Join the Digital Scholarship Group, the Women Writers Project, and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks in our celebration of Douglass Day, an event honoring the life and birthday of Frederick Douglass. At this event, we will transcribe the records of the Colored Conventions, the nineteenth century’s longest campaign for Black civil rights.

Mary Gryctko, Visiting Scholar, will present a talk on her work-in-progress followed by a Q&A. She will focus on young sex workers in Victorian England and the ways in which reformers who framed them as "children" worked to take away their agency, and to frame all sex work as non-consensual "trafficking."

Open Classroom | Power to the People: Community Voices in Urban Decision-Making

The Spring 2022 Open Classroom will explore a variety of community-centered research initiatives grounded in racial and social justice values and a commitment to working with community members as co-equals. This week's session is titled "The Power & Peril of University Community Engagement: An Ethical Framework" and includes speakers Lisa Laguerre, Associate Director of Community Relations for the Institute on Race and Justice, and Sam Vaghar, Executive Director of the Millennium Campus Network.

The second event in the Complete American Neighborhood series will look at San Jose, and how its neighborhoods and leaders are building a new livability around Silicon Valley’s global innovation powerhouse. S‍peakers include Theodore Landsmark, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.

Mehmet Elgin is a visiting Fulbright scholar in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. In the Ethics Institute Speaker Series, visiting scholars will share their research with faculty and students alike. Intended to help build a stronger community of scholars, this series will de-mystify the research process by sharing works-in-progress.

Vanessa R. Panfil, author and Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University, will speak on her recent book, The Gang's All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members. Panfil will illustrate how gay gang members construct and negotiate both masculine and gay identities through crime and gang membership.

Faculty Works-in-Progress | Reckonings Fellowship 2021–22

Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research with colleagues, field questions, and foster discussion. This week's presenters are Kara Swanson,

Professor of Law, Affiliate Professor of History and Associate Dean for Research and Interdisciplinary Education; Libby Adler, Professor of Law and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Jordon Bosse, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing; and Allison Chapin, PhD Candidate, History.

This year's Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week begins with speaker Jeffrey Veidlinger from the University of Michigan.