CCSRE Events & Announcements

Faculty Seminar Series

April 27 | 12-1:30pm

Building 360, Conference Room

Fatoumata Seck "From the Caribbean to Africa: Race and Gender in the work of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain"


Moderated by Professor Usha Iyer (Art & Art History)


Professor Seck will discuss the work of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Haiti’s first woman anthropologist, her training in Europe as a linguist and anthropologist, and her linguistic work in the Congo and the African continent.

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April 28 | 10-11am

Virtual

CCSRE Honors Info Session


Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 Honors Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Come to our info session on 4/28!

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Call for Proposals

2023-2024 CCSRE Mellon Arts

Fellowship Program


Artists who live and work in California

are invited to apply


Deadline: April 30, 2023

Submit a Proposal

May 11 | 5-6:30pm

A3C Couchroom

Book talk with Shelley Lee


Stanford Alum and author of Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race and the "American Dream". Light dinner provided with RSVP!

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Co-sponsored Events

April 26 | 5-6:30pm

Encina Commons, 123

Michael Twitty | Kosher Soul - The Faith and Food Journey of an African-American Jew


Twitty, recipient of the 2022 National Jewish Book Award, is this year’s Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund Lecturer and will share his experiences of being Black and Jewish and his food journey.


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April 27 | 5:30-7pm

Memorial Church

30th Annual St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture


Robin D.G. Kelley | "Black Studies Against Facism: Then and Now"


Hosted by the African and African American Studies Program


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Book Signing

3:30-4:30pm | Memorial Church

Books will be available for purchase from Stanford Bookstore

May 1 | 5:30-7pm

Building 120, McClatchy Hall, Main Quad, Mendenhall A and B

Reading and Q&A with Ava Chin


Chin, author of the new book Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming, traces her family bi-coastal history following the hardships of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.


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May 2 | 12-1:15pm

Wallenberg Hall, Room 433A

Know Systemic Racism: Was the police killing of Oscar Grant justified? How do we change the question?


Presentation of data-driven, public humanities interactive project of Oscar Grant’s life and other stories, guided by the principle of humanizing the harm of systemic racism.


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May 5 | 12pm

A3C Couchroom

Race, Religion, and Asian American Studies


What can attention to religion tell us about race and Asian American Studies? Please join us for a book panel featuring Kathryn Gin Lum, Melissa Borja, and Jonathan Tran on their recent publications in the field.

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May 9 | 12-1:30pm

Encina Commons 123

Kareem Khubchandani | Divas, Drag Queens, Aunties, and Other Academic Personas


Tracing his trajectory across intellectual projects on queer Indian nightlife to drag performance to the figure of the aunty in South Asian public culture, Khubchandani explores the relationship between research, teaching, and artistry.


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Around Stanford

April 26 | 4:30-6:20pm

Building 380, Room 380c (basement)

H. Samy Alim, Casey Philip Wong, Jeff Chang | Freedom Moves: Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures


Sponsored by the Institute for Diversity in the Arts


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April 27 | 1pm

Hybrid - Disability Community Space (DisCo: on the 1st floor of the student services building at 563 Salvatierra Walk)

Race and Disabilities in Academia


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April 28 | 12-1pm

Encina Commons 123

Ronald Grigor Suny | The Persistence of the Past: How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affect Our Politics Today


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April 28 | 12:30pm

Encina Commons 123

Emiliana Cruz Cruz | Linguistic Co-responsibility Between Indigenous Peoples and the Mexican State: There is a Stretch Between What is Said and What is Done


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April 28 | 3-4:30pm

Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room

Eve Oishi and Alexandra Juhasz | Queer Asian American Cinema and the Elsewhere of Utopian Sexuality


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May 1 | 4:30-6pm

Braun Music Center, Room 103

Roshanak Khesti |

Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology


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May 1 | 5:30-7:30pm

Hybrid - Green Library, Bing Wing, 5th floor, Bender Room

Ato Quayson | Suffering and Tragedy from the Greeks to Toni Morrison


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May 2 | 6:30-8pm

Location provided with RSVP

Ladan Lari & Leila Pourhashemi | Never Invisible: An Iranian Woman’s Life Across the Twentieth Century


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May 3 | 4:30-7pm

Hybrid - Memorial Auditorium (551 Jane Stanford Way)

Cubberley Lecture Series presents: Joyous and Just Learning for All


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May 4 | 4:30-6pm

History Building Room 307

Program in History & Philosophy of Science hosts Edward Jones-Imhotep, University of Toronto, The Black Androids: History and the Technological Underground


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News

CCSRE Research Institute Director Alfredo Artiles elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences


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CCSRE Affiliated Faculty Tom Mullaney interview: "For high school and college students, online instruction can open a door to archival research"


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Activism for Muwekma Ohlone’s federal recognition continues


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