Contextualized Formations of Black Identity
speakers:
Professor Daniel Perlstein, Education
Professor Na’ilah Suad Nasir, African American Studies / Education
The Brooklyn, New York based civil rights activist Sonny Carson once noted that the schoolhouses he attended were like prisons, and that the prisons themselves were posing as schoolhouses—metal bars ran down the windows of both. Various authors such as playwright George Bernard Shaw, sociologist Michel Foucault, and even the band Pink Floyd have drawn similar comparisons between institutions of learning and institutions of incarceration.
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Interacial Verbal Interactions & Intra-Race Policing
speakers:
Molly Babel, Linguistics
Trevor Gardner, Sociology
Why do people who interact with one another end up sounding similar to each other as well? For scholars of linguistics, such a deceptively simple observation unfolds into a theoretically rich examination of cognitive, physiological, and psycho-social mechanisms that may illuminate the very basis of human thought and behavior.
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CRG Pacific Islands Studies Working Group
speakers:
Pacific Islands Studies Research Working Group
The Pacific Islands Studies Research Working Group aims to promote greater awareness and understanding of the Pacific Islands Regions and Pacific Islands communities in the U.S. diaspora. This research group is a response to the invisibility of discourse on Pacific Islands communities on this campus, and works in collaboration with other social movements on campus and around the U.S.
Rethinking Reconciliation After Mass Violence
speakers:
Professor Harvey Weinstein, Public Health and The Human Rights Center
Professor Katharya Um, Ethnic Studies
Thirty years ago, the brief, but brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge ended. Between 1975-1979, upwards of two million Cambodians would lose their lives as a direct result of the regime’s violent and radical program of social upheaval.
Karl Britto is a joint appointed professor in the French and Comparative Literature departments, and is an affiliated faculty member of the CRG.