[Chass-gradstudents] Fwd: [Englishgrad] Please join us tomorrow to celebrate the legacy of Lindon Barrett 3 PM HMNSS 1500

[Perla Fabelo]

Dear Graduate Students,
Circulating this announcement.  I hope that most can attend the
Lindon Barrett Award talk tomorrow 3-4:30pm in Humanities 1500.
Best,
Perla

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From: James Tobias via Englishgrad <englishgrad at lists.ucr.edu>
Date: Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Subject: [Englishgrad] Please join us tomorrow to celebrate the legacy of
Lindon Barrett 3 PM HMNSS 1500
To: GSEA English <englishgrad at lists.ucr.edu>


Hello GSEA,

This is a reminder that this year’s winner of the Lindon Barrett Award,
Donald Zarate (Political Science), will be presenting the 2024-2025 Lindon
Barrett Award talk tomorrow at 3 - 4:30 PM Thursday December 4 in HMNSS
1500.

Donald will be presenting on his essay “Here and Now”:

"This talk draws on my essay "Here and Now" to reconsider what “utopia”
means when grounded in the everyday practices of Black life. Instead of
imagining utopia as a far-off ideal – or dismissing it as an impossible
dream – I argue that Black intellectual and creative traditions show how it
emerges in the ordinary work of making life livable under constraint – of
living *otherwise*. Bringing utopian studies in conversation with thinkers
such as Paget Henry, Janya Brown, and Katherine McKittrick, I develop the
idea of a “Black Differential”: the uneven distribution of antiutopian
disenchantment across racialized experience. Attending to this differential
shows how Black life makes visible the intimate interplay of structure,
agency, and imagination—where survival itself becomes a speculative act. By
foregrounding these *quotidian*enactments of living *otherwise*, I invite
scholars to see utopia as something enacted  *otherwise*   and *now* rather
than relegated to an *elsewhere *or *elsewhen*, reframing both the limits
and the possibilities of imagining otherwise."

English will be providing light refreshments.

Please join us - and please do feel free to distribute this notice widely.

Take care,

jt

—
James Tobias, Ph.D.
Professor
Chair, Department of English

https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95465985946?pwd=Z1A4Yk1UZDhBTjY5UkJ5R1VQTWUvQT09

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