CSREA Conference Room, Hillel 303, 80 Brown Street
CSREA invites you to a small, informal lunch conversation with Prof. John Johnson, Professor of Astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, on his experiences in STEM and his advice for other students of color in STEM fields. What kinds of obstacles do underrepresented minorities face in STEM fields? What kinds of strategies helped clear pathways?
Pembroke 305, 172 Meeting Street
CSREA, Third Floor of Hillel, 80 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912
October 2014 - May 2015
Photographs of Brown community members sharing their experiences with racial microaggressions and microaffirmations. This exhibit is part of a broader movement to help make visible the reality and negative impact of racial microaggressions on building a just community.
CSREA, Third Floor of Hillel, 80 Brown Street
We invited students, faculty, staff and other members of the Brown community to share their experiences with racial microaggressions and microaffirmations. This exhibit is part of a broader movement to help make visible the reality and negative impact of racial microaggressions on buillding a just community.
CSREA Conference Room, Hillel 303, 80 Brown Street
What I Am Thinking About Now: Professor Lundy Braun (Medical Science, Africana Studies)
The spirometer is a medical device that measures lung function. The "correction" of these measurements for race is a routine practice in medical diagnosis of lung disease. In this workshop Braun will discuss the history of this practice, its applications, and why it is problematic.
Salomon 101
Events surrounding the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri have re-ignited conversations about racism, inequality, and increasingly militaristic policing practices in black and brown communities across the US. This Teach-In strives to create a space for campus dialogue; provide social and historical context for these events and consider the impact of emerging and ongoing portrayals and responses.
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CSREA Conference Room, Hillel 303, 80 Brown Street
What I Am Thinking About Now: Professor Brenda Marie Osbey (Africana Studies)
In this presentation, Professor Osbey explores the ways in which New Orleans Traditional Religion provides and promotes healing, and whether it is possible or desirable to apply traditional healing to contemporary experience in the City.
Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Martinos Auditorium
In this conversation, actress, performance artist, and motivational speaker Tracee Ellis Ross '94 shared stories about her years on the hit TV series "Girlfriends" and discussed race, her body, her career, and how she responds to images and expectations of women of color in entertainment.
Tracee Ellis Ross '94, actress, performance artist, and motivational speaker; professor Tricia Rose '93, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) at Brown University
How can you allow your artistic spirit to empower you to reach your potential, to remain flexible and open, and contribute the most to the world? This graduation weekend workshop, led by Brown alum, award winning actress and performance artist Tracee Ellis Ross '94 will enable students to tap into their creative energies. Participants will engage in fun and powerful exercises that explore some of Ross’ best practices for harnessing the elusive well of creativity.
Petteruti Lounge, Robert Center, 75 Waterman Street
What does it mean to talk about race across different disciplines in Asian and Asian American Studies configured as the Asias? This symposium brings together four prominent scholars to speculate on the intersection of their work in the transcolonial border zones of the Asias to lay the foundation for future conversations in history, ethnic studies, performance studies, and social movements.