Book Talk with Takeo Rivera | Model Minority Masochism

You’ve heard the phrase “model minority” a thousand times. Come hear Boston University professor and playwright Takeo Rivera (CSRE ’08, MTL MA ’09) explain how the model minority has shaped today’s contradictory meanings of what it means to be Asian American.

18th Annual Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Lecture

"Speaking for an Other"

featuring Pulitzer Prize winner

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

Student Luncheon

Come meet renowned novelist and public intellectual, Viet Thanh Nguyen! Lunch is included with RSVP; open to all Stanford undergraduate and graduate students.

Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh| Left-Handed Medicine: Black Women, Religion, and Revenge in Slavery

Winner of the first book prize for the Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora

Contentious Curriculum: Presents, Pasts, and Possible Futures of an Enduring American Culture War

How might conflicts surrounding slavery, racial hierarchy, homosexuality, and transgender identities be usefully incorporated into health, civics, history, mathematics, and literature classes across the U.S.? Research Institute Director Alfredo Artiles and other GSE faculty explore our responsibility to reflect on these topics.

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Kenji Yoshino | Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice

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Doris Moromisato | Asia - Latin America Reading Group

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Gabriella Safran & Ariel Mayse | REWIND: JEWISH HORROR--The Dybbuk & Tikkun

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John Alba Cutler | “Swans, Dogs, and the ‘Overrepresentation of Man’ in Latinx Modernism” | Generaciones Reading Group

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The Future of Social Tech: Nurturing Skills and Markets for Social Impact Innovation

featuring keynote speaker YOSHIKI

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Sci Fi/HBO Writer Nnedi Okorafor in conversation with Ellen Sebastian Chang

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The Future of Education Research at the Institute of Education Sciences

IES committee member Professor Alfredo Artiles notes that the newly-released report "re-frames the vision and agenda for education research in the U.S. in critical ways, including with an explicit attention to equity."

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