CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF STRENGTH IN SOLIDARITY |
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CCSRE eNEWSLETTER | MARCH 8, 2022 |
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CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow Adamu Chan, Inside and Out
How a Formerly Incarcerated Filmmaker Breaks Through “Tyrannies of Silence”
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BY ALEX SANCHEZ BRESSLER
March 4, 2022
Adamu Chan is a documentary filmmaker, writer, community organizer and 2022 CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow. He was incarcerated at San Quentin during the initial 2020 peak of the COVID-19 outbreak. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Chan’s imperative is to “maintain a collective memory of the people, places, and experiences…that are under threat of disappearing” due to gentrification and racialized incarceration in places like Berkeley and Oakland. Read the full story here.
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ARTS + JUSTICE
Migration, Media Arts, and Latinx Subjectivities
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March 11 | 12:30P-2P PT
Speakers: Josh Rios (School of Art Institute at Chicago) and the Cog•nate Collective
Moderator: Alex Mejía
Networks of research and art practice oriented toward transgressing disciplinary boundaries and constituting communal subjectivities in Latinx communities are dynamic sites of critical sonic practices. Focusing on such communal practices, this conversation brings together scholar and media artist Josh Rios and the Cog•nate Collective, a collaboration between Missael Diaz and Amy Sanchez Arteaga.
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PUBLISHING WORKSHOP | SUMMER 2022
Applications open now through April 15
The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity is collaborating with the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop to offer up to two scholarships for the summer 2022 program. The LARB virtual workshop runs from June 20 to July 22, 2022. CCSRE scholarships cover the full cost of tuition for Stanford graduate students who work on race.
Interested parties should apply directly through the LARB Publishing Workshop portal and name their institution as Stanford CCSRE. Currently enrolled Stanford graduate students are eligible to apply with preference given to those who participate in CCSRE's intellectual community.
See the website for more information about the workshop and the link to apply. Please contact CCSRE Interim Associate Director Annie Atura Bushnell for inquiries .
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Thursday, April 21 | 12p - 1:30p PST
CCSRE Conference Room | BLDG 360
Please RSVP below for the luncheon at 11:30a
"Siting Surveillance: Place, Deportation Threat, and Institutional Involvement among U.S. Latinos" examines whether and how the siting of surveillance—place-based variation in the monitoring and sanctioning of subordinated populations—is associated with individuals’ rates of institutional involvement across place.
SPEAKER: Asad L. Asad is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
DISCUSSANT: Jayashri Srikantiah (Stanford Law School) is Associate Dean of Clinical Education, Director of the Mills Legal Clinic, Professor of Law, and Director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic.
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CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow Việt Lê shares life/career journey in Người Việt
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The life journey of 2022 CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow Việt Lê was featured on the front page of Người Việt newspaper.
In an Instagram post from March 7, 2022, Lê writes that the story, written by Trà Nhiên, includes "an interview on my life as a young boat refugee who almost drowned at sea; refugees and wars then and now; my anti-model minority journey (as a high school and college decolonial dropout); and my creative and critical projects on the ethics of return and healing; the afterlives trauma and militarized modernities."
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SAVE THE DATES FOR SPRING '22 |
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Film Screening: IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME
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March 9 | 1:30P-3P PST
Join IDA for a virtual film screening and talk with writer/director Walter Thompson-Hernandez. IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME, his first short film, won the Short Film Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival 2022. The film highlights a toxic jet fuel dump episode in Southeast Los Angeles to subtly call attention to environmental racism, as well as being a commentary on life itself, and the ability to attempt to fly and pursue our dreams. Learn more about the film screening here.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Chicana Lesbians:
Re-Engaging the Iconic Text "The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About"
Abstracts due March 15, 2022
Full articles due June 15, 2022
For inquiries, contact Brenda Meza, editorial assistant at the Journal of Lesbian Studies. |
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April 29 & 30, 2022 | Various Times
Mexican Heritage Theater
1700 Alum Rock Ave | San Jose, CA
A show you won't want to miss! Opera Cultura presents the Northern California premiere of the bilingual opera Frida by Mexican-American composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez. The highly-regarded opera, which incorporates music from Mexican folk traditions, tells the dramatic story of the life of Frida Kahlo - one of the most visionary and iconic artists of the twentieth century.
Please note, this event requires ticket purchase.
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We invite news and stories written by and about our CCSRE community—including from faculty, students, staff, alumni, and on and off campus partners—as well as race-centered events to feature in our eNewsletter.
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