Dr. Thomas W. Laqueur is the the Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at UC, Berkeley, and specializes in the cultural history of the body, and in the history of humanitarianism and of popular religion and literacy. His books include Work of the Dead; Solitary Sex; Making Sex; and Religion and Respectability. He is a fellow…
Dr. Thomas W. Laqueur is the the Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at UC, Berkeley, and specializes in the cultural history of the body, and in the history of humanitarianism and of popular religion and literacy. His books include Work of the Dead; Solitary Sex; Making Sex; and Religion and Respectability. He is a fellow…
Combining passionate originality and fierce authenticity, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba take West African dance music into new territory—literally, the North Carolina Piedmont. The repertoire is pure Manding, the centuries-old musical culture of Cissokho’s ancestors. It’s reformulated with modernizing impulses in a rock band format: Agile basslines interweave with the melodic twins of kora and…
Combining passionate originality and fierce authenticity, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba take West African dance music into new territory—literally, the North Carolina Piedmont. The repertoire is pure Manding, the centuries-old musical culture of Cissokho’s ancestors. It’s reformulated with modernizing impulses in a rock band format: Agile basslines interweave with the melodic twins of kora and…
Mohammad Moussa’s multimedia and spoken word performance honors the memory of Deah Shaddy Barakat, Deah’s wife, Yusor Mohammad, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, members of the Wolfpack community who were killed in Chapel Hill in 2015. In this powerful performance, Moussa reflects on how communities confront grief in the wake of tragedy, and how…
Mohammad Moussa’s multimedia and spoken word performance honors the memory of Deah Shaddy Barakat, Deah’s wife, Yusor Mohammad, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, members of the Wolfpack community who were killed in Chapel Hill in 2015. In this powerful performance, Moussa reflects on how communities confront grief in the wake of tragedy, and how…