CCSRE Events & Announcements

April 13 | 3-4pm

Building 460, Room 426

Surveillance & Cities panel

Join us to discuss the impact of surveillance technology and community efforts to challenge these systems.

Open to the public

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Stanford Students - interested in attending a small-group coffee chat with panelists before the event?

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Faculty Seminar Series

April 20 | 12-1:30pm

Building 360, Conference Room

Wesley Leonard, University of California Riverside

'On Native American Language Reclamation'

Moderated by Professor Ramón Antonio Martínez (Education).

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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)

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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

Co-sponsored Events

April 13 | 5-6:30pm

Levinthal Hall

Caribbean Revelations:

Raelis Vasquez

Virtual dialogue on art practice, pedagogy, and building a career in the arts with Dominican artist Rails Vasquez.

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April 20 | 5-7pm

Levinthal Hall

Town Destroyer: Film screening and conversation with the filmmakers

Screening followed by Q & A with the filmmakers Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow.

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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

Around Stanford

April 12 | 5-6:30pm

Encina Commons, 123

Arfa Khanum | Understanding the Downslide of India’s Democracy, Declining Press Freedom, and Erosion of Minority Rights

Moderated by Anuradha Bhasin, Executive Editor of the Kashmir Times.

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Conference

April 13 | 9am-12pm

Virtual

Global AI: Reframing the Conversation

This event will showcase diverse perspectives on human-centered AI with a focus on decolonial values and the use of AI tools in tackling misinformation in global contexts.

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April 13 | 4-6pm

Hybrid - Levinthal Hall

What Difference Do We Make? Research at the Stanford Humanities Center

Annual showcase of Humanities Center fellows and their projects.

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April 17 | 5-7pm

Oshman Hall

Three Minutes: A Lengthening – Screening and conversation with the filmmakers

Directed by Bianca Stigter, the film captures a moment for a community before its decimation by the Shoah.

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April 18 | 12-1:30pm

CEMEX Auditorium

A Conversation with Colombian President Gustavo Petro

Moderator: Alberto Díaz-Cayeros (Freeman Spogli Institute)

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April 18 | 5:30-6:45pm

Levinthal Hall

Guaranteed Income in Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vision for Racial and Economic Justice

A conversation on Dr. King’s vision for economic justice with Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and Cambridge Mayor Symbol Siddiqui.

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News

A key architect of the new AAAS department will become its inaugural chair

Auto Quayson, a leading scholar of African

Postcolonial literature, will become the Chair of the new department when it officially launches in January 2024.

CCSRE Affiliate wins OAH Book Award

CCSRE Affiliated Faculty Kathryn Gin Lum (Religious Studies) won the 2023 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award for the best book in American intellectual history from the Organization of American Historians for her book "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP)

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