Past Events

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

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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
, (Link to come)

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

The Black Bedroom: A Talk by Shoniqua Roach

Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women

A Pembroke Seminar “In the Afterlives and Aftermaths of Ruin” Talk

The Black Bedroom

By Shoniqua Roach, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University

 

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Deepa Kumar ─ Terrorcraft: Why Racial Control Regimes Persist

Costs of War and Watson Institute
, Joukowsky Forum

Even though the War on Terror is officially over, policies and practices put into place to keep Americans “safe” from the racialized terrorist threat persist. What began as a means to control the “Islamic terrorist” has been widened to incorporate a range of threats to the status quo from the “eco-terrorist” and Occupy Wall Street activists to Black Lives Matter and Native American activistsRead More

Opening Reception: 43rd Annual Student Juried Exhibition

Brown Arts Institute

Please join us for the opening reception for the 43rd Annual Student Juried Exhibition! Refreshments will be provided.

The 43rd Annual Student Juried Exhibition will be on view at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts from March 18 through April 16, 2023. This year’s exhibition is juried by Lani Asunción and Xander Marro. Learn more about the exhibition and jurorsRead More

kihana miraya ross, “Black Space in Education: On antiblackness in schools, educational fugitivity, and how we get free”

The Department of Education and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform
, Room 102

In this talk, I explore what it means for Black students to navigate, refuse, and resist antiblackness in schools. I take seriously the ways slavery and its afterlives continue to mark Black learners, and yet I am committed to understanding how we carve out space – how

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Hunger and Hierarchy: Provision Grounds and Enslaved Peoples’ Survival in Early 19th Century Jamaica

Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (CSSJ)

Enslaved people in nineteenth century Jamaica were often hungry. Enslavers forced enslaved people to do back-breaking labor in tropical heat, while providing minimal to no nourishment themselves. In most cases, rather, enslaved people were compelled to cultivate their own gardens and provision grounds, growing everything from root vegetables and fruits to herbs and spices. The success ofRead More

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