dream machine 1:  seismicity 

Monday, November 4, 2–4pm
Taft Research Center  

Listen with and consider the history of geophones in making and unmaking worlds. Optional readings: selections from Macarena Gómez-Barris’s The Extractive Zone and Adam Bobbette’s Sound of Magma. The session will center a score/prompt for development of individual practices and research. 

Part of Zines & Dream Machines 

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The Parables RPG Play Session with Jay Africa

November 14, 4­–6pm
Taft Research Center 
Registration required: https://bit.ly/4f37VGW

November 15, 4–6pm
Africana Studies Student Lounge, French Hall 3616
Registration required: https://bit.ly/3BHQ1Li

The Parables is a Role-Playing Game (RPG) set in the universe of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Jay Africa will run two virtual game sessions. Nov 14 is “On the Road,” playing as travelers coming together as Earthseed. Nov 15 is “Acorn,” playing as young Earthseed building its first established community. 

Part of Play Sessions & Creative Conversations

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dream machine 2: electromagnetism  

with Celeste Oram

Monday, November 18, 1-3pm 
Taft Research Center & Zoom 
Registration required: https://bit.ly/4hutxxI 

Use and make EMF (electromagnetic frequency) microphones to listen with the hidden sounds of infrastructure and technological devices, considering the electromagnetic spectrum as resource and space of law. Optional listening: Determi-Nation podcast, by Darrah Blackwater, incl. Spectrum Sovereignty Explained with Mariel Triggs and Māori Spectrum Rights with Antony Royal. The session will center a “collective worldmaking” score/prompt from Celeste using participatory radio.

Part of Zines & Dream Machines 

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Weather Reading Group Discussion 

Friday, November 22, 3:30pm
Taft Research Center

Hi’ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart’s Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment

Part of Weather and Critical Walks  

Speaking Truth to Power

A Conversation with Lupe Gonzalo
Monday, September 23, 11am–noon 739 Steger
Presented in Spanish with English translation

The presentation will be delivered by Lupe Gonzalo, an indigenous Guatemalan woman and migrant farmworker of 12 years before getting involved in the fight for Fair Food. Since then, Lupe has become a prominent leader in a global human rights movement ensuring humane working and living standards for low-wage workers. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a farmworker-led human rights organization that has been on the frontlines of combating abuses in U.S. agriculture, including forced labor and sexual assault for over 25 years. The presentation is part of their efforts to get people to come and see the Two Worlds Exhibit—a museum cataloging the history of exploitation within the agricultural industry and farmworker organizing for human rights.

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Worlding Vampires

A Conversation between Julia B. Ellingboe and Katherine Castiello Jones

October 29, 4–5:30pm
Taft Research Center