CCSRE eNEWSLETTER | SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 |
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WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR |
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I am so proud to be taking over as Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity as it moves into its second quarter century. Without a doubt, CCSRE has been at the core of my intellectual formation; I arrived at Stanford as a first-year Assistant Professor in 1996 which, fatefully for me, was the first year CCSRE came into existence. Since then, I have participated in so many of the different activities sponsored by the Center, including leading the Undergraduate Program and Directing the Research Institute, that I can hardly imagine my life at Stanford, or my scholarship, without it. Even as I have moved through the ranks, CCSRE has grown into a university-wide research and teaching center with over 150 affiliated faculty from 28 departments and 6 schools. It offers undergraduate degrees in Asian American, Chicana/o/x-Latino/a/x, Native American, Jewish, and Comparative Race Studies; a Ph.D. Minor; 200+ courses; and multiple student fellowships. We have become a leader in research, publication, training, policy engagement and public education on diverse topics including art, criminal justice, artificial intelligence, race and inequality. As a participant and leader of CCSRE, I am proud of our successes, and I celebrate them!
And yet we find ourselves, in 2021, in a rapidly changing and difficult world. We face challenges ranging from increasing economic inequality to an overdue racial reckoning and what appears to be irreversible climate change. As we move forward, understanding how race and ethnicity stem from and exacerbate these problems remains key to our attempts to solve them. I look forward to working with CCSRE’s talented faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students as we collectively confront our demanding and exciting future.
Paula M. L. Moya
Faculty Director of CCSRE
Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of the Humanities
Professor, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
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CALIFORNIA INDIAN LECTURE SERIES
Indigenizing California History
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SPEAKER
Olivia Chilcote
(Luiseno, San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians)
Assistant Professor of
American Indian Studies at
San Diego State University
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MODERATOR
Tanner Allread
(citizen of the
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
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SPEAKER
William Bauer
(citizen of the Round Valley
Indian Tribes)
Professor of History and Program Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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ZOOM ID 921 5701 9311
PASSWORD 180513
This event is open to Stanford Affiliates.
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Undergrads join local high school students for an uncommon learning experience |
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Faculty Affiliate Jonathan Rosa (GSE) builds on the ethnic studies course established by CCSRE as a model for community engaged learning with local high schools.
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By Carrie Spector | August 4, 2021
Students at Sequoia High School in Redwood City, Calif., are joining Stanford undergrads in an uncommon learning experience from the Stanford course catalog: an ethnic studies class that brings students and teachers from both campuses together to learn from each other.
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The course – Introduction to Latinx Studies, led by Stanford Associate Professor Jonathan Rosa – stands out for its unusual approach. Co-facilitated by five teachers from the high school, the course fully integrates the Stanford and Sequoia participants’ experience, building a world of knowledge that goes beyond the boundaries of campus. Read the full story here.
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Stanford announces IDEAL Provostial Fellows |
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BY CHRIS BLISS | Mar 15, 2021
Stanford Provost Persis Drell today announced the first cohort of IDEAL Provostial Fellows. Five early-career scholars in the study of race and ethnicity will join the Stanford campus community for three years beginning in fall 2021 as part of an effort to increase the university’s research and teaching related to race and ethnicity.
The five scholars are: Catherine Duarte, epidemiology; Kelly Nguyen, classics; Eujin Park, educational policy studies; Michaela Simmons, sociology; and Jordan Starck, psychology.
As part of their IDEAL fellowships, the scholars will be assigned to the schools and departments corresponding to the fields of their doctorate, and they will teach one course per year while they expand on their research.
The objective of the IDEAL Provostial Fellows program is to increase the amount of research and teaching related to race and ethnicity at the university. Much of this work currently takes place in Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. One of the larger goals for the IDEAL Fellows program is to develop a pipeline for diversifying the national professoriate. LEARN MORE HERE.
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Taube Center for Jewish Studies Presents
CAMPUS CONVERSATIONS
"The Conflict in Israel/Palestine"
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OCTOBER 4, 2021 | 5PM PT
Join us for an important conversation about the intersections of antisemitism and antizionism--and the question of whether such an intersection exists at all. Two renowned scholars discuss these questions in light of the ongoing conflicts in Israel/Palestine and the debates that have emerged on campuses like Stanford and across the country.
Join Professors Lila Corwin-Berman (Temple University) and Tony Michels (Univ. of Wisconsin) for a conversation moderated by Stanford's Professor Steven J. Zipperstein.
All undergraduates are invited to join the speakers for dinner in the faculty club following the conversation.
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TECHNOLOGY AND RACIAL EQUITY INITIATIVE
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
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REACHING TOWARDS WARMER SUNS (2020)
Public Exhibition at Anderson Collection
On View Through December 5, 2021
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By Aimee Shapiro and Perlita Dicochea
July 20, 2021
Kiyan Williams (CSRE '3) is a visual artist and writer from Newark, NJ who works fluidly across performance, sculpture, video, and 2D realms. Rooted in a process-driven practice, they are attracted to quotidian, unconventional materials and methods that evoke the historical, political, and ecological forces that shape individual and collective bodies.
Kiyan Williams’ Reaching Towards Warmer Suns, is a public work on view on the grounds of the Anderson Collection, among a grove of oak trees.
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Photos of Reaching Towards Warmer Suns, 2020,
by Andrew Brodhead. The pieces form concentric circles.
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The piece was originally installed along the banks of the Powhatan River (James River) in Richmond, Virginia, where some of the first enslaved Black people touched land in the new/ruined world. The work is made of soil from the river and emerged from artist and Stanford CSRE alum Kiyan Williams’ (photographed to the left) time along the slave docks of Virginia within the context of the pandemic and protests against on-going anti-Black police violence. Williams explained how the sculpture arose from a need to mark the paths of slavery as sacred, and “memorialize on-going struggles of self-determination for Black people.”
Watch Notes on Digging, a video of the artist speaking about Reaching Towards Warmer Suns here.
Listen to an audio guide that accompanied this piece when it was installed at Socrates Sculpture Park here.
Listen to the artist’s video of poet Lucille Clifton reciting her poetry among the backdrop of Reaching Towards Warmer Suns here.
Listen to Kiyan Williams share more about their experience creating this piece during CCSRE's 25th Anniversary event in June 2021 here.
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NEWS & EVENTS OF INTEREST |
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SAY THEIR NAMES - NO MORE NAMES |
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Open to the general public through September 30, 2021 |
Say Their Names – No More Names is an online and in-person exhibit that highlights Black Americans who have been killed or impacted by police brutality and systemic racism. The exhibit, co-curated by Stanford Librarians Felicia Smith and Kris Kasianovitz, originated in direct response to the global Black Lives Matter movement.
The physical exhibition in Green Library includes names affixed to glass panels in the Bing Wing as well as banners throughout the first floor that contain the names and faces of the featured victims.
The online exhibit displays the images and individual stories of victims, including Emmett Till, Kalief Browder, Salecia Johnson and Bettie Jones; it also calls attention to events like the Tulsa riots, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and the Chicago Police Department Midnight Crew.
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Have news or events to share? |
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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 and blog.
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CCSRE is now on INSTAGRAM |
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