Inequalities Unmasked: What Pandemics Reveal about American Society from the Spanish Flu to COVID-19

Mayer Auditorium

Keith Wailoo is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he previously served as Vice Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs and Chair of the Department of History. The current president of the American Association for the History of Medicine, his research straddles history and health

California Dystopia: Understanding Climate Change and Social Collapse through Science Fiction

Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 3550 Trousdale Parkway,, Los Angeles, CA

In the fall of 2020, when wildfires turned the once-blue skies of California into a glowing orange hellscape—all amid a viral pandemic marked by severe racial and social disparities and protests over police violence against communities of color—some of the darkest fiction about California’s future seemed especially prescient. Moderated by Los Angeles Times culture columnist

LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze

California African American Museum

Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier works in photography, video, and performance to build visual archives that address industrialization, Rust Belt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, family, and community history. Frazier’s work is exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, and she is currently an assistant professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute

Tracing Our Creative Origins: A Workshop with Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik

Location TBD

In conjunction with the release event for her book, We Make Constellations of the Stars, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik will lead a hands-on workshop inviting participants to trace their creative origins through art. Using art as a strategy to connect memory and history with urgent social issues, the visual artist, food-justice organizer, and co-founder of the

Borrowed Recipes: Migrant Food Worlds of the Silk Roads

Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 3550 Trousdale Parkway,, Los Angeles, CA

Many of the foods we enjoy in Los Angeles arrived via long journeys along the ancient Silk Roads, and are the result of countless exchanges between cultures in East and Central Asia, Persia, Western Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean. Join us for a conversation about these often hidden—and delicious—culinary histories moderated by science writer