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Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
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Global Initiatives

Announcing our Global Affiliate Centers!

Affiliate Centers are community stakeholders who share the institute’s mission and partner with the institute on initiatives, reflecting the diversity of approaches to research on global racial justice at Rutgers.

Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR) at Rutgers Global

CGHR's mission is to understand and prevent genocide and mass atrocity crimes.

In doing so, CGHR takes a critical prevention approach. On the one hand, we grapple with critical human rights issues, including the most pressing twenty-first century challenges that may give rise to genocide, atrocity crimes, and related interventions. On the other hand, we use a critical lens to rethink assumptions and offer alternative ideas and solutions.

Led by Alexander Hinton, CGHR Director, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention and Nela Navarro, CGHR Associate Director and Director of Education, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of English-Writing Program, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences-Newark.

Learn more about CGHR
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Center for Migration and the Global City (CMGC) at Rutgers Newark (School of Arts and Sciences)

The Center for Migration and the Global City (CMGC) is an incubator for multidisciplinary scholarship, innovative pedagogy and civic engagement that addresses both the local and global dimensions of migration. CMGC fosters migration research across academic disciplines and the development of educational resources, media curriculum, and public programming that contribute to a better understanding of the impact of contemporary migration and its historical roots.

Learn more about CMGC
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Signature Global Initiatives at the ISGRJ

The 2024 Dakar Translation Symposium: Africa and Her Globalization — Accra Edition

The second edition of the Dakar Translation Symposium: Africa and Her Globalization (DTS) - Accra Edition will be held from June 3-6, 2024 at the University of Ghana, Accra. The symposium will bring together people invested in Africa and her Diasporas to engage questions of language, history, archive, translation, culture, and diaspora that shape the discourses surrounding Africa and Her Globalization across intellectual fields and disciplines. While exploring new possibilities for our communities and connected worlds, DTS fosters a global dialogue that is theoretical, cultural, and imaginative, bringing together speakers and participants of national and international research capacities from various disciplines who are invested in Africa and the Black diasporas. 

This second edition will explore some of the most urgent issues in the fields of social sciences and humanities including literature, history, sociology, gender, anthropology, economy, and law, among others. The working languages for the 2024 DTS are, alphabetically: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Twi, and Wolof.

Partner institutions co-sponsoring the symposium include the Office of Inclusion and Equity at NYU Abu Dhabi, the Arts and Humanities Division at NYU Abu Dhabi, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University, Rutgers Global, the Department of French Rutgers New Brunswick, the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora, NYU Washington Square, the Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation at NYU, Assane Seck University in Ziguinchor, Senegal, the J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives of the Institute of African Studies, and the University of Ghana.

Access the 2024 DTS: Africa and Her Globalization — Accra Edition Page Here
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Abu Dhabi DTS Planning Summit

The Dakar Translation Symposium (DTS) Planning Summit was held in Abu Dhabi, UAE from January 16-18, 2023. Supported by funding from the Office of Inclusion and Equity, and the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi, and led by the organizers of the DTS at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, the summit brought together leadership from three universities in Senegal and one in Mali. 

Convened to bring into focus a coherent mission, and brainstorm a long-term vision for both the Symposium and the proposed Center for the Study of Translation to be located in Ziguinchor, Senegal, the summit also provided a platform for discussion about the future of DEI in a global context.

ISGRJ Directors engaged in rigorous discussions with faculty and administrators from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Assane Seck University in Ziguinchor, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis of Senegal, and NYUAD including Dr. Lisa Coleman, Senior Vice President of Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation and Fatiah Touray, Executive Director of Inclusion and Equity. Special thanks to NYUAD Vice Chancellor Marïet Westermann for sharing her time and insights with the Summit assembly.

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EthicsLab-CPLB Seminar Series | Sub-Saharan Africa, population health, and ethics 

The Center for Population-Level Bioethics (CPLB) at Rutgers and EthicsLab at the Catholic University of Central Africa have started a year-long seminar series focused on the intersections of population ethics and health in African spaces. Led by Nir Eyal (Professor of Bioethics, Rutgers Global Health Institute and Director, Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research) and Thierry Ngosso (Political Philosopher, Center for Population-Level Bioethics)

Social Justice

Escuela de Formación Política “Sonia Pierre”: Pensamiento Caribeño, Lucha antirracista y Decolonialidad: a Program of Exchanges between Rutgers/LCS and the GLEFAS

The Sonia Pierre Political School is a summer educational project training young leaders in racial and social justice in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, as part of a broader set of exchanges between the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the GLEFAS (Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudio, Formación, y Acción Feminista) in the 22-23 school year. Led by Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Associate Professor, Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Sociology.

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Disrupting the Status Quo: Reimagining Global Health Systems Through A Decolonizing Lens

This qualitative research study is a joint project between the Rutgers Global Health Institute and the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice which explores whether current decolonization efforts fall short of addressing the harm that colonization has caused and how we stop institutions from around the globe from perpetuating these inequities. Led by Arpita Jindani and Richard Marlink (Rutgers Global Health Institute).

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Quilombo is Now: Piauí Brazil's Afro-Pindoramic Contributions to the Study of Global Racial Justice 

Throughout the 17th century and up the present, quilombos in Brazil have contributed to the struggle for and study of global racial justice by resisting slavery and its afterlives. Quilombo communities in Piauí demand the right to their territory and affirm African, indigenous and rural religiosities, values and forms. By Laura Lomas, Professor of American Studies, English, Women's and Gender Studies, Center for Migration and the Global City at Rutgers-Newark, June-August 2023