Past Events

What Rick Baldoz is Thinking About Now

CSREA - Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America

Sovereignty vs. Subversion: Cold War Immigration Politics and the Metastasis of the US Security State

Rick Baldoz, Associate Professor of American Studies

This talk will explore how the entanglement of US immigration policy and national security imperatives during the early decades of the Cold War. I will also examine how the coercive machinery of the USRead More

Critical Conversations: Environmental Justice

CSREA - Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
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Critical Conversations, one of CSREA’s signature discussion series, invites scholars to explore a central topic through the lens of race.

This event gathers scholars of environmental justice to discuss the uneven burdens presented by climate change, linkages between race and urban policy, and how communities are resisting the effects of extractive capitalism.

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Spring Colloquium Series: Kessie Alexandre

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Herbert Goldberger fund
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Kessie Alexandre, University of Washington will present “Climate Resilience and Urban Recovery in Newark’s Green Spaces.”Read More

First Annual Department of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) Distinguished Lecture: Denise Ferreira da Silva

The Department of Modern Culture and Media
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Please join us for the first Annual Department of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) Distinguished Lecture with Denise Ferreira da Silva.

4PM Screening

Serpent Rain (2016)

4Waters/Deep Implicancy (2018)

Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum (2020)

6PM Lecture

Reception to follow. Read More

First Annual Modern Culture and Media Distinguished Lecture: Denise Ferreira da Silva

The Department of Modern Culture and Media
, 305

Please join us for the First Annual Modern Culture and Media Distinguished Lecture with Denise Ferreira da Silva.

4PM Screening | Elemental Cinema:

Serpent Rain (2016)

4Waters/Deep Implicancy (2018)

Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum (2020)

6PM Lecture

Reception to follow. Read More

Improving Academic Writing

CSREA - Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America

CSREA is pleased to host a series of professionalization workshops over lunch for graduate students studying race, ethnicity, and indigeneity at Brown. 

Improving Academic Writing

Austin Jackson, Professor of the Practice of Nonfiction Writing, Department of English

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We’re in this Together: Notes on Solidarity and Collaboration

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

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New Book Talks: Skinfolk, Matthew Pratt Guterl

CSREA (Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America)
, True North Classroom

 

CSREA’s New Book Talks highlight new and notable works studying race, ethnicity, and indigeneity. They facilitate thought-provoking and critical engagement with emerging scholarship.

Kinfolk: A Memoir

Matthew Pratt Guterl, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies

Skinfolk is a haunting,Read More

Teaching Bad Ideas: Race in the Classroom

CSREA - Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America

CSREA is pleased to host a series of professionalization workshops over lunch for graduate students studying race, ethnicity, and indigeneity at Brown. 

Publishing: Strategies and Best Practices for Success

Andre Willis, Associate Professor of Religious Studies

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Racism in Health Care and Social Services from a Canadian Context: Exploring Indigenous Experiences of Pregnancy, Birthing and Parenting

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

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