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Please join us on Tuesday, November 28, at 12pm-1pm for a "What I Am Thinking About Now" presentation by Nicholas Laluk, Postdoctoral Fellow with CSREA and the Department of Anthropology, titled "'Nígosdzán is a Living, Breathing Woman': Power, the Natural World, and Healing in Ndee (Apache) Institutions"

Please join us on Thursday, November 30, at 12pm-1pm for a "What I Am Thinking About Now" presentation by Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, titled "A Politics of Tenderness."

Matthew Guterl (Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies, Chair of American Studies) on how to get journal articles on race and ethnicity published.

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.

Tricia Rose (Professor of Africana Studies, Director of CSREA) on how to think about and prepare for comprehensive exams.

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.

Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages decline. Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians’ racist accounts of reproduction—stories of Black “welfare queens” and Latina “breeding machines"—were the leading wedge in the government and business disinvestment in families.

Bonnie Honig (Professor of MCM and Political Science, Interim Director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women) on how to approach writing and how to keep writing through writing blocks.

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.

The election of Donald Trump incontrovertibly rested on his support among white voters, including white female voters. Many commentators have more specifically argued that the rightward motion of the "white working class" in and beyond the U.S. holds the key to pushing the far right to electoral majorities and to swagger in committing racist attacks. David Roediger's longstanding work on the critical study of whiteness in U.S. history positions him to address the extent to which Trump represents a new departure or a logical result of long processes.

Please join us for a HUGs + STEM Lunchtime Conversation with D. Fox Harrell, Ph.D., Professor of Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence, Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This informal discussion presents an opportunity to learn more about Dr. Harrell's research and experiences, and talk about challenges faced by historically underrepresented groups (HUGs) in STEM fields.

Jennifer Nash is an Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. Her research centers on black feminist theories; black sexual politics; race, gender, and law; race, gender, and visual culture; and women's/gender/sexuality studies' institutional histories and politics.

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.