CSSJ Weekly Newsletter
March 2, 2015

Coming events

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Calvin Warren

12:00 PM
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Seminar Room
94 Waterman Street

"Black Anxiety: Briefings on Heideggerian Death, Ferguson, and Antiblackness"

Lunch will be provided. Kindly RSVP here: http://goo.gl/forms/svr2W6Bwbu

Friday, March 6, 2015

Seminar with Prof. Justene G. Hill

3:00 - 5:00 PM
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
Seminar Room
94 Waterman Street

"Crimes of Economy: Slave Economies and the Legal Culture of Early Nineteenth-Century South Carolina, 1800-1830"
Jointly Hosted by CSSJ and the History Department’s 19th Century US History Workshop

RSVPs are required for this event: http://goo.gl/forms/jFkRjkBBGK

A paper will be circulated before this event. Please plan to familiarize yourself with the work before attending.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

2015 Annual Debra L. Lee Lecture

6:00 PM
List 120
64 College Street

Confronting the Cycles of Slavery:  Why the Arc of Abolition Must Span Generations

Katherine Chon, `02
Co-founder and President Emerita, Polaris Project

Katherine Chon, '02, has spent the last fourteen years identifying and implementing community-driven solutions to combat modern forms of slavery, sparked by a local human trafficking case in Providence, Rhode Island.  Katherine partnered with Derek Ellerman, '02,  during their senior year at Brown University to co-found Polaris, a leading non-profit organization in the global fight to eradicate modern slavery and restore freedom to survivors.  She currently serves as the Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Katherine received her Sc.B. in Psychology from Brown University, M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School, and completed the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  

The Debra L. Lee Lecture Series is an annual event of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice which invites the most distinguished scholars and activists to Brown to discuss historic and contemporary issues related to the legacy of slavery in the Americas and the world. 

March 13, 2015

Seminar with Prof. Mekala Audain

3:00-5:00 PM
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
Seminar Room
94 Waterman Street

"Mexican Canaan: The Southern Underground Railroad and Free Black Immigration to Mexico, 1804-1867"
Jointly organized by CSSJ and 19th Century US History Workshop

RSVPs are required for this event: http://goo.gl/forms/YwiXZka0S1

A paper will be circulated before this event. Please plan to familiarize yourself with the work before attending.

In the News

From the Brown Daily Herald: Symposium examines race, educational inequality

Speakers present on colorblindness, schools as common settings for racial struggles

Opportunities

International Education Intern with Choices Program

The Choices Program's International Education Intern participates as a member of Choices' curriculum development team researching and writing curriculum resources for the secondary level. Choices develops teaching resources on historical and current international issues and offers professional development for classroom teachers at the secondary level. Through this work, Choices seeks to empower young people with the skills, knowledge, and participatory habits to be engaged citizens who are capable of addressing international issues through thoughtful public discourse and informed decision making. This is an entry-level position for a recent college graduate.

Read more about the International Education Intern.

Application Deadline: March 16, 2015

Beyond the Center

Check out the Freedom Project's feature in Rhode Island Monthly.

​Combating Injustice: A Public Dialogue

​Thursday, 3/19, 6:30 p.m & ​Thursday, 4/16, 6:30 p.m.

​Aldrich House, 110 Benevolent Street, Providence, RI 02906
Contact: ​programs@rihs.org or (401) 331-8575 x136.\

This March and April, the Rhode Island Historical Society, in collaboration with the Roots Cultural Center, the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, the Newport Historical Society, the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, and the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University, will continue a series of talks that mark the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the the beginning of WWI, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the 50 Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The second talk of the series, “She was Fighting for her Father’s Rights: The Role of Children in African American Freedom Struggles” ​will be given by Prof. Marcia Chatelain on Thursday, 3/19, 6:30 p.m. at the Aldrich House, 110 Benevolent Street, Providence.

The third talk of the series, “Rethinking the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement” ​​will be given by Prof. Yohuru Williams on Thursday, 4/16, 6:30 p.m. at the Aldrich House, 110 Benevolent Street, Providence.