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CCSRE eNEWSLETTER | MARCH 23, 2022

FEATURE EVENT

THE SPIRAL WORD APRIL 14, 2022 | 7PM Levinthal Hall | Stanford Humanities Center Join us for the 17th Annual Anne & Loren Kieve Distinguished Lecture with renowned muralist Juana Alicia. Juana Alicia has been creating murals and working as a printmaker, sculptor, illustrator, and studio painter for over thirty years. Her style, akin to genres of contemporary Latin American literary movements, can be characterized as magical and social realism, and her work addresses issues of social justice, gender equality, environmental crisis and the power of resistance and revolution.

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CCSRE NEWS & EVENTS

2022 CCSRE KIEVE EVENTS

BLACKNESS IN ANTIQUITY

To truly see black people in ancient art we need to look beyond the historically recent trope of ‘Blackness = inferiority’ BY SARAH DERBEW (Classics), CCSRE FDI First published in Aeon | March 17, 2022 In 1968, Henry Owuor-Anyumba and Taban lo Liyong spearheaded an educational revolution at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Eager to sweep out the vestiges of British colonialism from the university’s English Department, they proposed abolishing it, to be replaced with ‘a Department of African Literature and Languages’. Read the full story here. A shard of pottery from a North Ionian amphora, 560-540 BCE. Courtesy the Trustees of the British Museum, London

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APRIL 7 | 5P PT #PublishingPaidMe made it impossible to ignore serious, enduring wage gaps between BIPOC and white writers. What do BIPOC writers entering the workforce need to know? Stanford’s Laura Goode will co-host this panel with poet and journalist Khalisa Rae, welcoming acclaimed authors Mikki Kendall and L.L. McKinney to offer practical advice and hard truths of making a living as a Black writer in a discriminatory industry. This event is presented by The Changing Human Experience and is part of a series on "What is a Public Intellectual Today?"

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ARTS + JUSTICE WORKSHOP SERIES Pleasure and Disability Justice: Genre, Form, and Praxis APRIL 14 | 4:30P PT Speakers: Petra Kuppers and Ellen Samuels Moderator: Roanne Kantor First 10 RSVPS will receive a complimentary book.

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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.

FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES 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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OTHER EVENTS

Racialization in Puerto Rico: Black (Her)stories and Unapologetic Marronage

Friday, April 15 | 3 PM PT Join the Hemispheric Racializations Working Group for a lecture with Dr. Bárbara Abadía-Rexach,  Assistant Professor of Afrolatinidades at the Latina/o Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies. RSVP HERE.

AROUND THE BAY

HANAME AT HAKONE GARDENS NIGHT VIEWING MARCH 23 - APRIL 15, 2022 Hakone Estate and Gardens | 21000 Big Basin Way | Saratoga, CA 95070 Hakone Estate and Gardens is delighted to share the beautiful cherry blossoms in the evenings. Haname at Hakone Night Viewing will be open weeknights only. Tickets are required for this event.

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