David et al. 2024. PNAS. Saccharomycotina yeasts defy long-standing macroecological patterns. https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2316031121 (https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2316031121)

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This series of three seminars in the Global Voices Feminist Theory and Gender Section Seminar Series will take us on a journey of sense making, justice talking and relationship cultivating against and beyond the logics and (ir)rationalities of the genocidal. We foreground the global as genocidal as this logic of anti-life (re)produces the global not as innocence and progress but as hetero-patriarchal(settler) coloniality as dispossession and violation of territories of land/Country and body/flesh and disavowal of Indigenous sovereignties and anti-Blackness. We do not do this to speak yet again of the violences and violations but to grieve together as dignity, politicise our rage, and stand in irreverent defiance against our annihilation as racialised and feminised queer and trans peoples, poets, philosophers, lovers, (m)others, siblings and kin. We foreground the rebellious, (our) survivance, the plural sided nature of our knowing-being and re-existencias on the exteriority of the barbed wire fence of the colonial divide. The first in our series 'On resisting and survivance despite genocide' welcomes two activist scholars Dr Hawzhin Azeez and Dr Jumana Bayeh in dialogue with FTGS Incoming Section Chair Dr Sara C. Motta who stand at the front lines in relation to their communities and kin and the struggle for freedom, sovereignty and survivance. PANELISTS: Hawzhin Azeez (Macquarie University), Jumana Bayeh (The Kurdish Center for Studies), and Sara C. Motta (University of Newcastle) Interested in staying up-to-date on all of ISA's virtual programming? Sign up for ISA Connected here: https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Virtual-Programs/ISA-Connected (https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Virtual-Programs/ISA-Connected)

International Education Week 2024 kicks off with a screening of Brief Tender Light, a 2023 documentary by Arthur Musah. English. 93 minutes.  As undergraduate students at America's premier technological university, a group of ambitious African students come of age, learning lessons in and beyond the classroom. They embarked on their MIT education with individual ambitions – to run a civil engineering company and be a shining example for girls in Tanzania; to secure a better life for family in northern Nigeria; to contribute to postgenocide reconstruction in Rwanda; to enter into politics and the fight for democracy in Zimbabwe. Their missions are distinct, but fueled by a common goal: to become agents of positive change back home. Even as their dreams are anchored in the societies they have left, their daily realities are defined by America – by the immediate challenges in their MIT classrooms and the larger social issues confronting the world outside of those classrooms. Their new environment demands they adapt. Each is forced to refine their ideas about the world and about themselves, ultimately deciding how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to transform youthful ideals into adult action.This is an Honors Event. See tags below for categories. #UHLevent10982