Join the ASU Alumni Association every second Tuesday of the month as financial guru, Dr. Emily Schwartz of Midfirst Bank, tackles a variety of personal finance topics. The 12-month series will offer workshops on budgeting, managing debt, the psychology of spending, hobbies that won't break the bank and so much more! A full list of topics can be found on the registration site.
Join ASU Family in congratulating the fall 2021 graduating class during ASU's commencement and convocation celebrations! In-person ceremonies are being offered in addition to live-streamed options for guests watching from home. Please visit graduation.asu.edu or click the links below for more details and information on how you can help celebrate the achievements of our incredible Sun Devils this year.
For centuries, during the so-called Age of Discovery, the European maritime powers partitioned and asserted ownership over the homelands of Indigenous peoples worldwide according to which among them first sighted or set foot on a land previously unknown to Europe. This practice, known today as the Doctrine of Discovery, enabled Europeans to appropriate vast territories and build colonial empires. The Conquering Columbus webinar will describe the theory and historic process of the Doctrine of Discovery and consider how it instituted long-term negative impacts on Indigenous people.
Sounding Bodies, Sounding Histories: Christi Jay Wells and Rashad Shabazz in conversation about Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance
Join us for a discussion of the just published book, Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance, by CSRD Race, Arts and Democracy fellow Christi Jay Wells. Professor Wells will be conversation with Rashad Shabazz, ASU Associate Professor of African and African American Studies.
This event brings together 10 multicultural faculty members of the Spanish and Portuguese section of the School of International Letters and Cultures, who from their own native and migrant perspectives – from regions such as the Andes (Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador), Mesoamerica (Mexico and Central America), the Iberic Peninsula (Spain and its regions), the South Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay) and the US Southwest Borderlands) — bring to life poignant ideological, sociocultural, historic and scientific perspectives found in these vast regions.
January Contreras — “Building a Justice System Where No One is Left Behind”
Wednesday, October 13 | 3–4:15 p.m. | Location: Bateman Physical Science Building - F Wing - Room 173
Join us for the final event in our 2021 Seeking Justice in Arizona lecture series, “Building a Justice System Where No One is Left Behind.” The lecture will be given by January Contreras, Founder of Arizona Legal Women and Youth Services (ALWAYS).
Humanitarianism has and always has had a listening problem.
A talk by historian and human rights expert Keith David Watenpaugh for the 2021 Hardt-Nickachos Lecture in Peace Studies.
Holocaust education, and genocide education more broadly, is an area in which humanities scholars and scholarship can make important contributions to civic education. While many US states include the Holocaust and other genocides in their history and social studies standards, there are relatively few resources for high school teachers to teach these atrocities in a way that is sensitive to the historical particularities of each genocide and provides their students with a meaningful comparative framework.
A time-honored tradition at Arizona State University, Homecoming is back this fall after a pandemic pause, bringing together students, parents, alumni and the ASU community to celebrate their Sun Devil spirit. The university will celebrate Homecoming this year with multiple events Oct. 24–30, culminating in a football game against Washington State at noon Oct. 30.
Ideas of the human—of what humanity is and what it can be—have long been bound up with narratives of progress.
The universal human, defined by reason, was at the core of the Enlightenment project. In the 20th century, projects of global development ushered in new figures of the human as the subject of universal rights and agent of economic transformation. The 21st century has, in turn, ushered in a figure of humanity as author of the Anthropocene and the subject of its own projects of technoscientific transformation—biological, cognitive and social.