The 43rd Annual Student Juried Exhibition will be on view at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts from March 18 through April 16, 2023. This year’s exhibition is juried by Lani Asunción and Xander Marro.
Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, March 23, 6–8pm!
Alexis Pauline Gumbs will take part in Writers on Writing, a series of presentations by contemporary authors that includes presentations from published and new work and a chance for the audience to ask questions of the author.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her workRead More
Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil RightsRead More
This moderated conversation brings together faculty and scholars situated in Africana, Latinx, and Asian American Studies to discuss solidarity as a practice in support of diversity and inclusion in higher education.
Tuesday, April 11 from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library
Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Sarah Doyle Center Gender Equity Series
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Join the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative and the Sarah Doyle Center Gender Equity Series for a virtual talk by Ashley Hayward (Red River Métis), PhD candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba. The talk will be followed by a Q&A and discussion moderated by Sarah Williams, Louise Lamphere Visiting AssistantRead More
Even though the War on Terror is officially over, policies and practices put into place to keep Americans “safe” from the racialized terrorist threat persist. What began as a means to control the “Islamic terrorist” has been widened to incorporate a range of threats to the status quo from the “eco-terrorist” and Occupy Wall Street activists to Black Lives Matter and Native American activistsRead More
“The emancipation of the soul involves surrender – the surrender of a lower self, the surrender of legend to fact, the surrender of narrow to wide horizons, the surrender to exclusive to inclusive fellowships.” – Fred L. Brownlee, former corresponding secretary of the American Missionary Association.
In 1942, Dr. Charles S. Johnson began a series of seminars known as the Race Relations Institute (RRI) on the campus of Fisk University which was funded in part by the American Missionary Association. This forum encouraged notable figures to offer research and discussion on racial parity, and it created a standard method for holding a national dialogue on race.Read More
