MacMillan Hall, Room 117 (Starr Auditorium), 167 Thayer St, Providence RI 02912
An interdisciplinary panel of Brown University faculty will discuss the cultural resonance of the film Black Panther in terms of art, science, technology, social justice, and current affairs.
CSREA, 96 Waterman Street, Providence RI 02912
Naoko Shibusawa (Associate Professor of History and American Studies) on how to teach under complex conditions, reach your students, challenge and inspire them.
These workshops, led by Brown University faculty, were designed to support graduate student research on race and ethnicity, build research community across disciplines, and aid in the professional development of Brown graduate students.
CSREA, 96 Waterman Street, Providence RI 02912
The hyper-focus on refugee suffering, desperation, and neediness in media and social science scholarship have represented refugees as passive recipients of western generosity and increasingly as the targets of racial profiling, surveillance, and detention. This seminar invites participants to chart new approaches to refugee studies that integrate theoretical rigor and policy concerns with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds—approaches that fuse the critical and the creative.
Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert '62 Center, 75 Waterman Street, Providence RI 02912
Joining the fields of transnational feminist studies with critical refugee studies, this talk introduces the concept feminist refugee epistemology (FRE) to re-conceptualize war-based displacement as not only about social disorder and interruption but also about social reproduction and innovation. FRE does more than critique Western media representation of refugees; it underlines the refugees' rich and complicated lives, the ways in which they enact their hopes, beliefs, and politics, even when they live militarized lives.
CSREA, 96 Waterman Street, Providence RI
Sofian Merabet will introduce a new work, which is fictional in nature, but still based on archival research and ethnographic interviews. He will discuss the context of this work and elaborated on potential problems in terms of methodology.
IBES Room 130, 85 Waterman Street, Providence RI 02912
This paper engages with the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon and, specifically, considers how queer-identified Syrians navigate an often-hostile environment in and around the Lebanese capital Beirut. Drawing on hospitality as a philosophical concept and on the sociological notion of the stranger, this paper focuses on discourses and aspirations these refugees express, in terms of language and bodily practices, in the face of what many experience as “hardened borders” within the social fabric of the host country.
CSREA, 96 Waterman Street, Providence RI 02912
This event presents an opportunity for faculty and stuff to learn about Professor Lindsey's research process for her 2017 book, "Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C."
Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing Street, Providence RI 02912
Dr. Treva Lindsey is an Associate Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. explores the untold history of Black women in the nation’s capital who transformed the burgeoning city into a Black intellectual, cultural, and political center.
Salomon Center for Teaching, Deciccio Auditorium
Presented as part of PITH (Politics in the Humanities) and co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.
IBES Room 130 (Carmichael Auditorium), 85 Waterman Street, Providence RI
Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH, will give the presentation, "The Flint Water Crisis: A Journey for Justice" at Brown University on Thursday, March 1, 2018. This talk is part of Building Health Equity in an Unequal World, a collaborative lecture series presented by the Brown University School of Public Health and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.