Past Events

Dr. Jean Shim Yun Lecture in Asian American Studies

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
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Thinking Out Loud - The Disappearing Chip: How Quantum Nano-Electronics Disrupts Our Lives

The President’s Office

Join us for

“The Disappearing Chip: How Quantum Nano-Electronics Disrupts Our Lives”

Featuring Nadya Mason, Rosalyn S. Yalow Professor of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, September 27, 2022
5:30-7 p.m.

From washing machines to cars, our daily lives are integrated with nanoscale electronic elements. But as transistors, aRead More

HUGs + STEM Lunchtime Conversation Series: Nadya Mason

CSREA - Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
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Please join us for lunch with Nadya Mason, Rosalyn S. Yalow Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Mason will engage in conversation with CSREA Director, Tricia Rose about women and people of color in STEM. What are the opportunities? What are the visible and invisible barriers and hurdles? What are some good strategies for leveling theRead More

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Nutmeg and the Scale of Revolution: for Audre Lorde”

Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
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The inaugural event of the Pembroke Center Publics Initiative and Lecture Series will feature Alexis Pauline Gumbs, who describes herself as a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Gumbs is a writer whose feministRead More

Natasha Warikoo, “Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools”

The Department of Education

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the United States today, and Asian American youth overall are outperforming their white peers academically. In this talk, Warikoo brings us into an upper-middle-class suburb in which these trends make their way into the local high school. She describes how many white parents attempt to protect their children’s status by calling forRead More

Ascendancy and Anticolonialism in the Narragansett Country

Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
, CSSJ Seminar Room
Join The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice visiting assistant professor, Mack Scott, for a presentation on his area of research.
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What Emily Lim Rogers is Thinking About Now

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)

A core component of CSREA is supporting faculty and advanced students in the development of cutting-edge, collaborative intellectual work. “What I Am Thinking About Now” is an informal workshop/seminar series where faculty and graduate students present recently published works and works in progress for early-stage feedback and development.

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Color Crossings: Race, Affect, Aesthetics

Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
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The 2022 Pembroke Center Research Roundtable, “Color Crossings: Race, Affect, Aesthetics,” considers color’s metaphorical, linguistic, philosophical, historical, perceptual and practical resonances at the crossroads of critical race theory and color theory. In drawing together these distinct but overlapping discourses, we ask how global histories of race, gender, sex and class are connectedRead More

New Book Talks - Anne Gray Fischer, The Streets Belong to Us

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)

CSREA’s New Book Talks highlight new and notable works studying race, ethnicity, and indigeneity from scholars both internal and external to Brown. They facilitate thought-provoking and critical engagement with emerging scholarship.

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Graduate Workshop Series: Writing with Austin Jackson

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)

These faculty-led workshops support graduate student research while building the skills necessary for sustained success in today’s competitive job and publishing markets.

During this event, Professor Austin Jackson (Professor of the Practice, Nonfiction Writing Program, English) will discuss how to demystify academic writing tasks and how to work through writing blocks.

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