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Dear Friends and Supporters of the CSSJ,

Join us in celebrating the start of a new academic year!

With a plethora of new programs and exciting speakers, we're looking forward to beginning the 2014-2015 year. We hope you'll join us this fall at our many events. As always, thank you for your continued support of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.

All our thanks,
Tony Bogues, Shana Weinberg and Ruth Clark
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

    We've moved!

 

We're getting settled into our new home at 94 Waterman Street. Featuring a gallery space, slave gardens, and a stunning glass wall, this space will be a welcoming spot on campus.

 
 
 

Visit the new building at these two exciting events:

Saturday, September 27, 2014
Dedication of a Slavery Memorial

Front Green North
3:00-5:00 PM

President Christina H. Paxson, the Public Art Committee, and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice invite you to the dedication of a Slavery Memorial. The program will include remarks by sculptor and National Medal of Arts recipient Martin Puryear, and author Edwidge Danticat MFA '93, LITD '08, hon. A reception will immediately follow the dedication and program.


 

 

Friday, October 24, 2014
Lecture by Dr. Ruth J. Simmons

Salomon 101
4:00 PM

New building opening & reception
94 Waterman Street
Following talk

 

 
 
 
 

                  A look at what's coming up:

 
 
 
 

Fall 2014

September 2014
September 9, 2014
Ferguson Teach-In

September 11, 2014
1764: Brown's Founding in a Global Context: Prof. Craig Wilder

September 12, 2014
Conference: New Perspectives on Guantánamo: Art, Activism and Advocacy 

September 15, 2014
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Dienke Hondius

September 16, 2014
Wole Soyinka lecture

September 16, 2014
Restore the Pell Grant Symposium

September 24, 2014
Professor Joao Reis: Slaves Who Owned Slaves in 19th Century Brazil

September 25, 2014
Panels on Curating Slavery Exhibits

September 27, 2014
Panel: Enduring Legacies of Slavery: Human Trafficking In the 21st Century

Unveiling of Slavery Memorial designed by Martin Puryear

October 2014
October 2, 2014
Property Tax as a Legacy of Cotton, Slavery, and Segregation: Larry Menefee and Prof. Mills Thornton

October 24, 2014
Dr. Ruth Simmons Keynote Lecture New building opening & reception at 94 Waterman Street

October 2014
Book Talk: From the Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscapes: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié

November 2014
November 7, 2014
50th Anniversary of Brown-Tougaloo College Partnership
Civil Rights Panel Discussions featuring veterans of the movement
Marian Anderson String Quartet Concert

November 12, 2014
Poetry reading by Prof. Brenda Marie Osbey

November 18, 2014
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Patrick Sylvain

December 2014
December 2, 2014
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Christine Walker

 
 

Spring 2015

February 2015
February 26-27, 2014
Conference on Race in America Today

February 2015
Black History Month Film Series

March 2015
March 3, 2015
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Calvin Warren

March 12, 2015
2015 Annual Debra L. Lee Lecture
Katherine Chon '02, Co-Founder & President Emerita, Polaris Project

April 2015
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Sean Moore
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Betsy Cazden

May 2015
NEH Changing America Exhibition comes to Brown

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Happenings around campus:

CSREA Fall Art Exhibit

Participate in the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America's Fall Art Exhibit which makes visible the reality and negative impact of racial microaggressions on building a just community.

They are inviting students, faculty, staff, and other members of the Brown community to share their life experiences with racial/ethnic micro aggressions.

Please RSVP to csrea@brown.edu to reserve a 15-minute photo session spot.
- Friday, September 5, 12 - 3 pm

New Perspectives on Guantánamo: Art, Activism and Advocacy
September 12, 2014
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Watson Institute

New Perspectives on Guantánamo: Art, Activism and Advocacy, will explore the history of the United States’ use of GTMO in the 1990s to house individuals from Haiti and Cuba who fled political persecution or sought asylum within the U.S, and its post-9/11 use as a prison for suspected terrorists.  This Conference is Free and Open to the Public but Registration is Required.