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CCSRE eNEWSLETTER | NOVEMBER 10, 2021 |
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LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR
CCSRE AFFILIATED FACULTY
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November 10, 2021
The Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity at Stanford University supports research about race by our faculty members. We deplore the unfair online harassment that some colleagues have suffered as a result of talking about their research in a public forum. In particular, we condemn the paid advertisements on social media that have targeted and harassed our colleague Hakeem Jefferson for his valuable work on the role racial identity plays in structuring political attitudes and behaviors in the U.S.
-CCSRE LEADERSHIP TEAM
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ARTIST TALK
Reaching Towards Warmer Suns
A conversation with Kiyan Williams (CSRE '13)
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Join us as we welcome artist and CSRE alum Kiyan Williams ('13) in conversation with A-lan Holt (CSRE '11), Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, as they discuss Kiyan's work and the role of artists as makers, thinkers and scholars. This event will be held at the Anderson Collection LIVE and IN PERSON.
Please note, registration is required and does not guarantee you a seat. Please arrive early as space will be limited to 50 people. Doors open at 5:00pm. This event is open to Stanford affiliates only; Stanford ID required.
Pictured above is Williams during the installation of Reaching Towards Warmers Suns, 2019, a public work on view on the grounds of the Anderson Collection.
This event is presented by the Anderson Collection in collaboration with the Institute for Diversity in the Arts and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity.
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CCSRE Partners on Racial Equity & Justice
Seed Grant Program
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From the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research and Research Development Office
The Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research (VPDoR) and the Research Development Office (RDO) are pleased to launch their Research on Racial Equity and Justice (RREJ) Seed Grant program.
The seed grant program provides awards of $10k-$50k each to help Stanford researchers position themselves well for larger, extramural funding opportunities, for example by supporting the formation of partnerships or establishing feasibility*. Complete, stand-alone research projects that are otherwise hard to fund may also be considered.
This program is open to Pi-eligible Stanford faculty from all disciplines and aims to increase research in the area of racial equity and justice, broadly defined. This includes studies of environmental justice, systemic and epistemic racism, and many other topics. In addition to being the main project, the proposed racial equity and justice research can also constitute an expansion of another project to include a racial equity and justice component.
Up to $250,000 in funds will be awarded from VPDoR.
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New grantees funded by the VPDoR RREJ program will have the opportunity to join this larger community of racial equity scholars, engage in grantee meetings, roundtables, and research symposia. Grantees will also have opportunities to share their research to the broader CCSRE community through research talks, webinars, and social media.
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
2022 CCSRE Mellon Arts Practitioner Fellowship
Due November 29, 2021
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2022 CCSRE MELLON ARTS FELLOWSHIP
The Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity at Stanford University invites artists and arts practitioners who live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area to apply to be a 2022 Mellon Arts Practitioner Fellow. Eligible candidates include visual and performing artists, media makers, musicians, writers, curators, and art educators whose work focuses on race and/or ethnicity.
The Arts Practitioner Fellowship Program is part of the Centering Race Consortium, a multi-university collaboration funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Fellows will have opportunities to engage with both the Stanford community and other artists and collaborators in the Consortium.
Fellowship Details
- Fellows receive
- a $20,000 stipend for a 12-month fellowship from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022;
- a community of fellow artists, scholars, and practitioners;
- opportunities to participate in CCSRE programming over the course of the fellowship period.
- Fellows will be required to be on campus for a two-day orientation on January 19-20, 2022 and commit to regular monthly meetings on campus.
- Two fellowships will be awarded for 2022.
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A FORTRESS IN BROOKLYN:
RACE, REAL ESTATE, AND THE MAKING
OF HASIDIC WILLIAMSBURG
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Wednesday, November 10 | 5p PT
Rimon Lounge | Hillel Building
Join Jewish Studies for a conversation about race, religion, and real estate in Brooklyn with Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor & Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and co-author of A Fortress in Brooklyn.
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YouTube: FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWS CHAUTAUQUA
Tragedy in Postcolonial Literature
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"Before listening to Ato Quayson’s impressive lecture on 'Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature,' I thought I knew just about everything that mattered about the concept of tragedy. Boy, was I wrong! Professor Quayson’s lecture not only added to our standard understanding of tragedy...he added new dimensions to it. Professor Quayson requires us to think about tragedy in relation to postcolonial thinkers and activists like W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Ngūgī wa Thiong’o and others. The range of his connections showed his deep scholarly knowledge and the exciting nature of his teaching."
-Ramón Saldívar, Professor of English and
Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences
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Ato Quayson argues that in postcolonial literature tragedy reveals itself as an ongoing process. |
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Tragedy in Postcolonial Literature
While you're there, please subscribe.
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YouTube: IMAGINING JUSTICE LECTURE SERIES
American Indian Tribal Laws of Criminal Responsibility
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"Our justice systems were based on walking together with the person, they were based on interlocking responsibilities...it's about taking responsibility for what you've done and in the process you have to give and you have to receive because many of our prayers and many of our languages have as part of them something loosely translated as 'Please help us because we are only humans.' And that is realizing where we are in the world. We are not the top of the food chain."
-Abby Abinanti, Chief Judge, Yurok Tribe
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Professor Reese is a nationally recognized expert on tribal law and federal Indian law. |
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American Indian Tribal Laws of Criminal Responsibility
Elizabeth Reese (Stanford Law) and Abby Abinanti (Chief Judge, Yurok Tribe) engage in a timely and candid dialogue about the ways tribal laws are embedded within complex histories and disrupt U.S. paradigms of criminal justice. Watch the discussion on YouTube.
While you're there, please subscribe to CCSRE's channel.
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DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM
The Historical Formation of Race
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
3:30 - 5:30PM PST
In this virtual presentation, Linda Alcoff (CUNY) will argue that race is best understood not as a social construction, at least as this is usually understood, but as a historical formation. Because they are historical formations, Alcoff contends, racial identities are thoroughly social, contextual, variegated internally, and dynamic: for these reasons, the substance of racial identities is best understood as local. LEARN MORE
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STANFORD AMERICAN INDIAN ORGANIZATION
Native American Heritage Month Events
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AMERICAN INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL 46
Screening of Inhabitants
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Thursday, November 11 | 5:00P PST
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, the Stanford Environmental and Climate History Workshop in partnership with the Native American Cultural Center will co-host a virtual screening of Inhabitants, a film showing as part of the “Our Land is Sacred” Session of the American Indian Film Festival 46.
A discussion of the film and the broader topics of Indigenous environmental knowledges, environmental justice, and climate change will follow the showing.
streaming instructions will be sent to registrants prior to the event.
ABOUT INHABITANTS
For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain traditional land management practices. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. As the climate crisis escalates these time-tested practices of North America's original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world. Inhabitants is co-directed by Costa Boutsikaris and Anna Palmer.
For more information about the Stanford Environmental and Climate History Workshop contact Paul Nauert at nauert@stanford.edu.
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AS SOON AS IMPOSSIBLE
DIRECTED BY CCSRE FACULTY AFFILIATE
SAMER AL-SABER (TAPS)
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NOV 11-13 + 18-20
HARRY J. ELAM, JR. THEATER
STANFORD UNIVERSITY MAIN CAMPUS
A NEW PLAY BY BETTY SHAMIEH
DIRECTED BY CCSRE FACULTY AFFILIATE
SAMER AL-SABER (TAPS)
As Soon As Impossible explores the relationship between two older men, Ramsey and Arthur, an Iraqi-American and a WASP. Their annual summer fishing trip is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of Ramsey’s granddaughter, Layla, who claims to be on the run. With Arthur’s suspicions raised, Ramsey may get more than he bargained for when he begins to plan Arthur a surprise birthday party. A play about friendship in a time of war.
Starring KAL NAGA (aka KHALED ABOL NAGA) as Ramsey, MARGARITA BELLE JAMERO as Layla, RUSH REHM as Arthur, and MORGAN GWILYM TSO as Drew
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ART EXHIBITION
THE LIGHT THAT SHINES THROUGH THE CRACKS
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OPENING NIGHT: Friday, December 3 | 6-9PM PST
La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
This art exhibition reflects on the act of collective care within nearly two years of unprecedented challenges both locally and globally.
Curated by Cece Carpio and featuring seven BIPOC artists and activists from various backgrounds and mediums, the exhibition will explore visual displays of mutual aid that artists have enacted and created throughout the Bay Area.
Artworks will range from traditional abstraction and figuration, to spiritual expressionism, muralism, sacred practices, and grassroots activism.
La Peña Cultural Center is responding to the weight of these times of crisis with a celebratory lens, putting the magic of togetherness in the spotlight and offering inspiring representations of solidarity, care, and support that local communities have carried out as a path towards social transformation. Let's gather and celebrate the power of community!
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