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CSSJ Weekly Newsletter
February 19, 2015

 
 
 

Coming events

 
 
 

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Freedom Summer screening

6:00 PM
Building for Environmental Research and Teaching (BERT) 130
85 Waterman Street 
Moderated by Prof. Geri Augusto, Visiting Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Board Member, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Legacy Project 

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This screening is part of the Black History Month Film Series in collaboration with the Providence Public Library.

 

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Slavery by Another Name screening

7:00 PM
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Studio One
154 Angell Street
Moderated by Professor Mekala Audain

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Presented in collaboration with the American Dance Legacy Initiative Winter Mini Fest 2015. (See full event at  http://brown.edu/academics/public-humanities/american-dance-legacy-initiative/winter-mini-fest-2015)

 

Race Today:
A Symposium on Race in America

Friday, February 27, 2015 
Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting St.
**CSREA's 2/17 newsletter incorrectly listed the location as Smith-Buonnano 106

This day-long symposium brings a group of the nation’s most respected intellectuals on race, racial theory and racial inequality together to consider the troubling state of black life in America today:

  • David Roediger, Foundation Professor of American Studies, University of Kansas
  • Tom Shapiro, Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy and Director, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University
  • Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Department Chair, Associate Professor, African American Studies; Chair in Educational Disparities in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology at Duke University
  • Kimberlé Crenshaw, Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
  • Michael Omi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies; Associate Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, University of California, Berkeley
  • Howard Winant, Professor of Sociology
 at University of California
, Santa Barbara

Presented in partnership with the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, with generous support from the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, and the Office of the President.

View full symposium schedule. 

 
 
 
 

Save the Date!

 

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 Lectures serve as a key component of the University’s response to the Report of the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice and invites the most distinguished scholars to Brown to discuss historic and contemporary issues related to the legacy of slavery in the Americas and the world. 

 
 
 

News from Brown

The Book of Negroes
An American story: History still matters!

Commentary: Françoise N. Hamlin

 
 
 
 
 

"We know black lives matter, but do black stories and black histories, told by black people themselves, also matter?"

 
 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 

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