HL90 ES: Prison Abolition

Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for an HL90 seminar this spring! Read more about Thomas Dichter’s returning class, “Prison Abolition”: Tell us about your class! This Mindich Engaged Scholarship course will give students an opportunity to apply historical and literary methods to studying the prison abolitionist movement, while also getting hands-on experience working withContinue reading “HL90 ES: Prison Abolition”

HL90 FR: Latinx, 1492 to 2022

We have new HL90s this semester! Tommy Conners is teaching “Latinx, 1492 to 2022” this spring, Tuesday 9:45-11:45. What ideas do you want the class to dig into? Is latinidad cancelled? In 2018, Afroindigenous poet and artist Alán Peláez López declared it was, calling out the concept’s attachments to whiteness at the expense of BlacknessContinue reading “HL90 FR: Latinx, 1492 to 2022”

HL90 AN: God Save the Queen! Ruling Women from Rome to the Renaissance

We’ve got lots of great HL90s to check out this spring, including Sean Gilsdorf’s “God Save the Queen! Ruling Women from Rome to the Renaissance”! Tell us about your class! Like the title suggests, this is a class about women who wielded power many centuries ago, and the complicated ways that their gender complicated butContinue reading “HL90 AN: God Save the Queen! Ruling Women from Rome to the Renaissance”

HL90 FT: A Luta Continua: Legacies of Portuguese Empire

The HL90 preview event is today at 2pm! We hope to see you there, but you can also read more about Lilly Havstad’s new class “A Luta Continua: Legacies of Portuguese Empire” now! What inspired you to teach this class? I’ll begin answering this question by sharing that my father, who passed away last winter,Continue reading “HL90 FT: A Luta Continua: Legacies of Portuguese Empire”

HL90 FL: Indigenous in the City

Remember, tomorrow is the priority deadline for submitting an HL90 application! Still looking? Check out Morgan Ridgway’s class, “Indigenous in the City,” which meets Monday, 3-5. Read more about it below! What inspired you to teach this class? The majority of Indigenous peoples in what is the United States live in and around urban spacesContinue reading “HL90 FL: Indigenous in the City”