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
September 19, 7pm | Zoom
Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Vincent Bevins, and Amy Goodman (moderator)
The Imperialist Roots of the U.S.A.
October 3, 6pm | Hybrid
Manu Karuka
UMass Amherst Student Union Ballroom and Zoom
U.S. Empire in Asia and the Pacific: Repression and Resistance
November 1, 7pm | Zoom
Nerissa S. Balce, Brian Hioe, Moon-Ho Jung, and Sigrid Schmalzer (moderator)
ELLSBERG LECTURE
The Human Toll of America’s Air Wars
November 15, 7pm | Hybrid
Azmat Khan
UMass Amherst Student Union Ballroom and Zoom
Vietnam Era Antiwar Movement: Successes, Failures, and Legacies
December 1, 7pm | Zoom
W. D. Ehrhart, Carolyn Eisenberg, Daniel Ellsberg, Ngo Vinh Long, and Judith Ehrlich (moderator)
JAMES BALDWIN LECTURE
None of Us Is Free Unless All Are Free: Anti-Imperialism and the Black Radical Tradition
February 23, 6pm | Hybrid
Bill Fletcher Jr.
UMass Amherst Bowker Auditorium and Zoom
Feminists Against Empire:
Resistance to U.S. Sanctions and Embargoes
March 7, 7pm | Zoom
Liz Oliva Fernández, Alejandra Laprea, and Diana Sierra Becerra (moderator)
Resisting Imperial Memory:
Confronting the History of U.S. Aggression in Iraq
March 23, 4pm | Zoom
Dave Inder Comar, Kali Rubaii, Nazli Tarzi, and Ross Caputi (moderator)
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
