ISGRJ Events by Location

Newark

The Sawyer Seminar Presents - Liberating Disability: Stories of Our Past, Present, and Future

The Sawyer Seminar Presents - Liberating Disability: Stories of Our Past, Present, and Future | Keynote by Dr. Linda Steele

A Conversation with James Jones & Jeffrey Robinson

Racial Equity in Technology Entrepreneurship (RETE) 2024 Workshop

Public Enemy: Exhibition and Reception featuring Newark Artist Bleriot Thompson

We Can't Go On Like This: Ruminations, Lessons, and Insights from the Seeing Wellness Project

Race and Religion Spring 2024 Lecture Series: From Newark to Cairo and Black Again: Black Muslims and the Afro-Arab Imaginary with Dr. Rasul Miller

Race and Religion Series: Global Circuits of Difference with Dr. Mbaye Lo

Conversation & Connections: “Revising the Language of #OwnVoices: Racial/Ethnic Authenticity, Controlling Images, and Gang Life in American Literature” with Frank Garcia

Hate - Undone: Conversations that Ignite Change with Dr. Daryl Davis

Black Women Leaders of Prominence Series: What Would Zora Do? Musings of Race in America by Lucy Anne Hurston

The Black Women Leaders of Prominence Series: An Evening of Music and Social Justice Honoring Ruby Sales

ISGRJ Race and Religion Lecture Series: Global Circuits of Difference with Dr. Madina Thiam

The 44th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series: La Fuerza de las Voces Negras: Afrolatinidades en las Americas The Power of Black Voices: Afro-Latin Identities in the Americas

Textures of Terror

Conversation & Connections with Amir Moosavi

Conversation & Connections with Professor Ezgi Cakmak

Teaching Against Erasure Convening

Humanities Action Lab Climates of Inequality Convening: Communities Joining Forces

Conversation & Connections with Wendell Marsh: Religious Readings of a West African Sufi

The Sawyer Seminar: Institutionalizing Change

On Covering Politics and Race

2023 Racial Justice Summit

The Racial Muslim with Sahar Aziz and Deborah Amos

We are all Carcamanos

The Sawyer Seminar at RU-N: Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City

Voicing Eco Distresses: A Conversation on Place-Based Approaches to Research and Partnership in New Jersey

Refugee Youth: Breaking the Cycle of Statelessness:

43rd Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series: Beans, Greens, Tomatoes: Food Accessibility and Justice in the Black Diaspora

Broken: the Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion with Professor Evelyn Alsultany

Breath Work: Schooling and the Politics of Black Aspiration

White Space, Black Hood: A Book Talk with Professor Sheryll Cashin

The Sawyer Seminar at RU-N: Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City

Conversation & Connections: Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education with Domingo Morel

Conversation & Connections with Frank Garcia

Black Portraiture[s]: Play and Performance

New Brunswick

Global 16 Days: Femi(ni)cide in Focus Panel Series: Femi(ni)cide and Reproductive Justice

Black Feminist Futures: Black Caribbean Transnational Feminisms Panel

Black Feminist Futures: A Signature On the Soundstage Event featuring Mayra Santos-Febres

The RAGE Lab Presents: Celebrating 25 Years of Hip Hop Feminism

The Rule of Dons: Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Urban Jamaica - A Book Talk by Dr. Rivke Jaffe

Where We Stand featuring Djamila Ribeiro in conversation with Kim Butler

Black Feminist Futures: A Signature on the Soundstage Event featuring Mayra Santos Febres

GirlTrek Walk hosted by Nyra Govan

Staying Resilient, Drawing a Larger Circle

Vulnerable Beauty: A Signature on the Soundstage Event featuring Ocean Vuong

Denice Frohman - "Poetry of Resistance"

Antiracism and Liberation in the Arts

The RAGE Lab presents: Protecting Black Women: The Problem of Online Violence

Trying to Hear Assotto Saint’s New Love Song, Thirty Years Later

Reclaiming Black Women's Lives: A Symposium Honoring the Intellectual Work of Deborah Gray White

Professor Don Wyatt presents "Slavery and its Medieval Abolitionisms"

Not Quite White in Fiction and Film: Laura Z. Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement and Nella Larsen's Passing

SYMPOSIUM: Black Americans, Jewish Americans: Historical Intersections, Collisions, and Passings

Bringing Dignity to Divided Times with Dr. Donna Hicks

Policing the Interior: Black Domestic Life and the Modern Carceral State

Afro Dominican Music: Racializing the Caribbean Panel/Concert

Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life Screening

What Does Community Mean in a Polarized Society? with Kazu Haga

Round Table Discussion: When will the Joy Come: Black Women in the Ivory Tower (2023)

Screening of Silver Dollar Road and Discussion with Academy Award-Nominated Filmmaker Hébert Peck

The Proud Valley Film Screening

Tales and African Mythology Psychotherapy: Rethinking Mental Health From a Decolonial Perspective

Gathering Ancestors: Spirit Possession, Theory, and Queer Feminist Futures

El Monte Conference

Conversation with Dr. Lorgia García-Peña, Moderated by Dr. Evie Shockley & Dr. Sylvia Chan-Malik

Antiracism and Liberation in the Academy

Race and Empire in the European Project

Elizabeth Detention Center: Past, Present, and Future

USF MaGrann Global Black Geographies Conference

Who's Passing for Whom? African Americans, Jews, and the Shifting Color Line

State of Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Forum

IRW 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series: Burial of this Order

GLAS Book Talk with Juliana Hu Pegues

Slavery, Tradition and Invisibility: An Unprecedented Virtual Archival Tour of Puerto Rican Culture's Collection

The Dispossessed Rethink Possession: Lesbian Communal Alternatives

Songs of Trevor Weston and Ignatius Sancho: A Premiere Performance and Discussion

Doing Black Feminism in Public - A conversation with Roxane Gay and Brittney Cooper

Arts in Health Research Lab Mission-Building Retreat

Walking in his Footsteps: A Tribute to Paul Robeson

Postdoc Pause: A Wellness Day

The New Brunswick/North Brunswick High Schools Public Memory Project

State of Hate in the US

Pathways to a Career on Capitol Hill

Karima 2G concert and conversation

Viral/Vital Conditions: The Viral Underclass with Steven W. Thrasher

Sandy Rodriguez: To Translate the Unfathomable | Exhibition & Artist's Lecture

Environmental Justice: Confronting Environmental Disparities through a National and Local Lens

The Politics of Care

Becoming Global Social Change Agents: Causes, Advocacy, and Impact Through Latinx Studies

“Queer Black Dance:" Thirty-Five Years of Choreography and Film with David Roussève

Screening of FREDA

Talk, Workshop and Lunch with Dr. Olivette Otele and Dr. Kennetta Hammond Perry

FACULTY APPRECIATION SERIES: Dr. Carlos U. Decena

Fly me to the Moon

Our Land, Our Stories - A Multimedia Experience

American Studies Brown Bag Lunch Workshop

Sandy Rodriguez: To Translate the Unfathomable | Exhibition & Artist's Lecture

Unearthing the Otherwise: Ethnographic Methods for the Caribbean Anthropocene A Talk by Dr. Saudi Garcia

Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo with Dr. Rachel Quinn

The AMESALL Distinguished Lecture Series presents “The Subject of Woman’s Rights is Before the World”

Faculty Writing Workshop

Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine Seminar Series

Work in Black and White: Imagining a Just Racial Future

Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez Book Talk and Holiday Reception

Igiaba Scego Italian Writer Journalist Activist

Viral/Vital Conditions: A World AIDS Day Celebration in Times of COVID

Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum

Tanya Katerí Hernández Presents "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality"

AFRICAN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP): Looking Back to the Future

Debating What's Debatable: Understanding the CRT/I Argument

BlackLab I: Experiments in Theoretical Black Studies

Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Patient Engagement and Healthcare Communication

The memory of mestizaje. Questioning official narratives of "our" histories /La memoria del mestizaje. Interrogar las narrativas oficiales de "nuestras" historias

United Nations International Translation Day

Paul Robeson: Hero of Cultural Appropriation

Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum

New Jersey Film Festival

Black Bodies, Black Health | Disrupting Health Disparities: Imagining a Just Racial Future External Expert Conference

CASE and SAS-DEI Juneteenth Screening & Discussion event

Hip Hop Youth Research & Activism Conference

Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in The Caribbean | A conversation with Andil Gosine

"To Turn the Light of Truth Upon Them" | Black Women, Justice, and the Power of the Pen An Evening on the Soundstage with Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean

CCA Presents Commoning the Future: World-Making through New Enclosures and New Commons

Book Reception: Freedom's Captives by Yesenia Barragan

Language and Social Justice talk: Linguistic Inequality in Higher Education, Dr. Walt Wolfram

Rutgers Premodern Antiracist Pedagogy Workshop

Angela Davis — Seize the Time

66th Annual Conference: International Linguistic Association

Redefining Justice and Freedom For Everyone: A Talk by Dr. Angela Davis

Her Portmanteau

The Music of Ignatius Sancho: The Arts as Black Resistance in 18th-Century London

Krista Franklin Visual Poetry

Sarah Cervenak’s Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life

The March2RUGardens

Camden

The 2024 Racial Justice Summit - Fighting for the Now, Hopeful for the Future: Living and Breathing Camden

In Conversation Series: Malik Abduh

In Conversation Series: Dilruba Ahmed

Fighting for the Now, Hopeful for the Future: Living and Breathing Camden

Dangerous Speech and What We Can Do About It by Susan Benesch

In Conversation Series: Susan Muaddi Darraj

A Screening of "Money, Freedom, a Story of the CFA Franc" with Katy Ndiaye

Writers in Camden: Lauren Grodstein & Gregory Pardlo

Black Liberation Philosophy: Shaykh Musa Kamara and the Fate of the Humanities

The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance

Quilting Water: Voicing Our Stories

2023 Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat

Power and Protest in New Jersey—50 Years After Rebellion in Camden: Recovering Histories, Exploring Memory

So We Can Know: A Generative Writing Workshop with Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde

So We Can Know: A Generative Writing Workshop with Vanessa Mártir

So We Can Know: A Generative Writing Workshop with Seema Reza

So We Can Know: A Generative Writing Workshop with Mahogany Browne

2022 Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat

Writers in Camden: Patrick Rosal and Tracy K. Smith

Writing Our Communities: Amplifying Community Voices

Writing Our Communities: Writers Centering Community

Centering Black Childhoods

Writing Our Communities: Writers Belonging to Communities, Communities Belonging to Writers

2021 Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat

University-Wide

The Sawyer Seminar Presents - Liberating Disability: Stories of Our Past, Present, and Future | Keynote by Dr. Linda Steele

Global 16 Days: Femi(ni)cide in Focus Panel Series: Femi(ni)cide and Reproductive Justice

Staying Resilient, Drawing a Larger Circle

Black Poetic Freedom Dreams: A Poetry Reading & Conversation with Alan Pelaez Lopez and Desiree C. Bailey

Genocide, Resistance, and Rescue during the 1994 Genocide of Tutsi in Rwanda

Colonial Sources, Children’s Voices, and Writing a History of Reformatories in the Post-slavery Caribbean by Dr. Juanita De Barros

Poetry's Essential Place in Anti-Colonial Philosophy

RAGE Lab Presents: Protecting Black Women: The Problem of Online Violence

Joy and Pain: BGHRA in Africana Studies Annual Conference

Striking Features: Psychoanalysis and Racial Passing Narratives: A Book Launch and Talk with Donavan L. Ramon

Spectral Evidence: A Special Book Launch and Talk with Gregory Pardlo

Hate in the U.S. Today Webinar – Part of the Reject Hate Documentary Series

Revisiting Corpus: A World Aids Day Celebration

Filming Black Southern Places

Literature, Critical Theory, and Black Ecologies Oct 2023

SPIA in NJ Workshop Series: The New Jersey Reparations Council and the Future Promise of a New New Jersey

Viral/Vital Series: The Virus Touch w/Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh

Teaching Against Erasure: Carceral Practice in the Classroom

Keywords in Catastrophe

Just Harvest, Food Justice Through Community Empowerment

Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat

In-Person: On the Legacies of Black Creative Arts / Spirit of the Ancestors

Literature, Critical Theory, and Black Ecologies April 2023

Liminal Spaces: Between No Longer And Not Yet

The Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium

Fanon Unbound: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Frantz Fanon

Confronting Racism, Discrimination and Othering: Perspectives from Around the World

Linked Data, Omeka S, and New Jersey Slavery Records

Art as Resistance: Transcultural Expressions: BGHRA 6th International Conference

Archive as Memorial Exhibition

Book Launch and Discussion of Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place with Author J.T. Roane

Book Launch Party with Leslie M. Alexander and J.T. Roane

The 2022 Italian Election Results: Past, Present and Futures

Intro to Intersectional Environmentalism

Knowledge and Thought Leadership from the Creatives: The Revolutionary Insights from Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur

More Than Segregation: The Mechanisms of Global Anti-Blackness Today

Placing African American and Latinx Histories at the Center of the New Freedom School Curriculum

Craig Owens Memorial Lecture | A New Hypothetical: Serializing and Sexualizing the Black FE/Male-Other

Diversity in Data: Concerning Black Lives Matter, Social Media, and Racial Bias in Data Series

Diversity in Data: Algorithmic Bias Series

Master Class: Sylvia Mendez

Ethical Imaginaries Future Paths in Italian Studies

Building Political Power of the Most Impacted

Carter G. Woodson, African American Teachers, and Pedagogies of Liberation: A Conversation with James Anderson and Jarvis Givens

Ensuring Health for All

Faculty Writing Bootcamp

Imagine More: Reaching Equity in Education

Mapping Value: Structural Racism and Health Consequences

Writing Our Communities: Amplifying Community Voices

BEYOND LINGUISTIC SYMPATHY: Access to Justice for Minoritized Language speakers in Mainstream Court Settings - Dr. Jessica López-Espino

The Roots of Global Anti-Blackness: Creating Knowledge at the Intersections of Art, Activism, and Scholarship

The Power of Your Voice: Student Advocacy Panel

Resisting Boundedness As A Way To Push Against Essentialism In Linguistics

Circuits of the Sacred: Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean, a visionary study of transnational Black Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit, which thinks of Blackness through the metaphor of the “circuit.”

Re-Envisioning the Future of Educational Equity in New Jersey: A Virtual Statewide Conference

In Conversation with Moisés Lino e Silva, Author of Minoritarian Liberalism

Achieving Safe and Healthy Homes for All

"The Afterlives of Mestizaje: Hemispheric Anti-Blackness and Black Indigenous Life" Presented by Dr. Pablo José López Oro

Language and Social Justice Talk: Linguistics For Legal Purposes

Conversation and Connections: "Worth of a Nation: Shifting From the Loathed to the Loved" with Melissa Valle

Disrupting the Criminal Justice System

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series - "The Future of Race" with Michelle Stephens

Education as Disruption Intensive

Writing Our Communities Part 3: Amplifying Community Voices

Writing Our Communities Part 2: Writers Centering Community

Writing Our Communities Part 1: Writers Belonging to Communities, Communities Belonging to Writers

Eliminating the Racial Wealth Gap and Ending Poverty

TFAP@CAA 2022 Day(s) of Panels | Feminist Solidarities and Kinships

How Victorianists (Might) Talk About Race: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Gender, Violence, and Politics in Haiti

THE IMPLICATIONS OF SOUNDING LIKE A STEREOTYPE: Cognition and African American English

Livingston: A Governor, a College, and the Long Echoes of Slavery at Rutgers

The Launch of ISGRJ-Newark

Will Alexander: Refractive Africa

Advancing Racial Justice and Health Equity through Housing and Homeless Services

Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World

Race B4 Race: Region and Enmity Interdisciplinary Symposium

The Writing Laboratory

Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness

Occasions for Gathering Presents: Generative Writing Workshop with Randall Horton

Scarlet Scholars: Race, Climate, and the Communal Imagination

Global

The Dakar Translation Symposium: Africa and Her Diasporas