CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF STRENGTH IN SOLIDARITY |
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CCSRE eNEWSLETTER | NOVEMBER 2, 2021 |
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CCSRE Welcomes New Center Manager,
Amy Potemski
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BY CCSRE STAFF | November 1, 2021
Amy Potemski is the new Center Manager at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. As Center Manager, she is responsible for overseeing the budget, appointing lecturers, and supporting the mission of both the research institute and academic programs. Potemski has worked at Stanford University since 2017, and prior to her time at CCSRE she worked for the Diversity and Access Office, as well as in student services for three IDPs – American Studies, Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Modern Thought and Literature. In these roles, Potemski enjoyed advising and engaging with diverse cohorts, including many first-generation students.
Potemski recently graduated from New York University with a Masters of Arts in Sociology of Education, where she studied intersections of identity and belonging in higher education. Before her time at Stanford, Potemski worked for a decade in education policy research, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Texas Christian University (’04) and a Master’s of Public Policy from George Washington University (’06).
"We're delighted to have Amy join our CCSRE team. I was fortunate to work with her in supporting students in FGSS, American Studies, and MTL. I know she will thrive in this new leadership role as Center Manager," Director Paula Moya said.
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Faculty Research Fellows Chautauqua
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November 4, 2021 | 4PM - 5:30PM PDT
Join us on November 4th for our autumn quarter Faculty Research Fellows Chautauqua. This book salon will feature 2021-2022 fellow Ato Quayson focusing on his newly published Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature. Ato Quayson is the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English at Stanford. Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. Key themes addressed by Quayson include the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature.
Branislav Jakovljević (TAPS) will join Quayson as discussant. Jakovljević's most recent monograph in English is Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia 1945-1991 (University of Michigan Press, 2016) which received the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theater for 2016-17, among others. Jakovljević co-translated and edited Radomir Konstantinović’s book The Philosophy of Parochialism, a groundbreaking analysis of the relation of the national literature and the formation of totalitarian ideas in a small European nation during the first half of the 20th century (forthcoming from University Michigan Press in the fall of 2021).
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IMAGINING JUSTICE
American Indian Tribal Laws of Criminal Responsibility
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NOVEMBER 5, 2021 | 12PM - 1:30PM PT (VIRTUAL)
Elizabeth A. Reese, Yunpoví (Tewa: Willow Flower) is a scholar of American Indian tribal law, federal Indian law, and constitutional law focusing on the intersection of identity, race, citizenship, and government structure. Her scholarship examines the way government structures, citizen identity, and the history that is taught in schools, can impact the rights and powers of oppressed racial minorities within American law.
Professor Reese is a nationally recognized expert on tribal law and federal Indian law and frequent media commentator on developments within the doctrine, particularly at the U.S. Supreme Court. Her scholarship on tribal law, constitutional law, popular sovereignty, and voting rights law has been published in Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, and Houston Law Review.
Previously, Professor Reese worked at the National Congress of American Indians where she supported tribal governments across the country as they implemented expanded criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians under the 2013 Violence Against Women Act.
Abby Abinanti, Yurok Chief Judge, is an enrolled Yurok Tribal member, she holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of New Mexico School of Law, and was the first California tribal woman to be admitted to the State Bar of California. She was a State Judicial Officer (Commissioner) for the San Francisco Superior Court for over 17 years assigned to the Unified Family Court (Family/Dependency/Delinquency). She retired from the Superior Court in September 2011 and on July 31, 2014 was reappointed as a part-time Commissioner for San Francisco assigned to Dependency, and Duty Judge for that Court where she served until 2015. She has been a Yurok Tribal Court Judge since 1997 and was appointed Chief Tribal Court Judge in 2007, a position she held in conjunction with her Superior Court assignment until 2015.
This event is Co-Sponsored by Stanford Arts Institute, Native American Studies, the Center for Criminal Justice, and the Stanford Faculty Women's Forum.
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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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AVAILABLE ON YouTube
Assimilation: An Alternative History
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"Catherine Ramírez's presentation was full of new ideas and very engaging. I am now thinking about assimilation very differently. And the lively and informative conversation with Tomás Jiménez was a great feature of the seminar. It reaffirmed for me why we must have humanists and social scientists talking to each other and why the CCSRE faculty seminars are the place where this can and should happen."
-Hazel Markus, Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Psychology
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Catherine Ramírez defines assimilation as a paradox. |
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FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES
Watch the Faculty Seminar held on October 28, 2021 and featuring Catherine Ramírez (UCSC), author of Assimilation: An Alternative History, now on CCSRE's YouTube channel.
While you're there, please subscribe to our channel.
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CCSRE Faculty Affiliate Anne Charity Hudley (GSE) is featured for her expertise on language, identity and race in this recent New York Times story about current debates.
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This story was first published in the New York Times. Read excerpts below.
Americans have always wrestled with language when it comes to describing race, with phrases and vocabulary changing to meet the struggles and values of the moment. But especially in the wake of protests for social justice in the summer of 2020, there is a heightened attention to this language, say scholars and activists, as some on the left try to advance changes in the culture through words.
Changing Language, Changing Views
Many of the words surfacing in today’s language debates are not new.
“Implicit bias” traces to the work of psychologists in the 1990s, when the field began to document the subconscious associations that cause people to harbor stereotypes. The effort to substitute “enslaved people” for “slaves” has been long advocated by many Black academics to emphasize the violence that defined American slavery and the humanity of those subjected to it, said Anne Charity Hudley, a linguist at Stanford.
But it is only recently, Dr. Hudley said, that “all these terms are swirling around more in the public consciousness.” Read the full story here.
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Technology + Racial Equity Practitioner Fellowships
Deadline: November 5, 2021
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The Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) are accepting applications for the 2022 Non-Resident Practitioner Fellowship.
We are seeking social sector leaders who are working on ideas or projects that advance the safe, ethical, and effective use of digital resources in civil society. These projects might include: designing tools to protect civil society actors and advance racial justice, developing policy frameworks to govern the use of data, prototyping tools that mitigate bias in emerging technologies, or agroecological approaches that promote African food sovereignty.
The fellowship is designed to provide time, space, expertise, and financial support, to help turn ideas into prototypes or actions. The fellows will be working together with their cohort to support and inspire one another and benefit from the access to an intellectual community of Stanford University.
The submission deadline is Friday, November 5, 2021 at 5:00pm PT.
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Are you interested in supporting Stanford's hub for education and research on racial equity??
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HOSTILE TERRAIN 94
Sponsored by the Undocumented Migration Project
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Hostile Terrain 94 is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project. The installation is composed of more than 3000 hand-written toe tags, each representing a migrant who has died trying to cross the US-Mexico border at the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019.
This installation takes place simultaneously at more than 100 institutions around the world and is presented by the Anderson Collection in collaboration with students and faculty from the department of Anthropology at Stanford University. LEARN MORE.
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EL CENTRO CHICANO Y LATINO PRESENTS
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
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UNTOLD STORIES OF THE CONSERVATION MOVEMENT: Race, Power, and Privilege |
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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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BLACK PANTHER PARTY PHOTO EXHIBITION
Presented by African & African American Studies
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INDIAN HEALTH CENTER PRESENTS
Indigenous Red Market
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 | 11a-4p
3124 International Blvd, Oakland
Join the Indian Health Center for indigenous foods, native crafts, native cultural performances, and native musical performances.
Indian Health Center will also unveil 31st Avenue as Waukazoo Way.
PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED. Please bring a photo of your vaccination card.
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