2022-2023 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series

Presented by the UMass Amherst History Department in Collaboration with the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy and Partners

“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government…. I cannot be silent.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam,” April 4, 1967

Series Events

Free. Online / Hybrid. Open to All.

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Closed captions & Spanish interpretation available. All times are Eastern time. Events will be live and recorded.


KEYNOTE

U.S. Policy in the Global South

Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Vincent Bevins, and Amy Goodman (moderator), September 19, 2022

This video is in English and Spanish with English subtitles. Click here to view it entirely in English or entirely in Spanish.


The Imperialist Roots of the U.S.A.

Manu Karuka, October 3, 2022

UMass Amherst Student Union Ballroom and Zoom


U.S. Empire in Asia and the Pacific: Repression and Resistance

Nerissa S. Balce, Brian Hioe, Moon-Ho Jung, and Sigrid Schmalzer (moderator), November 1, 2022

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ELLSBERG LECTURE

The Human Toll of America’s Air Wars

Azmat Khan, November 15, 7pm

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UMass Amherst Student Union Ballroom and Zoom


Vietnam Era Antiwar Movement: Successes, Failures, and Legacies

W. D. Ehrhart, Carolyn Eisenberg, Daniel Ellsberg, Nguyet Nguyen, and Judith Ehrlich (moderator), December 1, 7pm

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JAMES BALDWIN LECTURE

None of Us Is Free Unless All Are Free: Anti-Imperialism and the Black Radical Tradition

Bill Fletcher Jr., February 23, 2023

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Feminists Against Empire:
Resistance to U.S. Sanctions and Embargoes

Liz Oliva Fernández, Alejandra Laprea, and Diana Sierra Becerra (moderator), March 7, 2023

This video is in English and Spanish with English subtitles. Click here to view it entirely in English or entirely in Spanish.


Resisting Imperial Memory:
Confronting the History of U.S. Aggression in Iraq

Dave Inder Comar, Salman Khairalla, Kali Rubaii, Nazli Tarzi, and Ross Caputi (moderator), March 23, 2023

A Spanish language version will be available by Monday, March 27.


The Poetry of War and Resistance

April 3, 7pm | Zoom

Carolyn Forché, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dunya Mikhail, Ocean Vuong, and Ru Freeman (moderator)


Teaching Empire

Ongoing | In Person

Brian Brown and Alison Russell

UMass Amherst Herter Hall