Faculty Works-in-Progress | Revolutionizing the City: Black Youth and the Fight for Civil Rights in Boston

Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research with colleagues, field questions, and foster discussion. This week's presenter is Kabria

Baumgartner, Dean's Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies

Please join the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks for a panel on cutting-edge scholarship in the emerging field of the Digital Black Atlantic, featuring Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University; Kelly Baker Josephs, City University of New York; Kelsey Moore, doctoral candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University; and Roopika Risam, Salem State University. This event will be moderated by Nicole Aljoe, Professor of English and Africana Studies, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Distinguished Professor of English and Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks.

Sangay Mishra, Drew University, will speak at the fifth session of Asia America and the World. His work engages with political participation of South Asian immigrants in the United States as well as countries of origin with a particular focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

A prolific author, committed teacher, brilliant intellectual, and bold visionary, bell hooks left an indelible mark on generations of people including activists, artists, and scholars. This one-day symposium hosted by the Africana Studies Department will consist of three panels offering formal and informal reflections about hooks' profound and wide-ranging impact and will be led by Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies and Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice.

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."

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.

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