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Migration, Displacement, and the Arts

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

Co-organizers: Kim DaCosta Holton, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, Newark Tim Raphael, Professor, Arts, Culture, and Media, Rutgers University, Newark Mayte Green-Mercado, Associate Professor, History, Rutgers University, Newark Co-sponsored by Mediterranean Displacements Project, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and Center for Migration and the Global City Scholarship on migration and displacement … Read More

Migration, Displacement, and the Arts: Performances and Party

ODR Studios 89 Madison Street, Newark, NJ, United States

Co-organizers: Kim DaCosta Holton, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, Newark Tim Raphael, Professor, Arts, Culture, and Media, Rutgers University, Newark Mayte Green-Mercado, Associate Professor, History, Rutgers University, Newark Co-sponsored by Mediterranean Displacements Project, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and Center for Migration and the Global City 6:00-11:00 pm Performances and party … Read More

Screening of “Wakanda Forever” and Discussion

Engelhard 202 190 University Avenue, Newark

Screening of Wakanda Forever and Discussion (4:00-6:45 pm) Screening (6:45-8:00 pm) Discussion/panel facilitated by Eun Jin (Keish) Kim, ISGRJ Postdoctoral Associate in American Studies, Rutgers University, Newark, and Honors College students Aisha Siddiqui, Atiyah Hack-Russell, and Shalom Jimoh

Black Citizenship

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

This seminar explores the relationship between Black communities, both native-born and immigrant, and the question of American citizenship. It explores this relationship in various contexts: through political ideologies, religious communities, and shared cultural heritage. Wednesday, March 8, 2023 (10:00-10:15 am) Welcome Address by Dean Jacqueline Mattis (10:15-11:45 am) A Conversation between Salamishah Tillet and Claudia Rankine … Read More

Welcome Address by Dean Jacqueline Mattis

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

Jacqueline Mattis, Dean, School of Arts & Sciences-Newark, Rutgers University, Newark

A Conversation between Salamishah Tillet and Claudia Rankine

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

A Conversation between Salamishah Tillet and Claudia Rankine Salamishah Tillet, Henry Rutgers Professor, Africana Studies and Creative Writing, Rutgers University, Newark Claudia Rankine, Professor, Creative Writing Program, New York University

Panel: Black Citizenship

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

Black Citizenship Kimberley Johnson, Professor, Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University Niambi Carter, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park Yarimar Bonilla, Professor, Anthropology, Graduate Center City University of New York Reuel Rogers, Associate Professor, Political Science, Northwestern University Moderator: Hyacinth Miller, Assistant Teaching Professor, Africana Studies and Political Science, … Read More

Black Citizenship and Religion

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

Black Citizenship and Religion John Jackson, Professor and Dean, University of Pennsylvania Zain Abdullah, Associate Professor, Religion, Temple University Todne Thomas, Associate Professor, African American Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School Carlos Decena, Profesor, Latino and Caribbean Studies and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Moderator: Wendell Marsh, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies, … Read More

Institutionalizing Change

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

Institutionalizing Change is both the capstone and the conclusion of the yearlong discussion of race, immigration, and inequality that has been the focus of the Sawyer seminar series, Natives and Nativists, Immigrants and Migrants in an American City. The goal of this final seminar is to have a frank conversation on how to turn scholarly … Read More