts.” He is the author of the book Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts, a first-person account of the legal battles that helped shape the Times’s coverage of Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, conflicts abroad, and Washington politics.
The event is sponsored by the Media Ethics Initiative<https://mediaethicsinitiative.org/>, part of the Center for Media Engagement<https://mediaengagement.org/> at UT.
More information on the Facebook event page<https://www.facebook.com/events/198334731255606/>.
Location: University of Texas, Jesse H. Jones Communication Center<https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/campus/buildings/nlogon/facilities/UTM/CMA/>, Building A (CMA 5.208), Austin

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