Full Program Available for Term 2 Sawchen/Ziegler Lecture Series



The comprehensive Sawchen/Ziegler Lecture Series program is now available for Winter 2020 Term 2. Unless otherwise noted, the recording of each lecture will be made available on cIRcle after the live virtual event.


Ziegler Lecture: “Queer of Color Activism in Decolonial Europe”

January 13, 12:00 pm (noon)

Fatima El-Tayeb (University of California San Diego)

Sawchen Lecture: “Road, River, and Book: the Russian Literary Underworld”

January 26, 2:00 pm

Barbara Henry (University of Washington Seattle)

Sawchen Lecture: “Attuning to the Roma”

February 4, 12:30 pm

Ioanida Costache (Stanford University, Department of Music)

Ziegler Lecture: “Interwar Liederabende and the Matter of Blackness”

February 5, 12:00 pm (noon)

Kira Thurman (University of Michigan, History Department)

Ziegler Lecture: “Spatial Politics with Berlin Black History Month Celebrations”

February 24, 4:00 pm

Tiffany Florvil (University of New Mexico)

Ziegler Lecture: “From Celebrity to Saint: Angela Davis in East Germany”

March 3, 12:00 pm (noon)

Jamele Watkins (University of Minnesota)

Sawchen Lecture: “Russia’s Day of Love, Family and Fidelity”

March 16, 11:00 am

Nick Mayhew (Stanford University)

Sawchen Lecture: “Queer Periodicals in Post-Soviet Russia: From Leningrad Underground to Transnational Publishing”

March 26, 11:00 am

Philip Gleissner (Ohio State University)

Ziegler Lecture: “Other Europes in Moments of Post-Otherness”

April 8, 11:00 am

Regina Römhild (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt University of Berlin)