ICM LECTURE SERIES
JULIANA HU PEGUES (Cornell University)
COLONIALISM IS GORGES: THE CONFLUENCE OF RACIAL CAPITALISM AND SETTLER FEMINISM
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | 4:45 p.m.—6:15 p.m.
Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Free and open to the public
The Institute for Comparative Modernities is delighted to host colleague Juliana Hu Pegues for a lecture on her current research, "Colonialism is Gorges: The Confluence of Racial Capitalism and Settler Feminism."
Juliana Hu Pegues is Associate Professor of Literatures in English, and is affliated with Asian American Studies and American Indian and Indigenous Studies Programs at Cornell. Her book Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) was awarded the 2022 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize from the American Studies Association and the 2022 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History Association.
