Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy 2017-18 Colloquium Series: Hate In A Period of Political Turmoil The Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy prioritizes collaborative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exchanges, bringing scholars, policy makers, nongovernmental organization members and others to the University of California, Irvine for roundtables, symposia and points of engagement. This year, we will host conversations that explore the rise in hate speech and hate crimes in the United States.  This academic year marks important milestones for these conversations, starting…

Moderator: COURTNEY R. BAKER, Occidental College ROBIN J. HAYES, Founder of Progressive Pupil, and TIPHANIE YANIQUE, Wesleyan University – “Fortune Bay: Visualizing a Feminist History of America’s Battered Paradise, the US Virgin Islands” LEIGH RAIFORD – “Framing Diaspora: Kathleen Neal Cleaver’s Family Albums of Exile” ROBIN J. HAYES and LEIGH RAIFORD – “Reclaiming Panther Women: Bringing Homemaking and Family into Third Cinema Filmmaking”

Panel: The Aesthetics of Excess: Baroques, Blackness and the Will to Adorn This seminar considers the astonishing versatility of the baroque in aesthetic forms that criss-cross the division between "high" and "low" expressive cultures in Black Diasporic, European, Euro-American, and Latin American settings. Most of the contributors turn to recent art forms or genres--installation art, post-apocalyptic fiction, transnational romance, hip-hop, mid to late 20th century painting, etc. Others return to more traditional forms, including the aesthetics of coronation and hymn,…

Chair: Audra Simpson, Columbia University Participants: Fugitive Solidarity Phanuel Antwi, University of British Columbia Confederate Symbols and Indigenous Identities Malinda Lowery, University of North Carolina NdNs in the Black Mind: Possibilities, Tensions, & Why We Gon Be Alright Kyle Mays, University of California, Los Angeles Comment: Courtney R. Baker, Occidental College This panel focuses on rethinking the shared conditions of possibility for Indigenous and Black theorizing, analysis and politics. Panels examine a number of key questions, including:  How has racialization been shaped by or exceeded the logics of colonial rule…