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October 2022
Roundtable: Transnational Solidarity Politics: Reflections by Organizers
Roundtable: Transnational Solidarity Politics: Reflections by Organizers Eduardo Vianna, City University of New York and organizer, formerly with Defend Democracy in Brazil and BRADO Natalia de Campos, Performance artist and activist, Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee, NY In conversation with the panelists Moderator: Sean T. Mitchell, Rutgers University, Newark
Find out more »November 2022
Migration, Displacement, and the Arts
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 focuses mostly on the conditions that force people to leave their places of origin or the challenges that people face during their departure or arrival.…
Find out more »Migration, Displacement, and the Arts: Performances and Party
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 after the seminar at ODR Studios Marcy DePina, DJ and MC Performances by Amir ElSaffar and Two Rivers ensemble Janétza Miranda, singer-songwriter and classical Spanish…
Find out more »March 2023
Screening of “Wakanda Forever” and Discussion
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
Find out more »Black Citizenship
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 Salamishah Tillet, Henry Rutgers Professor, Africana Studies and Creative Writing, Rutgers University, Newark Claudia Rankine, Professor, Creative Writing Program, New York University (12:00-1:00 pm) Things…
Find out more »Welcome Address by Dean Jacqueline Mattis
Jacqueline Mattis, Dean, School of Arts & Sciences-Newark, Rutgers University, Newark
Find out more »A Conversation between Salamishah Tillet and Claudia Rankine
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
Find out more »“Things We Do in the Dark: Cinematic Experiments in Kinship” Tour
Led by Yvonne Shirley, Express Newark Community Media Center Director, and Farrah Rahaman, exhibit curator
Find out more »Panel: Black Citizenship
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, Rutgers University, Newark
Find out more »Black Citizenship and Religion
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, Rutgers University, Newark
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