Dawit L. Petros is a visual artist, researcher and educator. His work is informed by studies of global modernisms, theories of diaspora, and postcolonial studies. Throughout the past decade, he has focused on a critical re-reading of the entanglements between colonialism and modernity. Petros is an Eritrean emigrant who spent formative years in Eritrea,Read More

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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.

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art ofRead More

Second screening: Negotiating Amnesia (Alessandra Ferrini, 2015, 29 minutes).

Introduction by Leonora Masini, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Slavery and the Public Humanities at the CSSJ.

The 30-minutes Q&A after the screening will host director Alessandra Ferrini.

This is the second of twoRead More

Join Sequoria “Coco” Dickerson as she shares stories of little known herbal traditions and rituals practiced by African Americans during slavery in the United States.This workshop is grounded in sharing the stories of enslaved African American herbalists who worked with plants for healing justice, liberation, and ancestral reclamation. Come hear stories of how they used herbal practices toRead More

Join the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative on February 15 as we welcome Brown University students, staff, and faculty members back to campus with a screening of an Upstander Project film, Dawnland.Read More

The Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity invites you to attend the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on Wednesday, February 15 from 4-5:30 p.m.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president emeritus of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will deliver a lecture Read More

First film screening: Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (Tony Buba, 2014, 56 minutes).

Introduction by Leonora Masini, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Slavery and the Public Humanities at the CSSJ. The 30-minutes Q&A after the screening will host Prof. Marcus Rediker, Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of PittsburghRead More

This talk will be held via Zoom.

In this talk, Xine Yao will explore the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. Yao will trace how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,Read More

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Join Prof. Keisha N. Blain and Peniel E. Joseph in conversation about his most recent publication, The Third Reconstruction. 

“In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020Read More

The newly launched Democracy Project is pleased to announce a lecture with Professor Eddie Glaude. One of the nation’s most prominent scholars, Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr. is an author, political commentator, public intellectual and passionate educator who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience. His writings, including Democracy in Black:Read More