Event Archive
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Other events in 2024
November 2024
Global 16 Days: Femi(ni)cide in Focus Panel Series: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
November 12, 2024
These panels explore the intersecting phenomena of femicide, the deliberate killing of women and girls due to social perceptions of their gender, and feminicide, how the actions and inactions of nation-states facilitate that violence. Femi(ni)cide is driven by the devaluation of women and girls in societies globally that subjects them to a wide range of gender-based violence (GBV).
The Sawyer Seminar presents Aftermaths of War: Memory and Histories for the Future (Day 1)
November 12, 2024
From examining the role of historical thinking and writing in wartime and postwar contexts, and examining the place of literature and art in commemorations of war and conflict, to grappling with the ethical implications of the stewardship of objects that bear witness to histories of extraction and exploitation, this seminar will explore the ways that narrative and storytelling practices have the potential to mediate both violent pasts and the present in ways that may offer reparative tools for the future.
The Sawyer Seminar presents Aftermaths of War: Memory and Histories for the Future (Day 2)
November 13, 2024
From examining the role of historical thinking and writing in wartime and postwar contexts, and examining the place of literature and art in commemorations of war and conflict, to grappling with the ethical implications of the stewardship of objects that bear witness to histories of extraction and exploitation, this seminar will explore the ways that narrative and storytelling practices have the potential to mediate both violent pasts and the present in ways that may offer reparative tools for the future.
An Evening with Tennessee Representative Justin J. Pearson
November 14, 2024
Join us on Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 6:00 PM for an engaging discussion with Rep. Justin J. Pearson about politics, racism, and Gen Z activism. Dr. James R. Jones, the Inaugural Director of the Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America will moderate the conversation.
October 2024
GirlTrek Walk hosted by Nyra Govan
October 4, 2024
On October 3, Nyra Govan, the National College Rep of GirlTrek is hosting a Campus walk for black women of Rutgers, allies are welcome. GirlTREK’s collaboration with Rutgers University is expected to get young women walking to better health across your college campus.
Staying Resilient, Drawing a Larger Circle
October 9, 2024
Kazu Haga, a leading Kingian Nonviolence trainer and the author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm, will help us to grapple with why the choice to draw a larger circle is important and share practical strategies to enable us to do so.
The RAGE Lab Presents: Celebrating 25 Years of Hip Hop Feminism
October 11, 2024
The Race and Gender Equity (RAGE) Lab is delighted to invite you to its signature fall event: “CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF HIP HOP FEMINISM" Featuring Joan Morgan, Sesali Bowen, Omaris Zamora, and other special guests! This event will take place on October 11, 2024, from 10am to 3pm ET, at Rutgers University: The Ruth Dill Crocket Johnson Building, 162 Ryders Lane, New Jersey, 08901. Please note that registration is required as space is limited.
Where We Stand featuring Djamila Ribeiro in conversation with Kim Butler
October 11, 2024
We welcome Black Brazilian philosopher and activist Djamila Ribeiro in conversation with Kim Butler to discuss the insurgent intersections of Global Black Feminisms in Djamila Ribeiro’s work now in English translation, Where We Stand.
Global 16 Days: Femi(ni)cide in Focus Panel Series: Femi(ni)cide and Femicide Watch
October 15, 2024
These panels explore the intersecting phenomena of femicide, the deliberate killing of women and girls due to social perceptions of their gender, and feminicide, how the actions and inactions of nation-states facilitate that violence. Femi(ni)cide is driven by the devaluation of women and girls in societies globally that subjects them to a wide range of gender-based violence (GBV).
Black Feminist Futures: A Signature on the Soundstage Event featuring Mayra Santos Febres
October 17, 2024
Please join us for a special event with Puerto Rican writer Mayra Santos-Febres as part of the “On the Sound Stage” signature series on our New Brunswick campus. She will be joined in conversation by two exciting interlocutors--Professor Omaris Zamora (LCS/Africana Studies) and Professor Carlos Vazquez-Cruz (Kalamazoo College)—in a dialogue about her trajectory as a novelist, essayist, and activist.
October 18, 2024
Dr. Rivke Jaffe (University of Amsterdam) will be discussing her new book, The Rule of Dons: Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Urban Jamaica.
Black Feminist Futures: Black Caribbean Transnational Feminisms Panel
October 18, 2024
Please join us for a special panel on Black Caribbean Transnational Feminisms in which Puerto Rican writer and Professor Mayra Santos-Febres will be in dialogue with Professor Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso (Dominican Republic) and Professor Ochy Curiel (Dominican Republic) and with the audience.
The Sawyer Seminar Presents - Liberating Disability: Stories of Our Past, Present, and Future
October 24, 2024
How do we reckon with and repair the injustices of institutionalizing disabled people? Haunted house attractions, exclusive housing estates, and abandoned buildings are some of the common afterlives of disability institutions … justice and reparations are not. However, there is increasing momentum at the international human rights and local community levels for truth-telling and reparations towards disabled people who have experienced institutionalization. In her keynote, Associate Professor Steele introduces human rights and philosophical reasons why reparation is necessary and discusses some ways in which governments and communities are already engaged in these practices.
October 24, 2024
How do we reckon with and repair the injustices of institutionalizing disabled people? Haunted house attractions, exclusive housing estates, and abandoned buildings are some of the common afterlives of disability institutions … justice and reparations are not. However, there is increasing momentum at the international human rights and local community levels for truth-telling and reparations towards disabled people who have experienced institutionalization. In her keynote, Associate Professor Steele introduces human rights and philosophical reasons why reparation is necessary and discusses some ways in which governments and communities are already engaged in these practices.
In Conversation Series: Malik Abduh
October 28, 2024
Malik Abduh is a poet, essayist, & short story writer with an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Camden. His work has been featured in various journals & publications, including Southern Indiana Review, Four Way Review, Exit 7, Platform Review, Some Call it Ballin’ Magazine, & Aquarius Press. His debut collection, All the Stars Aflame, was published by Get Fresh Books (2022). He is an assistant professor of English at Rowan College at Burlington County.
Global 16 Days: Femi(ni)cide in Focus Panel Series: Femi(ni)cide and Reproductive Justice
October 29, 2024
These panels explore the intersecting phenomena of femicide, the deliberate killing of women and girls due to social perceptions of their gender, and feminicide, how the actions and inactions of nation-states facilitate that violence. Femi(ni)cide is driven by the devaluation of women and girls in societies globally that subjects them to a wide range of gender-based violence (GBV).
September 2024
A Conversation with James Jones & Jeffrey Robinson
September 9, 2024
The Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America with the Department of Africana Studies invites you to a discussion and reception with Dr. James R. Jones in celebration of his book The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress.
In Conversation Series: Dilruba Ahmed
September 23, 2024
With support from an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy (IDEA) Innovation Grant, and in conversation with the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, the Writers House welcomes writer Dilruba Ahmed for a reading and Q&A.
June 2024
The 2024 Dakar Translation Symposium: Africa and Her Globalization Accra Edition
June 3, 2024 - June 6, 2024
The Dakar Translation Symposium: Africa and Her Globalization (DTS) brings 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.
Racial Equity in Technology Entrepreneurship (RETE) 2024 Workshop
June 14, 2024
This workshop exists to expand the body of research across academic disciplines at the intersection of race, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. In just two short years our workshop has convened a racially and ethnically diverse group of approximately 143 scholars, practitioners, and leaders from 90 different organizations, including 70 different colleges and
May 2024
Public Enemy: Exhibition and Reception featuring Newark Artist Bleriot Thompson
May 4, 2024
We were proud to host the opening reception for our inaugural signature exhibition celebrating the work of Newark-based artist Bleriot Thompson and his series “Public Enemy,” on March 19 at Rutgers-Newark in collaboration with Paul Robeson Galleries.
April 2024
We Can't Go On Like This: Ruminations, Lessons, and Insights from the Seeing Wellness Project
April 9, 2024
In this talk, Dr. Laura Krystal Porterfield will present some of the initial findings from the Seeing Wellness Project. The Seeing Wellness research project is a participatory visual ethnography that explores the self-care, wellness, and healing practices of self-identified transgender, women, and gender non-conforming Black, Indigenous and other People of Color (BIPOC) who are diversity and justice leaders in the global north and south. The guiding research question of this study asks, “What does transformational self-care look like for transgender, women, and gender non-conforming BIPOC within the context of diversity and social justice leadership?” Dr. Porterfield hopes to engage attendees in conversation regarding their own care and wellness practices. In the spirit of Harambee and biomimicry, she hopes to foster an open dialogue where participants can connect, improvise, and riff off one another toward greater understanding and collaboration.
A Screening of "Money, Freedom, a Story of the CFA Franc" with Katy Ndiaye
April 9, 2024
This Tuesday, join us at Rutgers-Camden for the screening of the documentary "Money, Freedom, a Story of the CFA Franc" by filmmaker Katy Ndiaye. The movie explores the colonial legacy of French imperial economy in West Africa, focusing on the CFA currency, and delves into the question of economic sovereignty for African nations. A Q&A will follow the screening. Refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public.
Genocide, Resistance, and Rescue during the 1994 Genocide of Tutsi in Rwanda
April 9, 2024
The Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights presents a book talk commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, by Jennie E. Burnet, Director of the Institute for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Georgia State University and author of To Save Heaven and Earth and Genocide Lives in Us.
Hate - Undone: Conversations that Ignite Change with Dr. Daryl Davis
April 9, 2024
Join us on April 9, 2024, at 6 pm to hear from Dr. Daryl Davis as part of the "Navigating Tensions, Affirming Community" Speaker Series.
Trying to Hear Assotto Saint’s New Love Song, Thirty Years Later
April 10, 2024
New Love Song functioned for its audience and performers alike as a space for collective grieving and healing around the bodily threats of HIV/AIDS, racism, xenophobia, and homophobia. In this talk, I will describe my process of seeking out witnesses who could serve as bridges to the performances of New Love Song.
April 12, 2024
Please join us for a talk by Juanita De Barros, titled "Colonial Sources, Children’s Voices, and Writing a History of Reformatories in the Post-slavery." The talk will be followed by a Question and Answer session.
April 14, 2024
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Newark is inviting Rutgers Newark faculty to the second event in our Conversation & Connections lunch series: “Revising the Language of #OwnVoices: Racial/Ethnic Authenticity, Controlling Images, and Gang Life in American Literature”
Race and Religion Series: Global Circuits of Difference with Dr. Mbaye Lo
April 17, 2024
The Race and Religion series at ISGRJ-Newark seeks to center conversations about the intersections of race and religion, and the racialization of religion, from historical and contemporary perspectives, in the U.S. and globally. As categories of identity and identification, race and religion have historically overlapped and competed as primary forms of differentiation and markers of difference. This spring the series will focus on Islam in Africa.
April 17, 2024
Please join us for a reading and dialogue with poets Alan Pelaez Lopez and Desiree C. Bailey. This event marks the closing of Insurgent Intersections' third year of inquiry, focused on the theme "Global Lived Experiences of Anti-Blackness".
In Conversation Series: Susan Muaddi Darraj
April 18, 2024
With support from an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy (IDEA) Innovation Grant, and in conversation with the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, the Writers House welcomes writer and MFA alum Susan Muaddi Darraj for a reading and Q&A moderated by ISGRJ Postdoctoral Fellow andie millares.
April 22, 2024
The Race and Religion series at ISGRJ-Newark seeks to center conversations about the intersections of race and religion, and the racialization of religion, from historical and contemporary perspectives, in the U.S. and globally. As categories of identity and identification, race and religion have historically overlapped and competed as primary forms of differentiation and markers of difference. This spring the series will focus on Islam in Africa.
The Cybercene Lab - Multispecies Humanities Graduate Roundtable
April 24, 2024
Join us to celebrate the very first graduate course launched by The Cybercene Lab! The Multispecies Humanities Roundtable will showcase seven fascinating research projects by participating graduate students, followed by a conversation moderated by their Professor, Dr. Vetri Nathan, lab founder and Mellon Associate Professor in Global Racial Justice.
Dangerous Speech and What We Can Do About It by Susan Benesch
April 24, 2024
Join us on April 24, 2024, at 3 pm to hear from Susan Benesch as part of the "Navigating Tensions, Affirming Community" Speaker Series.
Antiracism and Liberation in the Arts
April 25, 2024
Our last Sawyer seminar of the year considers the post-1968 legacies of artistic expressions of the 1960s/70s political struggles and notions of liberation in music, literature, film, television, and other artistic forms that emerged during that time. Against the economic, political, and cultural shifts that have transformed how we engage with and consume art in the last fifty years, especially the emergence of digital media and the transnational networks of exchange through which it circulates, we explore how the arts—in sonic, literary, visual, and digital forms—have expressed evolving conceptions of racial liberation during this time period. Through performance and conversation, our panelists will consider how artistic expression speaks to the multiple forms of crisis confronting us today.
We Can't Go On Like This: Ruminations, Lessons, and Insights from the Seeing Wellness Project
April 26, 2024
In this talk, Dr. Laura Krystal Porterfield will present lessons and insights from her ongoing collaborative research project Seeing Wellness: Exploring the Transformative Self-Care and Wellness Practices of BIPOC Diversity and Justice Workers.
March 2024
March 4, 2024
This panel discussion will explore racial and ethnic "passing" in these critically-acclaimed novels as well as their adaptations for the screen. Excerpts from both films will be shown, as panelists examine the complex historical struggle of Black and Jewish Americans to feel that they belong in this country. Free and open to the public. Advance registration required.
SYMPOSIUM: Black Americans, Jewish Americans: Historical Intersections, Collisions, and Passings
March 5, 2024
A diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars will explore the complex historical relationship of Black and Jewish Americans as well as their struggles to negotiate a white Christian American society.
March 5, 2024
The Black Women Leaders of Prominence Series: An Evening of Music and Social Justice Honoring Legendary Civil Rights Activist and Freedom Fighter Ruby Sales was held at Rutgers University-Newark on March 5, 2024.
Professor Don Wyatt presents "Slavery and its Medieval Abolitionisms"
March 7, 2024
Dr. Wyatt is the John M. McCardell, Jr. Distinguished Professor at Middlebury College and the Chair of Diversity and Equity Committee of the Association for Asian Studies
Poetry's Essential Place in Anti-Colonial Philosophy
March 15, 2024
The University of Pennsylvania will welcome poet Jason Allen-Paisant for a discussion on the intersection of poetry, philosophy, and anti-colonial praxis. Jason Allen-Paisant is a scholar, award-winning poet, and writer. He explores the ways in which Afro-diasporic artists and communities shape their futures through embodied, living philosophies. His first book of poems, Thinking with Trees won the poetry category of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His second, Self-Portrait as Othello, is a Poetry Book Society Choice and the winner of the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Collection as well as the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize. Reception to follow.
Reclaiming Black Women's Lives: A Symposium Honoring the Intellectual Work of Deborah Gray White
March 21, 2024
Reclaiming Black Women's Lives: A Symposium Honoring the Intellectual Work of Deborah Gray White celebrates the path-breaking work of Board of Governors Distinguished History Professor Deborah Gray White. Deborah Gray White is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey and a Distinguished Fellow at the Rutgers Institute for Global Racial Justice.
Denice Frohman - "Poetry of Resistance"
March 27, 2024
Denice Frohman will perform "Poetry of Resistance," and will focus on her environmental justice work and recent work with the Climate Futurism Group in her lecture.
March 28, 2024
A special lecture by the niece of Legendary Author and Anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston.
Writers in Camden: Lauren Grodstein & Gregory Pardlo
March 28, 2024
Rutgers–Camden MFA Faculty Lauren Grodstein and Gregory Pardlo will read from their work.
February 2024
Black Liberation Philosophy: Shaykh Musa Kamara and the Fate of the Humanities
February 6, 2024
In May of 1924, Kamara sent hundreds of unbound manuscript pages to be reviewed, edited, and translated for publication. After years of consulting Arabic manuscripts and collecting oral testimonies from griots, village chiefs, and others, Kamara hoped to see his reconstruction of West African history in print. He never would. The evolution of colonial knowledge would render his work illegible to much academic scholarship. Based on close reading, archival research in Senegal, and interviews with Kamara’s descendants, this presentation also develops a theory of Black Liberation Philology as a method for global Black studies.
ISGRJ Race and Religion Lecture Series: Global Circuits of Difference with Dr. Madina Thiam
February 14, 2024
The Race and Religion series at ISGRJ-Newark seeks to center conversations about the intersections of race and religion, and the racialization of religion, from historical and contemporary perspectives, in the U.S. and globally. As categories of identity and identification, race and religion have historically overlapped and competed as primary forms of differentiation and markers of difference.
Afro Dominican Music: Racializing the Caribbean Panel/Concert
February 16, 2024
Imperial nation states often racialize the Caribbean as only Black, which in turn flattens the racial diversity and racialization processes that happen within the Caribbean.
February 17, 2024
We look forward to seeing you at the 2024 Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series "La Fuerza de las Voces Negras: Afrolatinidades en las Americas; The Power of Black Voices: Afrolatin Identities in the Americas" on Saturday, February 17, 2024. We're excited to hear from esteemed speakers: Ariana Curtis, Tanya K. Hernandez, Nodia Mena and Lorgia Garcia Pena and celebrate the power of diverse voices!
Joy and Pain: BGHRA in Africana Studies Annual Conference
February 24, 2024
The Black German Heritage & Research Association in Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Camden and the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, are pleased to invite you celebrate the Seventh International Conference. This year’s three-day, virtual event, JOY… and PAIN, will be held on February 22-24, 2024 and will be free and open to the public. This moment, this life, in which the pairing of two simple words, joy and pain, succinctly articulates the human condition. This year’s annual BGHRA Conference: Joy…and Pain, invites us to consider what means to hold space for both, to understand that at the core, exists love.
February 28, 2024
Dr. Ramon will read from his book, and be in conversation with Dr. Michelle Stephens, Founding and Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Dr. Nancy Sinkoff, Academic Director of The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University will moderate the Q&A.
Bringing Dignity to Divided Times with Dr. Donna Hicks
February 28, 2024
In moments of heightened conflict, we individually and collectively demonstrate our commitment to being an inclusive community. To hold space for those with whom we disagree.
February 29, 2024
Dr. Vetri Nathan will officially launch his new humanities lab, with welcoming remarks by Dr. Michelle Stephens, Founding and Executive Director of the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and Rutgers Humanities Dean Rebecca Walkowitz. He will briefly describe the vision and goals of the lab and then converse with guest experts Jason Baldes, Executive Director of the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative, Shana Drimal, Senior Wildlife Conservation Associate, Greater Yellowstone Coalition and Wes Martel, Senior Wind River Conservation Associate, Greater Yellowstone Coalition.
Policing the Interior: Black Domestic Life and the Modern Carceral State
February 29, 2024
Please join IRW for the fourth talk in its 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series on the theme of "Possession." Professor Sarah Haley (Columbia University) will discuss "Policing the Interior: Black Domestic Life and the Modern Carceral State" at 4:30 p.m. at the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus, Rutgers-New Brunswick. This event is free and open to the public and will be preceded by a 4 pm reception.
Protecting Black Women: The Problem of Online Violence
February 29, 2024
Protecting Black Women is a moderated conversation between Dr. Brittney Cooper, Founding Director and Principal Investigator of RAGE Lab, Sabrina Hersi Issa, a human rights technologist, angel investor, and Managing Partner at Democracy Well, and Jotaka Eaddy, CEO and Founder of Full Circle Strategies, a Black-owned and women-led organization committed to curating a culture of anti-racism. This conversation will address the growing problem of digital violence and harassment that Black women and girls are experiencing by envisioning the ways we can mobilize technology companies, governments, academic spaces, and grassroots movements to address the problem.
Vulnerable Beauty: A Signature on the Soundstage Event featuring Ocean Vuong
February 29, 2024
We had the honor of hosting New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed poet and essayist Ocean Vuong for our signature on the soundstage Institute event at Alexander Library on the Rutgers University—New Brunswick campus on February 29, 2024.
January 2024
Hate in the U.S. Today Webinar – Part of the Reject Hate Documentary Series
January 17, 2024
Conflict Tests Our Commitment In moments of heightened conflict, we individually and collectively demonstrate our commitment to being an inclusive community. To hold space for those with whom we disagree. Join us on January 17, 2024, at 12 pm for a screening of "Hate in the U.S. Today" as part of the "Reject Hate" Documentary Series. Lecia Brooks, the former outreach director of the Southern Poverty Law Center at the UMass Amherst Symposium on Polarization, delivers this lecture.
What Does Community Mean in a Polarized Society? with Kazu Haga
January 25, 2024
Join us on January 25, 2024, at 12 pm to hear from Kazu Haga as part of the "Navigating Tensions, Affirming Community" Speaker Series.
Spectral Evidence: A Special Book Launch and Talk with Gregory Pardlo
January 30, 2024
Please come and celebrate the launch of Gregory Pardlo's latest poetry collection, Spectral Evidence. Greg will be in conversation with MacArthur Fellow and national book award winner Imani Perry at the New York Public Library Main Branch (42nd St. & 5th Ave).
Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life Screening
January 31, 2024
Join us on January 31, 2024, at 5:30 pm for a screening of Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life as part of the "Reject Hate" Documentary Series.
Other events in 2023
December 2023
Revisiting Corpus: A World Aids Day Celebration
December 4, 2023
2023 marks the 20th anniversary of Corpus, an HIV prevention publication supported by AIDS Project Los Angeles. Between 2003 and 2008, seven issues were developed with guest editors and distributed bi-annually for free across the United States in a circulation of 5,000. Corpus stood out from the mainstream HIV space for several reasons. Corpus was an art and literary journal that invited readers to resist the ways the AIDS industry pathologized queer people’s lives and bodies.
Conversation & Connections with Amir Moosavi
December 4, 2023
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-Newark proudly continues its "Conversation & Connections" series with the next presentation featuring Amir Moosavi, Assistant Professor in the English Department at Rutgers University-Newark.
Decemeber 4, 2023
Lecture presentation, music performance and poetry reading
November 2023
November 7, 2023
A screening of J.T. Roane's film, PLOT, followed by a discussion with contributing artists as part of a talk back. Victor Le. Givens will also be screening his work and participating in a discussion about his work afterwards.
Gathering Ancestors: Spirit Possession, Theory, and Queer Feminist Futures
November 9, 2023
Please join us for the third event in IRW’s 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series, "Gathering Ancestors: Spirit Possession, Theory, and Queer Feminist Futures" a conversation between Carlos Decena (Latino and Caribbean Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, & Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, Rutgers-New Brunswick) and Solimar Otero (Folklore and Ethnomusicology & Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington).
Novmeber 9, 2023
This conference offers a unique opportunity to reflect, from multidisciplinary perspectives, on the complexities and challenging power of Afro-Caribbean agency. Keynote Speakers Mabel Cuesta University of Houston Emily Maguire Northwestern University Stephan Palmié The University of Chicago.
Conversation & Connections with Professor Ezgi Cakmak
November 13, 2023
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-Newark proudly presents "Conversation and Connections" series with the next fall 2023 presentation by Ezgi Cakmak, ISGRJ Postdoctoral Associate and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. Her presentation will be on Reminders of the Imperial Nostalgia: Encounters with Blackness in the Early Turkish Republic.
Quilting Water: Voicing Our Stories
November 17, 2023
The event featured celebrated lead artist for Quilting Water Renata Merrill and acclaimed writer and art quilter Jacqueline Johnson, and a special performance by the Resistance Revival Chorus, a collective of women and non-binary singers, led by led by musical director Abena Koomson-Davis, who joined together to breathe joy and song into the resistance, and to uplift and center women’s voices.
Tales and African Mythology Psychotherapy: Rethinking Mental Health From a Decolonial Perspective
November 27, 2023
This presentation will define those bases, explain how they shape people’s individual and social representations and introduce a decolonial method for psychotherapy that uses indigenous content as a lever for the therapeutic alliance.
The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance
November 28, 2023
Book talk on The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance (NYU Press, 2023) by Dr. Sarah Tosh, Rutgers University-Camden
Round Table Discussion: When will the Joy Come: Black Women in the Ivory Tower (2023)
November 30, 2023
BOOK LAUNCH ALERT- When Will the Joy Come? Black Women in the Ivory Tower (2023) JOIN THE EDITORS FOR AN IN-PERSON ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ON EXPLORING BLACK WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION PANELISTS INCLUDE: Dr. Deborah Gray White (Rutgers University), Dr. Leigh-Anne Francis (The College of New Jersey) & Ms. Alonna Carter Donaldson (Duquesne University).
October 2023
Conversation & Connections with Wendell Marsh: Religious Readings of a West African Sufi
October 2, 2023
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-Newark proudly continues its Conversation & Connection series with the next Fall 2023 lecture presentation by Wendell Marsh, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.
October 6, 2023
A workshop and discussion of the NJ Reparations Council.
USF MaGrann Global Black Geographies Conference
October 8, 2023
The Magrann/USF Conference brings together a global network of researchers and activists interested in Black geographic studies and activist interventions against the racialized power dynamics that perpetuate devaluation, extraction, expropriation and marginalization of Black lives and majority-Black places.
Viral/Vital Series: The Virus Touch w/Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh
October 12, 2023
This will be a fully virtual event, where the moderator and guest keynote speaker will be having a conversation from their personal locations via their laptops.
IRW 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series: Burial of this Order
October 12, 2023
Please join us for the second event in IRW’s 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series, “Burial of this Order,” featuring scholar/filmmaker/artist Jane Jin Kaisen (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts) with discussants Alexandra Chang (Rutgers-Newark) and Suzy Kim (Rutgers New Brunswick).
Who's Passing for Whom? African Americans, Jews, and the Shifting Color Line
October 17, 2023
In the Amazon Prime original movie Master (2022), the character Liv, a university professor, passes as Black to achieve tenure. Liv is White and possibly Jewish, but the film implies that academia affords African Americans specialized treatment via affirmative action.
Screening of Silver Dollar Road and Discussion with Academy Award-Nominated Filmmaker Hébert Peck
October 18, 2023
Please join us for a special advance screening of Silver Dollar Road, a new documentary from Academy-Award Nominee Raoul Peck (director of I Am Not Your Negro, Best Documentary Feature Academy-Award nominee and Best Documentary BAFTA Award winner).
Literature, Critical Theory, and Black Ecologies
October 18, 2023
This virtual event will explore how Black writers--across literatures and in quotidian Black expressive cultures--script, narrate, reimagine, theorize, and counter the order naturalizing Black vulnerability and ecocide as well as how these writers generate new epistemes for imagining a different order.
Race and Empire in the European Project
October 24, 2023
A mini two-day symposium sponsored by the Center for European Studies
State of Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Forum
October 25, 2023
This free, hybrid event is based on the recent release of a WorkRise (at the Urban Institute)-sponsored survey research project of U.S. workers about racial and ethnic discrimination in the workplace, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging policies and practices. The event will feature a data presentation from the study, which also included interviews with workers of color, as well as a panel discussion with leaders in this space from the University, the State of New Jersey, and the private sector.
Humanities Action Lab Climates of Inequality Convening: Communities Joining Forces
October 26, 2023
The Humanities Action Lab is calling upon organizers, scholars, and students from ten communities at the forefront of the climate crisis to unite for the 2023 National Convening, themed "Communities Joining Forces."
Elizabeth Detention Center: Past, Present, and Future
October 27, 2023
Bridging perspectives from formerly detained community members, grassroots organizers, academics, and policy experts, Rutgers University-New Brunswick's Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, in collaboration with American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), First Friends of NJ and NY, and Detention Watch Network, will host a full day symposium on the Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC) on October 27.
Antiracism and Liberation in the Academy
October 27, 2023
In this seminar, we take up the emergence, development, and evolution of Black and ethnic studies departments and programs (including Native American/indigenous, Latinx/Chicanx, Asian American, Arab American, Critical Muslim studies) in the contemporary U.S. universities.
Teaching Against Erasure Convening
October 28, 2023
Sessions will emphasize strategies for integrating content focused on Black, Indigenous, Latinx, LGBTQIA+ and Dis/Abilities studies material into the existing New Jersey core curriculum content.
Conversation with Dr. Lorgia García-Peña, Moderated by Dr. Evie Shockley & Dr. Sylvia Chan-Malik
October 30, 2023
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Lorgia Garcia-Peña, Professor of Latinx Studies, Effron Center for the Study the Americas and African American Studies at Princeton University.
September 2023
Doing Black Feminism in Public - A Conversation with Roxane Gay and Brittney Cooper
September 13, 2023
The Rutgers Race and Gender Equity (R.A.G.E.) Lab launches its first signature initiative, “Black Feminism in the Public Sphere,” with a special event entitled “Doing Black Feminism in Public,” a conversation with Dr. Brittney Cooper, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies and Principal Investigator of RAGE Lab and Dr. Roxane Gay, author of the New York Times bestselling books Bad Feminist and Hunger, and the current Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.
September 14, 2023
The Diaspora Solidarity Lab (DSL) takes on catastrophe as repetition, as socially produced, and as having an ongoing proximity to Black life. We bring together artists, activists, and scholars who reflect on the many iterations of catastrophe, who define how they understand catastrophe, and who contemplate how catastrophe may hold together Black diasporic communities.
Songs of Trevor Weston and Ignatius Sancho: A Premiere Performance and Discussion
September 20, 2023
Soprano Sonya Headlam and historical keyboardist Rebecca Cypess present a world-premiere performance of songs by Trevor Weston based on the letters of Ignatius Sancho (ca. 1729–1780).
September 20, 2023
Professor James Jones, author of the forthcoming book The Last Plantation, about Black staffers on Capitol Hill, will be in conversation with New York Times reporter and Pulitzer finalist Jeff Mays, who covered Cory Booker and Newark City Hall for the Star Ledger before covering Eric Adams and New York City Hall for the New York Times.
The Sawyer Seminar: Institutionalizing Change
September 20, 2023
The goal of this final seminar is to have a frank conversation on how to turn scholarly insights into institutional action and create community consensus on immigration and educational access for the greater Newark community. It features a roundtable discussion with eminent leaders, migration scholars, and advocates on how to institutionalize that change, starting with the institutions of Newark.
September 22, 2023
The 2023 Racial Justice Summit is the first student-led event to explore the future of racial justice on all three Rutgers campuses, encourage personal and intellectual growth, and help bolster nuanced conversation about community, activism, and responsibility. This event showcases the first year of activity of our undergraduate Fellows in Racial Justice (RAJU) at the ISGRJ.
September 22, 2023
The tour will be lead by the program director, María del Mar Caragol Rivera, and ICP’s art collection registrar, Laura Quiñones Navarro, who will display and discuss artifacts and sources illuminating Puerto Rico’s slaveholding, slave trafficking, and anti-black past, as well as its connection to the rest of the Atlantic world.
Teaching Against Erasure: Carceral Practice in the Classroom
September 28, 2023
Speak only when spoken to or when the teacher acknowledges your raised hand. Ask to use the bathroom–except during a test. Follow instructions and limit your questions–unless you want to be labeled a “problem.” These are some of the lessons millions of students learn in public and private school institutions where behavior is prized over meaningful learning.
The Dispossessed Rethink Possession: Lesbian Communal Alternatives
September 28, 2023
Please join IRW for the first talk in its 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series on the theme of "Possession."
August 2023
Just Harvest, Food Justice Through Community Empowerment
August 19, 2023
Just Harvest will host a gathering to collectively envision food and environmental justice for our community, surrounding communities, and similar communities around the world. The gathering will include an art gallery, film screenings, music, dance, discussions, and the launch of a magazine centering on these themes.
July 2023
2023 Poets and Scholars Summer Writers Retreat
July 11, 2023 - July 21, 2023
We are thrilled to announce the third annual Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat, a signature project of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) at Rutgers University. This year, we are expanding the possibilities of our community even further. In this spirit, the Retreat will be hosted completely virtually, bridging gaps of geography, and granting accessibility to those unable to travel.
June 2023
Walking in his Footsteps: A Tribute to Paul Robeson
June 9, 2023
Starting at Kirkpatrick Chapel, this walking tour of Old Queens and the Voorhees Mall is seen from the perspective of Paul Robeson.
In-Person: On the Legacies of Black Creative Arts / Spirit of the Ancestors
June 10, 2023
Through honoring our spirituality and the ancestors and visionaries who laid the way, we come together to find healing paths forward. This roundtable brings together members of the first two panels for a free flowing conversation and exchange of ideas.
Arts in Health Research Lab Mission-Building Retreat
June 20, 2023
The visioning day will be led by the Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership with guest Jill Sonke (University of Florida), a leader in the field of Arts in Health. We will meet on June 20, 2023, from 9:00AM-5:00PM at Mason Gross (Mortensen Hall, 85 George Street, New Brunswick), and food and coffee will be served throughout!
May 2023
The New Brunswick/North Brunswick High Schools Public Memory Project
May 9, 2023
The New Brunswick/North Brunswick High Schools Public Memory Project brings together community members, scholars, and artists to explore the history behind the creation of two separate and racially segregated high schools in 1974. Join us to hear excerpts from oral histories that coLAB Arts (https://colab-arts.org/) has been conducting. Meeting attendees will also be invited to share individual memories, and to weigh in on a public art mural being created by this project.
May 25, 2023
To support the mental health of Rutgers postdocs, the Office of Postdoctoral Advancement is hosting Postdoc Pause: A Wellness Day on Thursday, May 25, from 12:00-3:00 pm in Trayes Hall at the Douglass Student Center.
April 2023
Liminal Spaces: Between No Longer And Not Yet
April 2, 2023
Now offered entirely online. Three-part conference begins with a virtual panel on Friday evening, followed by two full days of panels and discussion, which may be attended online or in person, featuring keynotes by Adam Phillips and Claudia Rankine, and over 30 panelists.
Environmental Justice: Confronting Environmental Disparities through a National and Local Lens
April 3, 2023
This half-day Symposium will bring together leaders from academia, community organizations, and the government to examine how impacted communities historically fought for change and what lessons can be learned from these efforts. It will also explore ways New Jersey is leading the fight for environmental justice and where work remains to be done.
So We Can Know: A Generative Writing Workshop with Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde
April 5, 2023
This generative writing workshop, inspired by the forthcoming anthology So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth, and presented by the ISGRJ-Camden Occasions for Gathering Series, brings together women and birthing people to share their reproductive health stories in a supportive environment.
The Sawyer Seminar at RU-N: Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City
April 7, 2023
Based at Rutgers-Newark, a university with a highly diverse student body, a highly active scholarly faculty, and deep roots as an anchor institution in the city of Newark, this seminar series will examine the past, present, and future of Newark in order to examine race, inequality, and immigration in the constantly changing immigrant cultures of America’s cities.
Sandy Rodriguez: To Translate the Unfathomable | Exhibition & Artist's Lecture
April 7, 2023
The Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce that renowned artist Sandy Rodriguez, has been named the 2022-23 Estelle Lebowitz Endowed Visiting Artist at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Karima 2G concert and conversation
April 12, 2023
Talk, Q&A, and Concert with Liberian Italian, singer, songwriter, theatrical performer, and beatmaker Karima 2G.
Pathways to a Career on Capitol Hill
April 12, 2023
Join The Eagleton Institute of Politics for a conversation with Professor Saladin Ambar, John Raidt, former Congressional Staff Director, and Ivan Schlagner, former Democratic Staff Director, about their pathways to a career in public service.
Literature, Critical Theory, and Black Ecologies
April 12, 2023
This virtual event will explore how Black writers--across literatures and in quotidian Black expressive cultures-- script, narrate, reimagine, theorize, and counter the order naturalizing Black vulnerability and ecocide as well as how these writers generate new epistemes for imagining a different order.
April 19, 2023
The Lourdes Casal Project, the Center for Latin American Studies - Brazil Working Group, the Chancellor’s Office, and the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice invite you to a lecture with Prof. Gustavo Fortes Said: "At the Edge of Language, we are all 'Carcamanos:'" Syrian-Lebanese Immigrant Identification in Piauí, Brazil.
April 21, 2023
Kendra Boyd (Rutgers Camden), Michelle Nickerson (Loyola University, Chicago), Simon Balto (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Johanna Fernandez (Baruch College, City University of New York, New York City) and student researchers join a group discussion of event participants, students, scholars, and community members about how to commemorate and preserve the memory of the events in Camden.
Viral/Vital Conditions: The Viral Underclass with Steven W. Thrasher
April 22, 2023
This signature on the soundstage event featuring Steven Thrasher, acclaimed author, professor, journalist and inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of Social Justice in Reporting at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism was held on March 22, 2023.
The Racial Muslim with Sahar Aziz and Deborah Amos
April 24, 2023
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-Newark proudly continues its Race and Religion series with the next spring 2023 signature book talk featuring Sahar Aziz, Rutgers Professor of Law, Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar, founding Director of the Center for the Security, Race, and Rights and acclaimed author of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom.
April 26, 2023
A seminar on extremist groups and the state of hate in New Jersey.
March 2023
March 3, 2023
This enlightening feature documentary is directed by independent filmmaker Esther Figueroa, who will be joining us for a discussion and reception following the screening!
March 3, 2023
This exploration will consider the shared land, water, history, and peoples realities now and five years from now. Where and how do we build partnerships moving us closer to just ecological futures? Participants will be invited to join the roundtable to contribute more voices for expanded dialogue.
March 4, 2023
Dr. Roxane Gay, the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair, will be hosting a full day writing workshop for RU-NB faculty and staff on writing for the public as underrepresented scholars. The event will feature masterclass lectures and an opportunity for participants to work in groups to improve their own writing.
FACULTY APPRECIATION SERIES: Dr. Carlos U. Decena
March 9, 2023
Latino and Caribbean Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick present the next event in the Faculty Appreciation Series featuring Dr. Carlos U. Decena, author of Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean on Thursday, March 9 from 4-7pm.
New Perspectives on Haiti: Screening of FREDA
March 9, 2023
Please join us for a screening of FREDA a film by Haitian writer-director Gessica Généus. The film follows the life of Freda, a young Haitian woman, who lives in a poor neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. Her family makes ends meet thanks to their small street shop in the Haitian capital. Faced with precarious living conditions and the rise of violence in Haiti, each of them wonders whether to stay or leave. Freda wants to believe in the future of her country.
Confronting Racism, Discrimination and Othering: Perspectives from Around the World
March 11, 2023
Padraic X. Scanlan is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Industrial Relations and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution (Yale, 2017), and Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain(Robinson, 2020). He is writing The Irish Question, a history of labour in the era of the Irish Great Famine, to be published by Robinson (UK) and Basic Books (USA and Canada).
So We Can Know: A Generative Writing Workshop with Vanessa Mártir
March 15, 2023
This generative writing workshop, inspired by the forthcoming anthology So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth, and presented by the ISGRJ-Camden Occasions for Gathering Series, brings together women and birthing people to share their reproductive health stories in a supportive environment.
Fanon Unbound: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Frantz Fanon
March 17, 2023
The Francophone, Italian, & Germanic Studies and the Philosophy Departments at the University of Pennsylvania are hosting an interdisciplinary workshop to discuss the work of Martinican philosopher, psychiatrist, and revolutionary Frantz Fanon, and its continued relevance in the 21st century.
“Queer Black Dance:" Thirty-Five Years of Choreography and Film with David Roussève
March 22, 2023
This program explores these questions with David Roussève and former artists of his “REALITY” dance company. Roussève is a choreographer/writer/director/performer, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Bessie awardee, Creative Capital Fellow, three-time Horton awardee, CalArts/Alpert awardee in Dance, recipient of four Best Film awards for his three short films, and grantee of seven consecutive NEA fellowships.
Becoming Global Social Change Agents: Causes, Advocacy, and Impact Through Latinx Studies
March 23, 2023
Dr. Roure will discuss pipeline programs and domestic and international volunteerism opportunities she directs, from access to law, graduate, or medical school to free surgical programs for the uninsured. Promoting diversity, inclusion, and social and policy change in a human rights context for underrepresented and underserved populations in all areas of study is vital to your global citizenship.
Linked Data, Omeka S, and New Jersey Slavery Records
March 29, 2023
New Jersey Slavery Records is a new portal that aims to document the history of slavery in our communities through digital archival sources and linked open data. The portal was created by the Scarlet and Black Research Center at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice.
Talk, Workshop and Lunch with Dr. Olivette Otele and Dr. Kennetta Hammond Perry
March 29, 2023
Dr. Otele will be in conversation with Dr. Kennetta Hammond Perry, Associate Professor of African American Studies at North Western University. Dr. Perry’s research examines Black diasporic communities and political formations shaped by and within the imperial bordering of Britain.
Refugee Youth: Breaking the Cycle of Statelessness:
March 30, 2023
The event is a screening of 3 short films about refugee youth followed by a moderated discussion in the auditorium at The Newark Museum. In the wake of the State Department's recent initiative Welcome Corps, a panel of refugees, advocates, and proponents of expanding refugee access to higher education will use the films to provide information and answer questions about what individuals, advocacy organizations and higher ed institutions can do to host, support, and educate refugees in NJ.
March 30, 2023
Utilizing the insights of radical Black feminist pragmatism, the political philosophy of the Black Lives Matter Movement, and building on the notion of democratic care proposed by Joan Tronto, Woodly defines and illuminates what she calls a politics of care.
The Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium
March 31, 2023
Well beyond the boundaries of “girlhood studies,” the girl often lurks where she is not an explicit subject of inquiry. As a figure enmeshed in processes of racial capitalism, colonialism, and carcerality, how might the girl inform visions of, and struggles for, transformation and liberation?
February 2023
February 2, 2023
Dr. Garcia's will give her talk (in-person), "Unearthing the Otherwise: Ethnographic Methods for the Caribbean Anthropocene," followed by dinner.
Sandy Rodriguez: To Translate the Unfathomable | Exhibition & Artist's Lecture
February 3, 2023
The Lebowitz program annually brings to the University community and general public the work and ideas of exceptional women artists through solo exhibitions, lectures, and short campus residencies. Sandy Rodriguez: To Translate the Unfathomable will be on view from January 17 – April 7, 2023, in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries, Douglass Library.
February 4, 2023
Join us for a discussion of J. T. Roane's new book, Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place. In this book, author J.T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly—dark agoras—in twentieth century Philadelphia.
Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion with Professor Evelyn Alsultany
February 16, 2023
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-Newark proudly presents our first signature spring 2023 book talk event featuring Evelyn Alsultany, Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, acclaimed author and leading expert on the History of Representations of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. Media.
Book Launch Party with Leslie M. Alexander and J.T. Roane
February 16, 2023
Join us for a casual virtual book launch celebration with Professor Leslie M. Alexander and ISGRJ Named Term Chair Professor J.T. Roane on their newly released and forthcoming titles: Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States by Leslie M. Alexander (Dec. 2022, University of Illinois Press) and Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place by J.T. Roane (Jan. 2023, New York University Press)
Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo with Dr. Rachel Quinn
February 16, 2023
Please join us for a special book event featuring Dr. Rachel Quinn on Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo.
February 18, 2023
After openings from Political and University dignitaries there will be lectures from four food historians: Dr. Edda Fields-Black, Jessica B. Harris, Lolis Eric Ellie, and Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson.
February 20, 2023
Film Screening: Autumn Beat. Meet Antonio Dikele Distefano, well-known Italian author turned screenwriter. He’ll be joined by Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, filmmaker-activist-producer-educator. Autumn Beat is an exciting and unprecedented story about Black culture in Italy, and the role of music as a means of redemption and search for identity.
Our Land, Our Stories - A Multimedia Experience
February 21, 2023
Our Land, Our Stories - A Multimedia Experience Tuesday FEB.21 5:30pm CCA - Academic Building West, Room 6051 On Tuesday Feb. 21 the CCA will host an event introducing various aspects of the multimedia project Our Land, Our Stories, created with the Ramapough Lunaape Nation Turtle Clan. It includes a documentary film, book, exhibits, and original artwork.
Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine Seminar Series
February 22, 2023
In this talk, Jasmine Brown distills the lessons from her debut book, TWICE AS HARD, telling the story of black women who overcame countless barriers to become physicians and who made significant contributions to medicine and healthcare, from the Civil War through to the present. Now a medical student, Brown is shedding light on the black women doctor role models she grew up without. By sharing these stories, she hopes to inspire students to pursue their wildest dreams, even if their path is riddled with obstacles.
American Studies Brown Bag Lunch Workshop
February 22, 2023
Please join the American Studies Department on Wednesday, February 22, from 11:30AM to 12:30PM, for Indian food and a lunchtime workshop with Eun-Jin Keish Kim (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, Rutgers University). Keish will be sharing and discussing the essay: "''Today we march on stolen lands': Land, Citizenship, and Disability in Undocumented Immigrant Youth Organizing." Comment will be provided by Jameson Sweet (Assistant Professor, American Studies).
February 23, 2023
This presentation will address some of the contemporary manifestations which reposition women's rights to leadership.
So We Can Know: A Generative Writing Workshop
February 23, 2023
This generative writing workshop, inspired by the forthcoming anthology So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth, and presented by the ISGRJ-Camden Occasions for Gathering Series, brings together women and birthing people to share their reproductive health stories in a supportive environment.
Art as Resistance: Transcultural Expressions: BGHRA 6th International Conference
February 23, 2023 - February 25, 2023
The Black German Heritage & Research Association in Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Camden and the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice are pleased to invite you to the Sixth International BGHRA Conference. Organized around the theme of "Art as Resistance: Transcultural Expressions," it seeks to illuminate Black diasporic histories, artistry, and resistance in Europe and beyond.
January 2023
Work in Black and White: Imagining a Just Racial Future
January 25, 2023
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice Black Bodies, Black Health Project proudly presents "Work in Black and White: Imagining a Just Racial Future", "A Book Talk by Professor Enobong (Anna) Branch", and "Moderated by Professor Michelle Stephens".
January 25, 2023 - March 25, 2023
Archive as Memorial is an exhibition curated by Tomie Arai and Diane Wong, and members of the A/P/A Voices: A COVID-19 Public Memory Project, a volunteer team of Asian American and Pacific Islander cultural workers, oral historians, educators, caretakers, and activists who have worked collaboratively since lockdown in March of 2020 to document the COVID-19 pandemic and the myriad ways it has impacted Asian/Pacific/American communities in New York and beyond.
Other events in 2022
December 2022
December 1, 2022
In an event co-hosted by Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness and the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Tanya Katerí Hernández for a presentation on her newest book, Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and The Struggle for Equality, published in 2022 by Beacon Press.
Viral/Vital Conditions: A World AIDS Day Celebration in Times of COVID
December 1, 2022
Our opening hybrid event celebrates World AIDS Day, as we are living the AIDS epidemic in a world now also shaped by COVID-19 and the recent spread of Monkeypox. Our panel consisting of students, artists and activist veterans of the AIDS, COVID-19 and Monkeypox crises will consider the long-historical dimensions and practicality of living in a world increasingly shaped by multiple meanings of virality.
Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez Book Talk and Holiday Reception
December 5, 2023
Please join the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies (RAICCS) and CLAS' Interdisciplinary Caribbean Working Group NEXT WEEK Monday December 5th at 4:30 pm for a book talk by Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vàsquez, followed by the RAICCS annual holiday reception!
AFRICAN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP): Looking Back to the Future
December 15, 2022
Marivate, Chair of Data Science and leader of the Data Science for Social Impact group, will describe his work to ensure that African languages and local language tasks “count” on the African continent and beyond. Such research into African NLP is part of an important multidisciplinary conversation. As large language models continue to power the dominant paradigm in conversational “AI,” these technologies focus on English (especially as spoken in North America) and other “western” languages and populations.
November 2022
Intro. to Intersectional Environmentalism
November 2, 2022
Leah Thomas, AKA Green Girl Leah, will be sharing her life story and what drove her to advocate for environmental justice. Leah is an eco-communicator, aka an environmentalist with a love for writing and creativity, based in Ventura, CA.
Breath Work: Schooling and the Politics of Black Aspiration
November 7, 2022
Join educator, scholar, and writer Amelia Simone Herbert for a discussion about how schools can create more breathing room for Black youth in hostile atmospheres by moving education beyond inculcating aspiration and toward activating a capacity to conspire for collective visions of racial and spatial justice. Lunch provided.
The 2022 Italian Election Results: Past, Present and Futures
November 9, 2022
The September 2022 Italian General Election has led to the formation the most far-right government since Benito Mussolini, with the first woman prime minister at its helm--Giorgia Meloni. This event will feature three respected scholars discussing the who's, why's and what's of this consequential moment.
November 11, 2022
As part of a global conversation on the struggles and shifts of the social, political, and cultural terrain of women, queer identities and desires, and Black lives, I am proud to announce MOVIMENTO - A Virtual Symposium on Portuguese Queer, Feminist, and Black Histories and Cultures, November 11, 2022, on Zoom.
Placing African American and Latinx Histories at the Center of the New Freedom School Curriculum
November 14, 2022
This is a zoom discussion about intersections of Latinx and African American history, arguing that understanding these intersections changes the way we understand the country's history.
AFRICAN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP): Looking Back to the Future
December 15, 2022
Marivate, Chair of Data Science and leader of the Data Science for Social Impact group, will describe his work to ensure that African languages and local language tasks “count” on the African continent and beyond. Such research into African NLP is part of an important multidisciplinary conversation. As large language models continue to power the dominant paradigm in conversational “AI,” these technologies focus on English (especially as spoken in North America) and other “western” languages and populations.
More Than Segregation: The Mechanisms of Global Anti-Blackness Today
November 16, 2022
This event will feature four keynote speakers -- Drs. Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Dawne Mouzon, Donna Murch, and Kevon Rhiney -- in conversation on the shifting manifestations of contemporary anti-Blackness.
White Space, Black Hood: A Book Talk with Professor Sheryll Cashin
November 17, 2022
Sheryll Cashin will be discussing her most recent book, White Space, Black Hood which is about the role of segregation and redlining in reproducing inequality.
November 23, 2022
It is within this context that the University of Johannesburg’s Institute for the Future of Knowledge (IFK) is organizing a hybrid seminar on revolutionary insights from the music of South African Miriam Makeba, Nigerian Fela Kuti, Jamaican Bob Marley and American Tupac Shakur. Through their music, these artists emerged as symbols of revolution, non-racialism and Pan-Africanism across Africa, the Caribbean, the United States and further afield. Indeed, their songs and poetry have inspired many activists, policymakers and the general public.
October 2022
October 4, 2022
Talk by Prof. Catelli will lecture from her recent book Arqueología del mestizaje. Colonialismo y racialización (2020). Followed by a conversation with graduate students about academic careers in South America.
So We Can Know: A Generative Writing Workshop
October 11, 2022
This generative writing workshop, inspired by the forthcoming anthology So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth, brings together women and birthing people with a range of reproductive health experiences, from pregnancy and childbirth to abortion and loss, to share their stories in a supportive environment. We particularly encourage people of color to participate.
October 13, 2022
Rutgers University-Camden Division of Diversity, Inclusion and Civic Engagement welcomes civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez as keynote in the October DICE Master Class speaker series. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Sylvia Mendez will facilitate a master class that highlights her pivotal experience at the young age of nine, as an instrumental part of the landmark Mendez v. Westminster School District (1947) lawsuit that paved the way for Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and ended school segregation in California
Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Patient Engagement and Healthcare Communication
October 14, 2022
This one-day event features two keynote speakers, two-panel discussions from faculty and members of the community, and a poster session that seeks to unite researchers and practitioners to discuss how to improve patient representation in scholarship and equitable communication practices in healthcare.
BlackLab I: Experiments in Theoretical Black Studies
October 17, 2022
This graduate panel will have papers will be given by Ashley Codner (“Chamoiseau’s ‘Ecological Sensibility,’ Or, Toward a Black Peri-Ontological Practice”) and Jorden Sanders (“Sounding Silent, Listening B(l)ack: Toward An Eco-Acoustic Critique of the Human”) with Professor J. T. Roane, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Geography and Andrew W. Mellon chair in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice as panel respondent.
Diversity in Data: Concerning Black Lives Matter, Social Media, and Racial Bias in Data Series
October 17, 2022 - November 14, 2022
The Diversity in Data: Concerning Black Lives Matter, Social Media, and Racial Bias in Data Series included the following workshops: • Black Lives Matter Movement from the Perspectives of Supporters & Opponents: A View from Twitter (Oct 17: 5:00pm - 6:30pm) • When and How do #BlackLivesMatter Beyond the US?: Global Diffusion of the BLM Movement on Twitter (Oct 31: 5:00pm - 6:30pm) • Racial Bias in Policing Data (Nov 14: 5:00pm - 6:30pm) Presented by Burcu Kolcak, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Political Science
Diversity in Data: Algorithmic Bias Series
October 18, 2022 - December 13, 2022
The Diversity in Data: Algorithmic Bias series (disparate outcomes in Artificial Intelligence), include the following worshops: • Who is Responsible for Bias in Algorithmic Decision Making? (Oct 18: 3:00pm - 4:30pm) • How Tech Culture Allows for the Propagation of Algorithmic Bias and Unfairness (Nov 1: 3:00pm - 4:30pm) • How Algorithmic Bias Arrives in Our Tech (Nov 15: 3:00pm - 4:30pm) • Combating Algorithmic Bias 101: How Individuals, Institutions, and Governments Can Regulate and Mitigate Bias in Technology (Nov 29: 3:00pm - 4:30pm) • Methods for Integrating Ethical Considerations Into the Software Development Lifecycle (Dec 13: 3:00pm - 4:30pm) The presenter, Catherine Lee, is a MS candidate, Department of Computer Science.
Ethical Imaginaries Future Paths in Italian Studies
October 20, 2022
Moderated by Dr. Michela Ardizzoni, University of Colorado Boulder. All faculty, students and the members of the public are welcome to participate and discuss! Topics include Beloved Communities in a Troubled World Dr. Vetri Nathan, Rutgers University. After Kicking the Hornet’s Nest: Reflections on Recent DEI Activities in Italian Studies Dr. Deborah Parker, University of Virginia. Dante and the Ethical Imagination: Testimonial Agency and the Imperative to Justice Dr. Catherine Adoyo, University of Richmond. Queer Interstices Dr. Derek Duncan, University of St Andrews. A Voice from the PluriverseDr. Kenyse Lyons, The Catholic University of America
October 20, 2022
Craig Owens, who died of AIDS in 1990 at the age of 39, was a critic, teacher, and one of the founders of VCS, shaping it with his commitments to postmodern theory, contemporary art, feminism, queer studies, and gay activism. He was an associate editor for October and senior editor for Art in America. We honor his memory each year with a lecture given by a distinguished scholar engaging issues related to Owens's interests.
Debating What's Debatable: Understanding the CRT/I Argument
October 27, 2022
This will be a fascinating and insightful conversation on an important topic with Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, who is credited with introducing researchers and scholars in the field of education to CRT. Dr. Ladson-Billings is the Inaugural Distinguished Race and Social Justice in Education Scholar-in-Residence at Rutgers Graduate School of Education and the past president of the National Academy of Education and the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Igiaba Scego Italian Writer Journalist Activist
October 31, 2022
Book Presentation with the author of The Color Line. Translated by John Cullen and Gregory Conti (Other Press, 2022)
September 2022
Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum
September 6, 2022 - December 14, 2022
Featuring prints, photographs, and multimedia artworks, this exhibition is the first time the university has conducted a comprehensive and methodical review of its holdings of art by Black women artists.
September 9, 2022
Fall 2022 New Jersey Film Festival Friday, September 9, 2022 – Online for 24 hours and In-Person at 7PM in Voorhees Hall #105 (CAC)! The Sun Rises in the East – Tayo Giwa (Brooklyn, New York) The Sun Rises in The East chronicles the birth, rise and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Paul Robeson: Hero of Cultural Appropriation
September 29, 2022
A public lecture by philosophy Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum) addressing the tension in Paul Robeson's legacy between his early activism for Black civil rights and his commitments to universalism and socialism.
United Nations International Translation Day
September 30, 2022
Rutgers will celebrate the United Nations' International Translation Day with day-long programming that includes speakers, roundtables, readings, and open houses that focus on the crucial work of translators and interpreters around the globe.
August 2022
August 17, 2022
This 3-day conference featured in-depth engagement with scholars in the broad field of race and health and a mix of speakers and group discussions focusing on racial health disparities and achieving health equity. The conference culminated in the Presidential Keynote by sitting Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway titled "Mapping Value: The Material Consequences of Structural Racism."
July 2022
2022 Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat
July 11, 2022 - July 21, 2022
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University (Rutgers–Camden), with generous support from the Mellon Foundation, is pleased to announce its second annual Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat - Bodies of Text: Crafting the Language of Care.
Building Political Power of the Most Impacted
July 21, 2022
In New Jersey, political power has been concentrated in the hands of a few, leaving many marginalized residents unrepresented in the conversations that shape our society.
June 2022
June 6, 2022 - June 30, 2022
Workshops will be led by senior editors and writing professionals and zero in on common faculty challenges, from project-mapping to writer's block, from productivity to common writing pitfalls to grammar and style.
June 6, 2022
This event will feature two of our nation’s preeminent scholars of Black education in conversation about Givens’ new book, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching.
Re-Envisioning the Future of Educational Equity in New Jersey: A Virtual Statewide Conference
June 11, 2022
This conference for educators, community stakeholders, and researchers was held on June 11, 2022 and was the first in a series of meetings intended to produce an educational equity agenda for the state.
The Dakar Translation Symposium: Africa and Her Diasporas
June 14, 2022 - June 19, 2022
In the hope of fostering a transatlantic dialogue, The Dakar Translation Symposium: Africa and its Diasporas brought together speakers and participants across four continents and four languages as a collaborative effort between the following institutions: Rutgers University, NYU Abu Dhabi, The University of Assane Seck University in Ziguinchor and Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, where the symposium was held from June 14 to June 19, 2022.
CASE and SAS-DEI Juneteenth Screening & Discussion event
June 16, 2022
On Thursday, June 16th from 2-4 pm, we will host a Juneteenth screening and discussion event that will be open to the Rutgers community.
June 21, 2022
Ensuring Health for All is the fifth installment in the IMAGINE MORE: Racial Justice Begins with Us virtual series. This session will break down the spectrum of healthcare disparities and seek solutions to remedy the gaps in mental healthcare, maternal health, and environmental health for Black and Brown New Jersey residents.
May 2022
Writing Our Communities: Amplifying Community Voices
May 4, 2022
This event is part of a series called Writing Our Communities. Each event is a group conversation with Prof. Gregory Pardlo and guest speakers. This final event is Amplifying Community Voices: How can writing with a community affect social change? What does it mean to do this work through a social justice lens?
Mapping Value: Structural Racism and Health Consequences
May 4, 2022
How do we measure our values and what are the consequences of those value systems? President Holloway will examine the history of this valuation through map-making, reflecting upon what these maps tell us about ourselves and the implications of our belief systems.
May 11, 2022
Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education” with Domingo Morel, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Affiliate member of Global Urban Studies and the Center on Law, Inequality, and Metropolitan Equity.
Imagine More: Reaching Equity in Education
May 17, 2022
Too many students in New Jersey lack access to the resources they need to ensure equitable educational opportunities.
Hip Hop Youth Research & Activism Conference
May 20, 2022
The Hip Hop Youth Research and Activism (HHYRA) Conference brings together youth from diverse communities for a day of workshops, dialogues, and interactions that revolve around the ideas of Hip Hop and social justice.
April 2022
66th Annual Conference: International Linguistic Association
April 1, 2022 - April 3, 2022
The theme of the International Linguistic Association's 2022 conference is language and social justice, for which we are soliciting abstracts on the conversations and controversies about race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, economic class, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, age, and any other forms of human difference as they are manifested through language. Papers are also invited on the status, documentation, and revitalization efforts of minority ethnolinguistic communities worldwide.
Writing Our Communities: Writers Centering Community
April 5, 2022
This event is part of a series called Writing Our Communities. Each event is a group conversation with Prof. Gregory Pardlo and guest speakers. This second event is Writers Centering Community: How does a writer grow from serving a community? How can a community grow from being served by a writer?
April 5, 2022
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice in partnership with the Office of the Chancellor-Provost at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Rutgers University Libraries is proud to present: "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
Language and Social Justice Talk: Linguistics For Legal Purposes
April 8, 2022
Dr. John Baugh will present the various ways in which linguistics can be used for legal purposes, beginning with the murder case that launched the field of forensic linguistics.
Conversation & Connections with Frank Garcia
April 14, 2022
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Newark is inviting Rutgers Newark faculty to the 2nd event in our Conversation & Connections lunch series: “Revising the Language of #OwnVoices: Racial/Ethnic Authenticity, Controlling Images, and Gang Life in American Literature”
April 14, 2022
On behalf of Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness and the Black Latinx Americas xLab, we are excited to welcome Dr. Pablo José López Oro for a presentation and workshop on his work-in-progress "The Afterlives of Mestizaje: Hemispheric Anti-Blackness and Black Indigenous Life". Dr. López Oro is an assistant professor of Africana Studies at Smith College.
Resisting Boundedness As A Way To Push Against Essentialism In Linguistics
April 20, 2022
This talk considers how such "bottom-up" approaches to language might not only be useful for linguistic analysis or characterizing individuals' language use, but also as a way of transcending potentially harmful, essentialist constructs such as "native speaker" (Cheng et al. 2021; Bonfiglio 2010). In addition, I discuss some methodological challenges which arise when rejecting such constructs, and potential ways forward.
In Conversation with Moisés Lino e Silva, Author of Minoritarian Liberalism
April 21, 2022
In this visceral ethnography of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Moisés Lino e Silva explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of liberty.
Achieving Safe and Healthy Homes for All
April 26, 2022
This session will explore how pathways to homeownership, investments, and community-building can repair inequities and create wealth and opportunities for our state's diverse communities.
Writers in Camden: Patrick Rosal and Tracy K. Smith
April 27, 2022
Acclaimed poets Patrick Rosal and Tracy K. Smith will read together on the occasion of the publication of Rosal’s The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems and Smith’s Such Color: New And Selected Poems.
Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean
April 28, 2022
Andil Gosine (Professor of Environmental Arts and Justice at York University) in conversation with Michelle Stephens, founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, moderated by Gaiutra Bahadur.
March 2022
March 1, 2022 - March 20, 2022
We are honored to welcome the extremely talented, award-winning Director/ Choreographer Julio Monge who brings us the American English language premiere of the iconic Puerto Rican Academy Award nominee Jacobo Morales. “Baipás” (a byway detour from the main road) presents a magical world in which two very diverse, strong individuals are thrown into a strange place together and using the legendary sensuous Bolero, come to choose life and love. As this man and woman dance through the byways of love between clarity and confusion with a healthy dose of sarcastic humor, they arrive in an unexpected place. A romantic pas de deux!
Writing Our Communities Part 1: Writers Belonging to Communities, Communities Belonging to Writers
March 2, 2022
This event is part of a series called Writing Our Communities. Each event is a group conversation with Prof. Gregory Pardlo and guest speakers. The first event is Writers Belonging to Communities, Communities Belonging to Writers: How does a writer create authentic partnerships that center community? How do we create a meaningful sense of belonging to the communities we serve
Language and Social Justice talk: Linguistic Inequality in Higher Education, Dr. Walt Wolfram
March 4, 2022
Linguistic Inequality in Higher Education: Solving the Problem We Created Notwithstanding the avowed commitment of higher education to equality and inclusion, the issue of language has been excluded from or erased in diversity programs at most universities.
Redefining Justice and Freedom For Everyone: A Talk by Dr. Angela Davis
March 4, 2022
Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Angela Davis has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice. Having helped to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex,” she now urges her audiences to imagine a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st-century abolitionist movement.
March 9, 2022
This exchange uplifts and centers scholarship and activism with Black children. We value the contributions Black children make to how we know and theorize our everyday worlds.
Rutgers Premodern Antiracist Pedagogy Workshop
March 10, 2022
An open conversation concerning the intersection of antiracist pedagogy and the teaching of premodern texts. Our distinguished speakers will share their insights into current theoretical and research trends, their meditations on race and the academy, as well as their experiences as active educators in the premodern classroom, to be followed by a Q+A session and dialogue with the members of the audience.
Education as Disruption Intensive
March 11, 2022
The EAD Intensive is a one-day virtual event providing an opportunity to take advantage of the diversity education and bias prevention offerings available universitywide and beyond.
Disrupting the Criminal Justice System
March 15, 2022
The racial disparities in the prison system in New Jersey are the worst in the nation. Join us for the second installment of the IMAGINE MORE: Racial Justice Begins with Us series as we explore the root causes and discuss strategies to end the criminalization of New Jersey's Black, Brown, and immigrant residents and repair the harms caused by this unjust system.
March 24, 2022
Come hear your colleagues discuss their works-in-progress! This is a low-key, low-stress opportunity to come together, hang out, and hear about what folks are working on.
IRW Distinguished Lecture Series - "The Future of Race" with Michelle Stephens
March 24, 2022
The Institute for Research on Women presents: "The Future of Race"with Michelle Stephens
CCA Presents Commoning the Future: World-Making through New Enclosures and New Commons
March 25, 2022
Commoning is future-making. In this conference, we explore how futures are opened and foreclosed through new processes of enclosure and the creation of new commons.
Book Reception: Freedom's Captives by Yesenia Barragan
March 29, 2022
Join the Slavery + Freedom Studies Working Group to celebrate Dr. Yesenia Barragan’s new book, Freedom’s Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
February 2022
THE IMPLICATIONS OF SOUNDING LIKE A STEREOTYPE: Cognition and African American English
February 9, 2022
This research investigates the relationship between perception of race and perception of emotion by operationalizing the Angry Black Woman Trope through survey and eye-tracking methods. In the first study, participants listened to isolated words from an African American English (AAE) speaker and a Standardized American English (SdAE) speaker in happy, neutral, and angry prosodies, and were asked to indicate the perceived race and emotion of the speaker.
Gender, Violence, and Politics in Haiti
February 17, 2022
The Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies invites you to join this upcoming virtual panel on Gender, Violence, and Politics in Haiti, which is the inaugural event of its new Haiti Series, coordinated by Prof. Shanna Jean-Baptiste.
How Victorianists (Might) Talk About Race: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
February 17, 2022
How Victorianists (Might) Talk About Race: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Black Portraiture[s]: Play and Performance
February 17, 2022 - February 19, 2022
Three Days of Panels, Speaker, and Performances Conclude with the Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series Featuring Keynote Conversations with Bisa Butler, Regina Carter, Kamilah Forbes, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Linda Harrison, Tyler Mitchell, Dominique Morisseau, and Deborah Willis The three-day conference explores the theme of play and performance in past and contemporary African diasporic art and performance and will conclude with a series of groundbreaking keynote conversations for the 42nd Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture at the Newark Museum of Art.
TFAP@CAA 2022 Day(s) of Panels | Feminist Solidarities and Kinships
February 18, 2022
The Feminist Art Project (TFAP), a program of the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities at Rutgers University, now in its sixteenth year of successfully shining a spotlight on feminist art and its impact on culture and politics worldwide, announces the schedule for a series of special free virtual panels focused on the topic of Feminist Solidarities and Kinships.
TFAP@CAA 2022 Day(s) of Panels | Feminist Solidarities and Kinships
February 19, 2022
The Feminist Art Project (TFAP), a program of the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities at Rutgers University, now in its sixteenth year of successfully shining a spotlight on feminist art and its impact on culture and politics worldwide, announces the schedule for a series of special free virtual panels focused on the topic of Feminist Solidarities and Kinships.
Eliminating the Racial Wealth Gap and Ending Poverty
February 24, 2022
IMAGINE MORE: Racial Justice Begins With Us -- a six-part zoom series co-designed with non-profit partners and focused on reparations and racial justice. The goal of the series is to frame New Jersey’s critical racial justice issues and highlight substantive policy and practice remedies for reparations. The sessions will stream live and will be available for later viewing. All are open to the public at no cost. The event will be close-captioned and simultaneously translated into Spanish and Arabic. Our hope is that this series will build awareness about the issues and cultivate energy for action to encourage everyday people to use our power and voices to lead change.
January 2022
Livingston: A Governor, a College, and the Long Echoes of Slavery at Rutgers
January 18, 2022
A new historical marker on Rutgers–New Brunswick’s Livingston campus explains its namesake William Livingston’s deep involvement in slavery and his halting efforts to abolish slavery as New Jersey’s first governor. In this virtual presentation, Robert Snyder LC’77, a professor emeritus of journalism and American studies at Rutgers–Newark, will talk with Jesse Bayker SGS’19, digital archivist for the Scarlet and Black Project at Rutgers–New Brunswick, who will discuss Livingston’s life.
The Music of Ignatius Sancho: The Arts as Black Resistance in 18th-Century London
January 25, 2022
In this concert with commentary, the Raritan Players demonstrate how Sancho drew on the musical tropes of polite, upper-class society to awaken the British public to the evils of slavery and call for their adherence to a higher moral standard. This program, to be performed on period instruments, demonstrates how Sancho used the arts as a vehicle of Black resistance.
Other events in 2021
December 2021
Krista Franklin Visual Poetry
October 13, 2021 - December 11, 2021
Featuring the visual work of writer and visual artist, Krista Franklin, an exhibition inspired by Angela Davis – Seize the Time on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum in Rutgers–New Brunswick.
November 2021
Will Alexander: Refractive Africa
November 8, 2021
A reading and discussion of Will Alexander's recently published poetry collection, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten
Advancing Racial Justice and Health Equity through Housing and Homeless Services
November 9, 2021
A virtual discussion examining how homelessness contributes to race/ethnic health care disparities and the effectiveness of supportive housing in reducing those disparities.
Book Talk with Dr. Vanessa Holden (PhD '12), Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community
November 11, 2021
An in-person book talk with Vanessa M. Holden about her book Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community
Sarah Cervenak’s Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life
November 15, 2021
A book talk and discussion of Sarah Cervenak’s Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
November 19, 2021
A book talk by Claire Jean Kim, professor of political science and Asian American Studies at UC-Irvine
October 2021
Race B4 Race: Region and Enmity Interdisciplinary Symposium
October 19, 2021
An interdisciplinary symposium focused on how early modern racial discourses are tied to cartographical markers and ambitions.
The Writing Laboratory
October 21, 2021
A Writing Laboratory virtual workshop
Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness
October 26, 2021
A talk about this multi-format project exploring how Africana studies scholarship, arts, and activism inform global, intersectional struggles against anti-blackness.
Occasions for Gathering Presents: Generative Writing Workshop with Randall Horton
October 27, 2021
Imagining new formats for the presentation of challenging, interdisciplinary literary work that engages questions of racial reckoning.
Occasions for Gathering Presents: Randall Horton and Krista Franklin
October 27, 2021
Imagining new formats for the presentation of challenging, interdisciplinary literary work that engages questions of racial reckoning.
Scarlet Scholars: Race, Climate, and the Communal Imagination
October 28, 2021
Professor Patrick Rosal’s lecture, "Race, Climate, and the Communal Imagination," addressed how poetry prepared him to think about racial justice in the context of community and place.
September 2021
The Launch of ISGRJ at Rutgers-Newark
September 23, 2021
A collaboration of ISGRJ and the Rutgers iTV studio, this 2-hour launch event, which was webcast on September 23, 2021, serves as a virtual "showcase for the breadth and depth of racial justice work at Rutgers and the transformational impact—both local and global—that it’s having." —Professor Elise Boddie, Institute Campus Director at Rutgers University–Newark.
Register to view the video here.
The March2RUGardens
September 25, 2021
The first project of the Arts Integration Research (AIR) Collaborative, the March to Rutgers Gardens was a choreographed walking intervention acknowledging the desire for safe and inclusive access to nature for the diverse constituents of Rutgers–New Brunswick and its surrounding communities. On September 25, 2021, 500 participants joined a two-mile walk from the Cook-Douglass campus to Rutgers Gardens, a 180-acre resource currently accessible only by car.