BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝ - ECPv6.10.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝ X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝ REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T200000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250228T155309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250228T155309Z UID:21939-1743703200-1743710400@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Suspended Education: School Punishment & the Legacy of Racial Injustice DESCRIPTION:Join us and author Aaron Kupchik and Dr. Yasser Payne\, professor of sociology at the University of Delaware and author of Murdertown\, USA\, for a thought-provoking discussion on \nJoin us and author Aaron Kupchik and Dr. Yasser Payne\, professor of sociology at the University of Delaware and author of Murdertown\, USA\, for a thought-provoking discussion on Suspended Education. \nEvery year\, millions of students are suspended\, disproportionately harming Black students and deepening racial inequities in education. Kupchik’s groundbreaking research uncovers how suspensions\, originally designed to exclude rather than reform\, became a tool for segregation after Brown v. Board of Education. Through compelling analysis and real-world case studies\, he exposes the roots of this broken system and makes a powerful case for ending exclusionary punishments in schools. \n. \nEvery year\, millions of students are suspended\, disproportionately harming Black students and deepening racial inequities in education. Kupchik’s groundbreaking research uncovers how suspensions\, originally designed to exclude rather than reform\, became a tool for segregation after Brown v. Board of Education. Through compelling analysis and real-world case studies\, he exposes the roots of this broken system and makes a powerful case for ending exclusionary punishments in schools. URL:/event/suspended-education-school-punishment-the-legacy-of-racial-injustice/ LOCATION:Huxley & Hiro Booksellers\, 419 North Market Street\, Wilmington\, Delaware\, 19801 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/28105206/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_971846793_2601593102801_1_original.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T203000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250203T201357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T201357Z UID:21675-1743706800-1743712200@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Melissa Klapper\, co-author of "The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai" DESCRIPTION:7-8:30 pm | In-Person at The Jewish Library of Baltimore\, 5700 Park Heights Avenue\, Baltimore\, Jewish Community Center\, 1st floor. Please be prepared to show ID at the entrance. \nThe Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai\, written from 1864-1865 in the antebellum South\, charts Mordecai’s daily life and her evolving perspective on Confederate nationalism and Southern identity\, Jewishness\, women’s roles in wartime\, gendered domestic roles in slave-owning households\, and more. While never losing sight of the racist social and political structures that shaped Emma Mordecai’s world\, The Civil War Diary provides a vivid look at the wartime experiences of a Jewish woman in the Confederate South. \nBooks will be available for purchase and signing at the event and are also available at Bookshop\, Amazon\, and your local bookseller. \nRegistration to attend is highly recommended. Please bring ID. URL:/event/sandra-seltzer-silberman-hbi-conversations-series-featuring-melissa-klapper-co-author-of-the-civil-war-diary-of-emma-mordecai/ LOCATION:The Jewish Library of Baltimore\, 5700 Park Heights Avenue\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21215\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T193000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250307T153819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T153819Z UID:22048-1743789600-1743795000@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Andrew Krinks: White Property\, Black Trespass DESCRIPTION:Andrew Krinks will visit City Lights on Friday\, April 4th at 6:00pm to discuss his book\, White Property\, Black Trespass. \nUncovers the inherently religious structure of the criminalization of Black\, Indigenous\, and dispossessed peoples. \nMost popular critical accounts of mass criminalization interpret police and prisons as purely social or political phenomena. While such accounts have been indispensable in moving millions into collective action and resistance\, the carceral state remains as pervasive as ever. \nWhite Property\, Black Trespass argues that understanding why we have police and prisons\, and building a world of safety and abundance beyond them\, requires that we acknowledge the inherently religious function that criminalization fulfills for a colonial and racial capitalist order that puts its faith in cops and cages to save it from the existential threat of disorder that its own structural violence creates. \nThe story of criminalization\, Krinks shows\, begins with the eurochristian aspiration to become God at the expense of all others—an aspiration that gives rise to the pseudo-sacred powers of whiteness and property\, and\, by extension\, the police power that exists to serve and protect them. Tracing the historical continuity and religiosity of the color line\, the property line\, and the thin blue line\, Krinks reveals police power as the pseudo-divine power to exile nonwhite and dispossessed trespassers to carceral hell. \nAt once incisive and expansive\, this groundbreaking work deepens understanding of racial capitalism and mass criminalization by illuminating the religious mythologies that animate them. It concludes with thoughts on what might be entailed in a religion rooted in rejection of the religious idolatry of mass criminalization—a religion of abolition. \nAndrew Krinks is an independent scholar\, educator\, and movement builder based in Nashville\, Tennessee. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, April 4\, 2025 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n3 E Jackson St\n\nSylva\, NC 28779 URL:/event/andrew-krinks-white-property-black-trespass/ LOCATION:City Lights Booksellers & Publishers\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/22163854/Mass-Criminalization.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T170000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250307T153931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T153931Z UID:22050-1743865200-1743872400@nyupress.org SUMMARY:The Religion of Criminalization / The Religion of Abolition DESCRIPTION:A book talk and dialogue with Tennessee-based author and organizer Andrew Krinks on themes from his book White Property\, Black Trespass. Krinks will be joined by local organizers Hill Brown and Rev. Allyn Maxfield-Steele for conversation\, followed by an invitation to those gathered to join the discussion on the relationship between religion\, spirituality\, whiteness\, racial capitalism\, criminalization\, and abolition. \nThe story of criminalization\, Krinks shows in White Property\, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization\, begins with the eurochristian aspiration to become God at the expense of all others—an aspiration that gives rise to the pseudo-sacred powers of whiteness and property\, and\, by extension\, the police power that exists to serve and protect them. Tracing the historical continuity and religiosity of the color line\, the property line\, and the thin blue line\, Krinks reveals police power as the pseudo-divine power to exile nonwhite and dispossessed trespassers to carceral hell. \nBooks and a special edition poster designed by the author will be available for sale. \nAndrew Krinks is a writer\, educator\, scholar\, organizer\, and movement builder working at the intersections of religion\, racial capitalism\, mass criminalization\, and abolition in Nashville\, Tennessee. They teach college and seminary courses on religion\, theology\, ethics\, carcerality\, abolition\, and social justice\, and conduct participatory action research on the impacts of prisons and policing. URL:/event/the-religion-of-criminalization-the-religion-of-abolition/ LOCATION:Firestorm\, 1022 Haywood Rd\, Asheville\, North Carolina ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/22163854/Mass-Criminalization.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T170000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250325T151935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T151935Z UID:22436-1744300800-1744304400@nyupress.org SUMMARY:After Mass Media book talk with Amanda Lotz and Evan Shapiro DESCRIPTION:Join us as Amanda Lotz and Evan Shapiro discuss television’s creative and industrial changes and what the future holds \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on Thursday\, April 10 as media scholar Amanda Lotz and media cartographer and thought leader Evan Shapiro discuss television’s creative and industrial changes and what the future holds in celebration of the launch of After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century (ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝). \nAfter Mass Media connects Lotz’s two decades of studying changes in the US television industry with the range of scripted stories now commercially viable\, stories that are increasingly made for global audiences. Lotz explores the new storytelling opportunities and the challenges to creative talent to explain how and why ‘television’ has changed. \nAmanda D. Lotz is Professor in the Digital Media Research Center at Queensland University of Technology. \nDue to his provocative analysis and singular infographics about the media business\, Evan Shapiro is known as The Media Universe Cartographer. He is an adjunct at NYU Stern and pens the newsletter Media War & Peace. \nThis in-person event will be held at the NYU Stern School of Business (Room 2-70\, Henry Kaufman Management Center at 44 West 4th Street). URL:/event/after-mass-media-book-talk-with-amanda-lotz-and-evan-shapiro/ LOCATION:NYU Stern School of Business\, 44 W 4th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/25111931/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_991551723_182723635227_1_original.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T170000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250327T182557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250327T182557Z UID:22477-1744473600-1744477200@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Screening: A Thousand and One Berber Nights (Princeton French Film Festival) DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the third edition of the Princeton French Film Festival\, taking place between March 28 and April 25\, 2025. \nConceived as a public humanities initiative\, a community-engaged project\, and an innovative promotion of the arts in Princeton\, this festival will celebrate the 130th anniversary of cinema in all its richness and complexity. \nIt offers 20 feature-length and short movies (from classics to US Premieres) by emerging and award-winning filmmakers\, 13 Q&A sessions with directors\, artists\, and professors\, 3 masterclasses with renowned artists\, 2 art exhibitions on campus and at the Arts Council of Princeton\, a first-of-its-kind cinĂŠ-symposium on and with a Honorary Oscar Awardee\, a book discussion with a world-class writer\, a concert with two exceptional Haitian musicians\, a rediscovery of Princeton through a cinematic guided tour\, and numerous pedagogical projects with local schools. \nThe films will be screened on Princeton University’s campus\, at the Princeton Public Library\, at the Princeton Garden Theater\, and at the Arts Council of Princeton in their original language(s) and with English subtitles. All rooms are wheelchair-friendly. \nThis screening of A Thousand and One Berber Nights will be followed by Q&A with director Hisham Aidi and a free reception with Moroccan food. Introduction and moderation by Prof. Habiba Boumlik (CUNY). On view is Trenton-based artist Alia Bensliman’s Now and Then: Amazigh Resurgence exhibition at the Arts Council of Princeton. \n\nHabiba is also one of the contributors of Amazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North American Indigenous Film\, edited by Lucy R McNair and Yahya Laayouni (University of Regina Press\, 2025). URL:/event/screening-a-thousand-and-one-berber-nights-princeton-french-film-festival/ LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, 102 Witherspoon Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250413T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250413T180000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250219T174012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250311T144545Z UID:21835-1744563600-1744567200@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Book Talk Event with Busboys and Poets DESCRIPTION:Join the co-authors of The Origins of Critical Race Theory for an evening conversation on their newly published title! \nAuthors Aja Martinez and Robert Smith are joining us on the Busboys stage alongside Dr. Shelly Wong and Dr. Rachel Grant to discuss “the power of Critical Race Theory as we serve communities of color around issues of race\, racism\, and other forms of domination” (Daniel SolĂłrzano\, author of Racial Microaggressions). Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event\, and the authors will be signing following the program. \nThis event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 5:00 pm\, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of THE ORIGINS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is in person and will not be livestreamed. \nWe ask that guests RSVP in order to receive direct updates about the event from Busboys and Poets Books URL:/event/book-talk-event-with-busboys-and-poets/ LOCATION:Busboys and Poets\, 2021 14th St NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20009\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/18110300/9781479832675-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T170000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250219T174235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T174235Z UID:21837-1744732800-1744736400@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Book Launch: Dr. Aja Y. Martinez & Dr. Robert O. Smith\, The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement DESCRIPTION:Please join the Department of Latina/Latino Studies in celebrating the book launch of LLS Associate Professor\, Aja Y. Martinez’s new book The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement (New York University Press)\, co-authored with Robert O. Smith (Assistant Professor\, University of North Texas). Join us at the Illini Union Bookstore Author’s Corner on the 2nd floor from 4:00-5:30pm! \nThe Origins of Critical Race Theory weaves together the many sources of critical race theory\, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and controversial academic movements in U.S. history. In addition to introducing readers to the tenets and key insights of critical race theory\, Martinez and Smith explore the lives and intellectual influences of the movement’s founders\, shedding light on how the many components of critical race theory eventually formed into a movement. URL:/event/book-launch-dr-aja-y-martinez-dr-robert-o-smith-the-origins-of-critical-race-theory-the-people-and-ideas-that-created-a-movement/ LOCATION:Illini Union Bookstore\, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, Champaign\, Illinois END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T170000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250319T193817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T193817Z UID:22230-1744905600-1744909200@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Aja Y. Martinez & Robert O. Smith - The Origins of Critical Race Theory DESCRIPTION:Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith will discuss their book The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement. A Q&A will follow the discussion. \nAt the Co-op. \nRSVP Here (Please note your RSVP is requested but not required) \nAbout the Book \nCritical race theory (CRT)\, a vital movement and discipline in American legal scholarship\, has transformed our understanding of systemic racism. Yet despite insightful analysis revealing the threads of racism embedded in American institutions and society\, it has been demonized by opponents at every turn\, with numerous state legislators now seeking to ban its use in the classroom. \nThe Origins of Critical Race Theory weaves together the many sources of critical race theory\, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and controversial academic movements in U.S. history. In addition to introducing readers to the tenets and key insights of critical race theory\, Martinez and Smith explore the lives and intellectual influences of the movement’s founders\, shedding light on how the many components of critical race theory eventually formed into a movement. \nThrough archival research and interviews with scholars like Derrick Bell\, Richard Delgado\, and Jean Stefancic\, Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith provide the personal side of critical race theory. They reveal that despite the Marxist menace it has recently been made out to be\, critical race theory is an organic extension of the Civil Rights movement\, a deeply human and deeply American response to ongoing systemic injustice and inequity. An insightful exploration into the story of a movement\, The Origins of Critical Race Theory narrates the hidden influences\, fascinating characters\, and intellectual struggles that informed critical race theory’s inception. \nAbout the Authors \nAja Y. Martinez is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of the award-winning Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory. \nRobert O. Smith is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas and Enrolled Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He is the author of More Desired than Our Own Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism and Comprehending Christian Zionism: Perspectives in Comparison. \n\nEvent Location:\n\n\n\nSeminary Co-op \n5751 S Woodlawn Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\n\nSee map: Google Maps URL:/event/aja-y-martinez-robert-o-smith-the-origins-of-critical-race-theory/ LOCATION:Seminary Co-op\, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/04174854/9781479832675-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T190000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250220T150650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T150650Z UID:21852-1744912800-1744916400@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Queer Lasting: An Evening with Sarah Ensor DESCRIPTION:A Room of One’s Own is thrilled to host Professor Sarah Ensor in celebration of the release of her first book\, Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World. \nThis is an in-person event at A Room of One’s Own Bookstore. \nAbout the Book \nQueer Lasting asks what contemporary environmental thought’s seemingly necessary emphasis on the future has rendered unthinkable\, and looks to queer literature for unexpected forms of persistence that emerge “at the last”: at the at the end of life\, at the end of a family line\, as the last living member of a species\, perhaps at the end of the future itself. Defining queerness as a mode of collective life in which these paradigms of lasting—ending and persisting—are constitutively intertwined\, the book reads two periods of queer extinction (the 1890s and the 1980s) for models of care\, continuance\, and collective action that are predicated on futurelessness. At a moment when our response to environmental and social cataclysm often involves either safeguarding the future (as we think we know it) or\, alternatively\, speculating and working toward alternate futures\, Queer Lasting considers what becomes possible when we take our eyes off that nominal prize\, setting our sights elsewhere and directing our energies otherwise. \nSarah Ensor works at the intersections of queer theory\, the Environmental Humanities\, and American Literature. She teaches in the English department at UW-Madison. Queer Lasting is her first book. URL:/event/queer-lasting-an-evening-with-sarah-ensor/ LOCATION:A Room Of One’s Own Bookstore\, 2717 Atwood Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53704 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T190000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250401T142015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T142015Z UID:22532-1744912800-1744916400@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Queer Lasting: An Evening with Sarah Ensor in Conversation with Heather Swan DESCRIPTION:A Room of One’s Own is thrilled to host Professor Sarah Ensor in celebration of the release of her first book\, Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World. She will be joined in conversation with Heather Swan. \nThis is an in-person event at A Room of One’s Own Bookstore. \nAbout the Book \nQueer Lasting asks what contemporary environmental thought’s seemingly necessary emphasis on the future has rendered unthinkable\, and looks to queer literature for unexpected forms of persistence that emerge “at the last”: at the at the end of life\, at the end of a family line\, as the last living member of a species\, perhaps at the end of the future itself. Defining queerness as a mode of collective life in which these paradigms of lasting—ending and persisting—are constitutively intertwined\, the book reads two periods of queer extinction (the 1890s and the 1980s) for models of care\, continuance\, and collective action that are predicated on futurelessness. At a moment when our response to environmental and social cataclysm often involves either safeguarding the future (as we think we know it) or\, alternatively\, speculating and working toward alternate futures\, Queer Lasting considers what becomes possible when we take our eyes off that nominal prize\, setting our sights elsewhere and directing our energies otherwise. \nSarah Ensor works at the intersections of queer theory\, the Environmental Humanities\, and American Literature. She teaches in the English department at UW-Madison. Queer Lasting is her first book. \nHeather Swan\, MFA and PhD\, is a poet and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the nonfiction books Where the Grass Still Sings: Stories of Insects and Interconnection and Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field (Penn State Press) the latter of which won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in such journals as The Sun\, Emergence\, Catapult\, and Minding Nature. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Cold Mountain\, The Hopper\, One Art\,  Poet Lore\, Phoebe\, The Raleigh Review\, and Terrain. Her book of poems\, A Kinship with Ash (Terrapin Books)\, published in 2020\, was a finalist for the ASLE Book Award and long-listed for the Julie Suk Award. A second collection\, Dandelion\, was published in 2023. She is also a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship\, the Maud Weinschenk Award\, the August Derleth Prize for Poetry\, the John Tigges Poetry Award\, A Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Award\, and an honorable mention for the Lorine Niedecker Award. She teaches environmental literature and writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. URL:/event/queer-lasting-an-evening-with-sarah-ensor-in-conversation-with-heather-swan/ LOCATION:A Room Of One’s Own Bookstore\, 2717 Atwood Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53704 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/01102009/your-paragraph-text-85-x-95-20.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T200000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250219T174419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T193628Z UID:21841-1744916400-1744920000@nyupress.org SUMMARY:The Origins of Critical Race Theory with Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith to the store for a reading and discussion in celebration of their new book The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas that Created a Movement. \nCritical race theory (CRT)\, a vital movement and discipline in American legal scholarship\, has transformed our understanding of systemic racism. Yet despite insightful analysis revealing the threads of racism embedded in American institutions and society\, it has been demonized by opponents at every turn\, with numerous state legislators now seeking to ban its use in the classroom. \nThe Origins of Critical Race Theory weaves together the many sources of critical race theory\, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and controversial academic movements in U.S. history. In addition to introducing readers to the tenets and key insights of critical race theory\, Martinez and Smith explore the lives and intellectual influences of the movement’s founders\, shedding light on how the many components of critical race theory eventually formed into a movement. \nThrough archival research and interviews with scholars like Derrick Bell\, Richard Delgado\, and Jean Stefancic\, Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith provide the personal side of critical race theory. They reveal that despite the Marxist menace it has recently been made out to be\, critical race theory is an organic extension of the Civil Rights movement\, a deeply human and deeply American response to ongoing systemic injustice and inequity. An insightful exploration into the story of a movement\, The Origins of Critical Race Theory narrates the hidden influences\, fascinating characters\, and intellectual struggles that informed critical race theory’s inception. \nAja Y. Martinez is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of the award-winning Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory. \nRobert O. Smith is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas and Enrolled Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He is the author of More Desired than Our Own Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism and Comprehending Christian Zionism: Perspectives in Comparison. \nCritical race theory (CRT)\, a vital movement and discipline in American legal scholarship\, has transformed our understanding of systemic racism. Yet despite insightful analysis revealing the threads of racism embedded in American institutions and society\, it has been demonized by opponents at every turn\, with numerous state legislators now seeking to ban its use in the classroom. \nThe Origins of Critical Race Theory weaves together the many sources of critical race theory\, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and controversial academic movements in U.S. history. In addition to introducing readers to the tenets and key insights of critical race theory\, Martinez and Smith explore the lives and intellectual influences of the movement’s founders\, shedding light on how the many components of critical race theory eventually formed into a movement. \nThrough archival research and interviews with scholars like Derrick Bell\, Richard Delgado\, and Jean Stefancic\, Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith provide the personal side of critical race theory. They reveal that despite the Marxist menace it has recently been made out to be\, critical race theory is an organic extension of the Civil Rights movement\, a deeply human and deeply American response to ongoing systemic injustice and inequity. An insightful exploration into the story of a movement\, The Origins of Critical Race Theory narrates the hidden influences\, fascinating characters\, and intellectual struggles that informed critical race theory’s inception. \nAja Y. Martinez is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of the award-winning Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory. \nRobert O. Smith is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas and Enrolled Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He is the author of More Desired than Our Own Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism and Comprehending Christian Zionism: Perspectives in Comparison. URL:/event/the-origins-of-critical-race-theory-with-aja-y-martinez-and-robert-o-smith/ LOCATION:Pilsen Community Books\, 1102 W 18th St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60608\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T170000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250327T183043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250327T183043Z UID:22480-1745508600-1745514000@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Renaissance Amazigh: Dounia Benjelloun\, Morocco\, 2004 (18 min) DESCRIPTION:A documentary on the successful resistance movement of Moroccan Amazigh people and celebration of our book: Amazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film (Eds. Lucy R McNair and Yahya Laayouni\, University of Regina Press\, 2025). \nQ&A with Lucy McNair and Yahya Laayouni \nAt the New York Forum of Amazigh Film (NYFAF) URL:/event/renaissance-amazigh-dounia-benjelloun-morocco-2004-18-min/ LOCATION:LaGuardia Community College\, Performing Arts Center\, 31-10 Thomson Ave\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250428T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250428T190000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250307T191401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T191401Z UID:22059-1745859600-1745866800@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Roundtable: Digital Capitalism - Exploitation\, Injustice and Infrastructure DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to present a roundtable discussion on digital capitalism with Aitor JimĂŠnez (University of the Basque Country)\, Ana Valdivia (Oxford Internet Institute) and George Briley (University of Brighton). \nEvent Information\n\n\n\n\nOpen to\nAll \n\nAvailability\nYes \n\n\n\nOrganiser\n\n\nCentre for Capitalism Studies\ninstituteofadvancedstudies@ucl.ac.uk\n\n\nLocation\n\n\n\nIAS Common Ground\nG11\, ground floor\, South Wing\nUCL\, Gower St\, London\nWC1E 6BT\nUnited Kingdom\n\n\n\nBook now\n\n\n\nTo celebrate the launch of Aitor JimĂŠnez’s The Crimes of Digital Capitalism: Corporate Crime in an Age of Exploitation\, this roundtable discussion will feature three different perspectives on the ways that digital technologies and infrastructures are reshaping modern capitalism. The discussants will ask how we can respond to this emergent system? What threats and opportunities does it present? What theoretical tools do we need to understand virtual and physical aspects of this transformation? \nPlease register to attend: https://ucl-ccs-digital-capitalism.eventbrite.co.uk \n\nThe UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past\, present\, and future of capitalism. It brings together UCL faculty and students studying how markets\, finance and economic institutions shape our everyday life\, structure societies’ capacity to change\, and are contested and remade across time and space.mes URL:/event/roundtable-digital-capitalism-exploitation-injustice-and-infrastructure/ LOCATION:UCL\, UCL\, Gower St\, London\, WC1E 6BT\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/07141354/aitor_digital_capitalism_bookcover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T170000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250226T212013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T212013Z UID:21925-1745928000-1745946000@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: West Oak Lane Library DESCRIPTION: URL:/event/hope-and-struggle-in-the-policed-city-west-oak-lane-library/ LOCATION:West Oak Lane Library\, 2000 E. Washington Lane\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19138\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/26161828/9781479823987.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T180000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250320T154637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T154736Z UID:22275-1745942400-1745949600@nyupress.org SUMMARY:How to be Disabled in a Pandemic Book Launch Party DESCRIPTION:Please join The Center for Disability Studies\, Mara Mills\, Harris Kornstein\, Faye Ginsburg\, and Rayna Rapp to celebrate the publication of How to be Disabled in a Pandemic with refreshments and brief readings from some of the book’s authors. \nRegistration is Required (Link will be provided soon) \nASL interpretation and KF94 masks will be provided \nPlease email accessibility needs as they relate to this event to msf440@nyu.edu by 04/15. \n\nHow to Be Disabled in a Pandemic will be available for purchase at this event. It is also available from ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝ (and wherever books are sold). We are also thrilled to note that ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝ has simultaneously published an Open Access version of the book.\nSave 30% when you use code NYUAU30 at checkout on nyupress.org. URL:/event/how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic-book-launch-party/ LOCATION:53 Washington Square South\, 53 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/12104144/9781479830831.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T200000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250318T202144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250318T202144Z UID:22219-1746558000-1746561600@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Corinna Barrett Lain presents "Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection" in conversation w/ Omavi Shukur DESCRIPTION:Lethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story.\n\n\nIn the popular imagination\, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by well-qualified medical professionals. It is regulated and carefully conducted. And it usually provides a “humane” death. In reality\, however\, not one of those things is true. \nSECRETS OF THE KILLING STATE pulls back the curtain on this clandestine punishment practice\, presenting a view of lethal injection that states have worked hard to hide. Botched executions are a part of this story\, but they are just the tip of the iceberg. For all the suffering that we see\, there is also suffering that we don’t see. Indeed\, the story told here is even bigger than the executions themselves\, for behind the scenes is where it unfolds. Fake science\, torturous drugs\, inept executioners\, prison problems\, and decades of state secrecy have created an execution method hard-wired to go wrong in countless ways. \nThe story of lethal injection is a story of gross incompetence\, law breaking\, torturous deaths\, and a stunning indifference to the way in which human beings die at the hands of the state. These are the secrets of the killing state—all that we know from litigation files\, scientific studies\, investigative journalism\, autopsy reports\, interviews\, and scholarship across a number of fields. Death penalty expert Corinna Barrett Lain uses this groundbreaking journey into the dark reality of lethal injection to shine a light on the American death penalty more broadly and show that the state at its most powerful moment is also the state at its worst. \nWe are now over 45 years into the lethal injection era\, and most Americans still have no idea what states are doing in their name. It’s time they found out. \n\n\n\n\nCorinna Barrett Lain is S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at University of Richmond School of Law. \nOmavi Shukur is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Law. His research explores the relationship between the law and subordinated people’s efforts to contest state control. He also litigates civil rights and criminal cases that implicate a myriad of pressing social justice issues\, most notably the harms caused by the criminal legal system. He is currently a director of the Little Rock Freedom Fund. URL:/event/corinna-barrett-lain-presents-secrets-of-the-killing-state-the-untold-story-of-lethal-injection-in-conversation-w-omavi-shukur/ LOCATION:Red Emma’s Bookstore\, 3128 Greenmount Ave\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21218\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T170000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250226T212120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T133251Z UID:21928-1747494000-1747501200@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Falls of Schuylkill Library DESCRIPTION:Author Talk: Hope and Struggle in the Policed City\n Sat\, May 17\, 2025 3:00 P.M.\nAdd to your calendar\nFalls of Schuylkill Library\n\nCost: FREE \nJoin us for an author talk with Menika Dirkson\, author of Hope and Struggle in the Policed City. Menika Dirkson is a Philadelphia native and an Assistant Professor of African American History at Morgan State University. She received her PhD in History from Temple University. Her research focuses on police-Black community relations in Philadelphia following the Civil Rights Era.  She is currently researching race\, policing\, and graffiti surounding the public transportation system in post-1958 Philadelphia. She lives in Germantown and regularly volunteers with the Friends of Joseph E. Coleman Library. \nThis program is sponsored by the Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library\, enter on Midvale Avenue. URL:/event/hope-and-struggle-in-the-policed-city-falls-of-schuylkill-library/ LOCATION:Falls of Schuylkill Library\, 3501 Midvale Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19129\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/26161828/9781479823987.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250518T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250518T180000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250319T194014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T194014Z UID:22232-1747587600-1747591200@nyupress.org SUMMARY:The Origins of Critical Race Theory - Octavia's Bookshelf DESCRIPTION:Join the co-authors of The Origins of Critical Race Theory in Pasadena\, CA! URL:/event/the-origins-of-critical-race-theory-octavias-bookshelf/ LOCATION:Octavia’s Bookshelf\, 1361 North Hill Ave.\, Pasadena\, California\, 91104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/04174854/9781479832675-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250523T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250523T170000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250324T183256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T183317Z UID:22419-1748016000-1748019600@nyupress.org SUMMARY:Corinna Barrett Lain - "Secrets of the Killing State" - Shannon Heffernan DESCRIPTION:Lethal injection is nothing like what you think. This is its untold story. \nCorinna Barrett Lain will discuss Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection. She will be joined in conversation by Shannon Heffernan. A Q&A and signing will follow. \nAt the Co-op \nRSVP Here (Please note your RSVP is requested\, but not required) \nAbout the Book \nSecrets of the Killing State pulls back the curtain of secrecy\, using shocking revelations about lethal injection to shine a light on the American death penalty more broadly. In the popular imagination\, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by well-qualified medical professionals. It is regulated and carefully conducted. And it is the most “humane” form of capital punishment. In reality\, not one of those things is true. \nWe are now over 45 years into the lethal injection era\, and most Americans still have no idea what states are doing in their name. It’s time they found out. \nAbout the Author \nCorinna Barrett Lain is the S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law. She is a legal historian and one of the nation’s leading authorities on the death penalty generally\, and lethal injection in particular. Professor Lain’s work has appeared in the most prestigious law journals in the nation\, and has been cited by the Supreme Court as well as numerous other courts. Professor Lain is an Army veteran\, former prosecutor\, and recipient of the University of Richmond’s Distinguished Educator Award\, the highest award that the University bestows. \nAbout the Interlocutor \nShannon Heffernan is a staff writer for The Marshall Project covering prisons and jails. Heffernan recently joined the Marshall Project after15 years as a public radio reporter\, for WBEZ examining issues such as prisons\, policing\, poverty and the environment. During her tenure at WBEZ\, she was the lead reporter and host of Season Four of WBEZ’s “Motive\,” a podcast investigating abuse and corruption in small town prisons in Illinois and a co-reporter on “16 Shots\, the police killing of Laquan Mcdonald”. Her work has been honored with a National Murrow Award for best writing and a National Headliner Award\, among many others. She also writes short fiction and has been published Hobart\, The Indiana Review and The Columbia Review\, where she won the 2016 prize for fiction.\n\n\nEvent Location:\n\n\n\n\nSeminary Co-op Bookstores \n5751 S Woodlawn\nChicago\, IL 60637 \n\n\nSee map: Google Maps URL:/event/corinna-barrett-lain-secrets-of-the-killing-state-shannon-heffernan/ LOCATION:Seminary Co-op\, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/24143313/FotoJet_2_50.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250524T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250524T170000 DTSTAMP:20250402T142604 CREATED:20250319T194639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T194639Z UID:22235-1748098800-1748106000@nyupress.org SUMMARY:The Origins of Critical Race Theory - Medicine for Nightmares DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith to the store for a reading and discussion in celebration of their new book\, The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas that Created a Movement. URL:/event/the-origins-of-critical-race-theory-medicine-for-nightmares/ LOCATION:Medicine for Nightmares\, 3036 24th Street\, San Francisco\, California\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/nyupress-wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/04174854/9781479832675-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR