Calendar of Events
2009
October 2009
October 8, 2009
Bryant Terry, "Redefining Soul Food: Politics and Pleasures of Food and Eating in the Black Communities"
7 pm Annenberg Auditorium
Bryant Terry is an eco chef, food justice activist, and author. For the past nine years he has used cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections between poverty, structural racism and food insecurity.
Sponsored by The Ethics of Food and the Environment and African & African American Studies.
October 15, 2009
Majors Night
6:00 - 8:00pm
Building 460, Terrace Room
Please RSVP at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=mp8yQsbU6atJcICtDm5PuA_3d_3d
October 24, 2009
Looking Forward: African and African American Studies 40th Anniversary Gala
2:00-5:00pm, Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Street
Reunion/Homecoming weekend
2:00-3:00pm Classes Without Quizzes: "Black to the Future: The Pleasures & Perils of race in the Post-Race Era" a short lecture by Professor Michele Elam, MLK Jr. Centennial Professor, Director of AAAS, followed by a panel of current students and alumni.
3:00-5:00pm Interactive Open House with Champange and Hor D' Oeuvres. This is a dynamic opportunity to experience the vibrancy of African and African American Studies at Stanford today. Visit our five hands-on stations.
October 29, 2009
Faculty Race Network "Race & Environment"
Dinner and Presentation with The First Nations Futures Program
7:00-9:00pm, Spalti's
Please RSVP to LaSundra Flournoy at lflourno@stanford.edu by October 20th
The First Nations Futures Program, is an organization dedicated to international Native land stewardship, sovereignty, and leadership which has a relationship with the Woods Institute. This is a joint collaboration with the Research Institute at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (RICSRE) and the Woods Institute through the Race Forward Initiative. The discussion of Race and Environment will open with reflections on Maori and Hawaiian cultural worldviews by:
Sir Tipene O`Regan, Assistant Vice Chancellor University of Canterbury
Dr. Jonathan Kamakawiwo`ole Osorio, Professor University of Hawaii-Manoa
Mr. Neil J. Kaho`okele Hannahs, Director Land Assets Division Kamehameha School
November, 2009
November 5, 2009
Faculty Race Network "Race & Environment"
Dinner and Presentation with Jennifer Eberhardt, Associate Professor of Psychology and Courtney Bonam, PhD student in Psychology
6:00-8:00pm, Spalti's
If you're interested in attending please contact Michele Elam at melam@stanford.edu
Polluting Black Space
Black Americans are overrepresented among those exposed to industrial pollution in the U.S. Using experimental social psychological methods, we examine whether individual-level racial bias in deciding where to build noxious facilities could be one factor contributing to this
phenomenon. This is a joint collaboration with the Research Institute at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (RICSRE) and the Woods Institute through the Race Forward Initiative.
November 9, 2009
Selwyn R. Cudjoe, "The Challenge of Caribbean Literature: V.S. Naipaul and A.R.F. Webber"
Margaret Jacks Hall Building 460 - Terrace Room (Rm. 426)
12:00 noon-1:15p.m.
A light lunch will be served.
RSVPs are welcomed (lflourno@stanford.edu)
Selwyn R. Cudjoe, professor and chairman of Africana Studies, Wellesley College, has also taught at Harvard, Cornell, Brown, Ohio and Fordham universities. He has been a recipient of several National Endowment for the Humanities Awards and an American Council of Learned Society Fellowship. He was also the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College and a Senior Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University.
Professor Cudjoe is the Author of Several books including Resistance and Caribbean Literature (1980); V.S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading (1988); and Beyond Boundaries: The intellectual Tradition of Trinidad and Tabago in the Nineteenth Century (2003) and Caribbean Visionary: A.R.F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation Intellectual Legacies (1995) and Eric E. Williams Speaks: Essays on Colonialism and Independence (1993). He has also written for several publications including the New York Times; the Washington Post; Boston Globe, Harvard Educational Review; International Herald Tribune; New Left Review; Baltimore Sun the Amsterdam News. He was also a columnist for the Trinidad Guardian and the Trinidad Express.
Professor Cudjoe has lectured at several universities and colleges in the United States, Canada, England, France, south Pacific, Puerto Rico, Guyana and the Caribbean. He is a director of Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and a member of a Cabinet-appointed Round Table Discussion on Race Relations.
2008
October 6 - November 10
AAAS12/CCSRE 12. Presidential Politics: Race, Class, Faith, and Gender
First meeting. This course explores the complexity of identity, including issues of race, class, faith and gender as they shape the candidates, campaigns and society. Bryant Terry is an eco chef, food justice activist, and author. For the past nine years he has used cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections between poverty, structural racism and food insecurity.
Sponsored by The Ethics of Food and the Environment and African & African American Studies (see http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethics-events/food-environments/ or http://www.stanford.edu/dept/AAAS
October 31-December 14
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
by August Wilson
Berkeley Repetory Theater
The play
"Renowned actor Delroy Lindo returns to Berkeley Rep with the play that netted him a nomination for the Tony Award—but this time, he’s in the director’s chair. Following last year’s triumph with Tanya Barfield’s Blue Door, Lindo takes on August Wilson’s African-American epic, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Haunted by seven years on a chain gang, Herald Loomis appears in Pittsburgh to reunite his family. Surrounded by the vibrant tenants of a black boarding house, he fights for his soul and his song in the dawning days of a century without slavery."
November 2008
November 12, 2008
Open House
3:30-5pm Building 360
Students are invited to learn more about the Program in African and African American Studies and other undergraduate programs offered in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE).
November 18, 2008
Malcolm X and his Relationship to Global Islam and Third World
Liberation
Dr. Manning Marable, Director, Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Professor of History, Columbia University
Co-Sponsored with Muslim Student Awareness Network
November 19, 2008
Race & Faith Faculty Salon
4-5:30 pm Kahillah Hall, Koret Pavillion (at the Ziff Center for Jewish Life)
Race and Faith in the Once-Naked Public Square
University Chaplain, Dean Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann
Thirty years ago, Richard John Neuhaus decried the "naked public square". Today, people of faith seek to clothe that public square in distinctly religious clothing. Pastors are endorsing candidates from the pulpit in order to challenge to their free speech rights. The separation of church and state is under attack. How do we understand the role of faith in our politics in this campaign season and in our discourse? Is there a place for any and all religious voices in our politics? What is the place also for discussions of race in the public square? how have discourses of race and faith intersected at particular moments in this presidential campaign--for instance, from Rick Warren's mega-church Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency? to the New Yorker cover featuring Obama as Osama?
The Race & Faith Salon is open to all faculty. Please RSVP to Cheryl Richardson (c.richardson@stanford.edu).
December 2008
December 4, 2008
Race, Law & Inequality : Craig Futterman
4:15-6 Room 280A Stanford Law School
December 11, 2008
Kieve Distinguished Lecture: Melissa Harris Lacewell (Open to faculty and graduate students)
Pecola's Politics: Black Women and Shame
Noon-1:30
RSVP to Chris Queen cnqueen@stanford.edu
We wish you success with finals and a Happy Kwanzaa.
January 2009
January 16, 2009
Diaspora Table: Rhonda Goodman "The Visual Culture of Slave Auctions in Nineteenth Century North America"
Building 360 Conference Room
Noon-1
January 15, 2009
Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebrations
Noon - 1pm
The Common Room in the CIRCLE
3rd Floor Old Union
"Practice What You Preach: Social Justice in the Church and Academe"Join us for a conversation between a theologian and an academician who will speak on how Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and commitment to social change and racial justice can be realized not only in a house of God but also in the halls of academe. Come learn how both the church and university are sites for change.
Professor Albert M. Camarillo
Professor of History and
Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professor in Public Service
Special Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Diversity
Department of History
Stanford University
Reverend Billy Kyles
Pastor of Monumental Baptist Church, Memphis, Tennessee
Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad, Clinton Administration
Eyewitness to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sponsored by:
The Program in African and African American Studies
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Intstitute
The Catholic Community at Stanford
3-5:30pm Education for Global Liberation
Tressider Oak Lounge
The King Research and Education Institute presents a program of photography, research, and the Call to Consciousness Awards.
January 21, 2009
AAAS Inaugural Art Gallery Opening
Building 360 Suite 362
4-5pm
AAAS is proud to present the work of Ré Phillips and Courtney Crisp, two Stanford University students. Both women use oil and canvas to evoke deeply felt emotion. The Stanford community is invited to see their work and talk to the artists.
January 27, 2009
Diaspora Table: Tiffany Brannon "Say it Loud...I'm Black and American and Proud: African American Biculuralism"
Building 360 Conference Room
Noon-1
January 27, 2009
Center for African Studies Distinguished Lecture: Militarism and Feminism in Africa
Levinthal Hall, Humanities Center
4:30pm
The lecture will address the central role of militarism in the history of nation-statehood in specified African contexts, developing a feminist analysis of colonial rule, military rule, and democratic transitions, and explores the role of womens movements in the ongoing struggles for peace and democratization.
Dr. Amina Mama holds the first Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership at Mills College, Oakland. She came to the Bay Area from the University of Cape Town, South Africa where she was the first Chair in Gender Studies at the African Gender Institute. She is a founding editor of the first continental gender studies journal, Feminist Africa, established in 2002 (available online at www.feministafrica.org). Amina Mama has devoted many years working on development issues, policy advocacy, women's movement activism, and research in various African countries.
Reception to follow.
February 2009
February 4, 2009
Rokia Traoré
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
8:00 pm
Renowned singer unites the traditional instruments and rhythms of her native Mali with influences ranging from jazz and pop to European classical music.
February 10, 2009
Diaspora Table: Aida Mbowa "Sounding Black Sadness: Music and the Melancholy of Race "
Building 360 Conference Room
Noon-1
February 12, 2009
Building 360, Conference Room
6:00 pm
Come, learn about the various majors, including AAAS, offered through the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Dinner will be served.
February 15, 2009
Kresge Auditorium
6:00-8:00pm
Sheryl Lee Ralf and Devin T. Robinson X call us to continue to remember the deep impact of HIV/AIDS on the Black Community. AAAS joined Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and the NAACP Stanford Chapter to support this program.
February 17, 2009
Building 360, Conference Room
Noon
Catch up with other CCSRE students and faculty and engage in the intellectual discussion:
"If/When is it Okay to Laugh" a discussion facilitated by Doctoral Candidate in the Humanities and Drama Matthew Daube. Lunch served. RSVP here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=5rZVrllKD9nd0grYqFFFZA_3d_3d
February 19, 2009
Meet the Artist: Singer/Songwriter, Stew
Piggott Theater
12-1pm
Tony Award-winning singer/songwriter, Stew, performs his songs and talks with the audience.
February 19, 2009
Taube Hillel House - Kehillal Room
7-9pm
Stanford Alumna and co-founder of African Ancestry, Gina Paige, will provide impetus for a discussion about ancestry and self-definition. This event is sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and supported by Bechtel International Center, The Billie Achilles Fund, AAAS, the NAACP, and ASSU Speakers Bureau.
February 20, 2009
Stop Raping Our Greatest Resource- Power to Women and Girls of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Conversation with Dr. Dennis Mukwege and Eve Ensler
Cubberly Auditorium
12-1:15 pm, with Q&A
Among other issues, t heir conversation will explore the causes of brutality against Congolese women, ways to stop the ongoing femicide, and Congo's growing movement of women leaders.
February 23, 2009
Race & Faith Faculty Salon: Faith and Education (Open to Faculty)
Professor Prudence Carter
4-5:30 pm
Location TBA
February 24, 2009
Diaspora Table: Nia Witherspoon on Black Queer Studies
Building 360 Conference Room
Noon-1
February 24, 2009
Race & Law with Bryan Stevenson
Law School, Room 95
4pm
Mr. Stevenson represents death row prisoners and the poor where the person has been unconstitutionally convicted or sentenced. RSVP today (cnqueen@stanford.edu).
February 25, 2009
Real Talk: Professor Sharon P. Holland
February 27, 2009
Esperanza Spalding
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
8:00 pm
Enjoy this jazz bassist and vocalist, who, at age 20, became the youngest faculty member in the history of Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music
Spring 2009
ON-GOING EVENTS FOR SPRING QUARTER
April 1 , 2009 - June 3, 2009
Race and Faith Lunch and Lecture Series
Noon-1pm
The unprecedented lecture and lunch series for 2009 will include weekly lectures by internationally renowned scholars from various disciplines, all discussing the intersections of race and faith. Each week, a distinguished scholar will explore the complexities of race and faith and their manifestation in artistic expression, culture, history, language, literature, music, politics, religion and society among different groups of people in the US and globally. This year, the course will culminate with a special lecture: the St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture. The course is available for credit (1-3 units), and both the course and St. Clair Drake lecture are open to the public.
April 6 , 2009 - May 31, 2009
Jews of Color: In Color!
Art-Exhibit
Koret Pavilion at the Ziff Center (565 Mayfield Avenue)
This photo exhibition shares with us the practices of isolated Jewish communities around the world, including Ghana, Zimbabwe, India, and Mexico.
April 2009
April 3 & 4, 2009
Subversive Classics: Politically subversive appropriations of Mediterranean antiquity
Quad Building 110 (April 3)
Stanford Humanities Center (April 4)
The Subversive Classics Conference will bring together noted scholars to discuss radical topics such as: Latin leads to
everything: the people and subversion; why Renaissance Humanists were not classical scholars; and anti-colonial classics. The conference will meet on Friday and Saturday, April 3 and 4. Please join us.
Friday's session will feature Alastair Blanshard, Sean Gurd, Françoise Waquet, and Michael Wyatt. The event will be held from 2:15 - 7:00 pm in Building 110, Main Quad, Room 111-O.
Saturday's session will feature Anthony Grafton, Emily Greenwood, Andrew Laird, Peter Pormann, Patrice Rankine, Gonda Van Steen, and a round table discussion with Miriam Leonard, Phiroze Vasunia, Caroline Winterer and Clare Woods. The talks on Saturday will be given from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm in the Leveinthal Room of The Humanities Center here on campus.
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April 6 , 2009
A Conversation with Donna Brazile
"100 Days...100 Years: Obama's Report Card and Black America"
Kresge Auditorium
6pm
The Stanford NAACP hosts a conversation with CNN political commentator and former campaign manager to Presidential Candidate Al Gore, Donna Brazile. In the event, titled “100 Days...100 Years: Obama's Report Card and Black America,” Brazile will speak on the opening months of the Obama Administration, the transformation of politics and the implications for African American communities. The event is free with SUID and also free to students of any surrounding schools with proper identification.
April 9, 2009
"'The storm that was rising to engulf us all': Freedom and Existence in James Baldwin's Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"CCSRE Conference Room
Quad Building 360
Noon-1pm
April 23, 2009
Diaspora Table: Jennifer Tamas
"Guadeloupe in 2009, a French colony, or an integrated French region?"CCSRE Conference Room
Quad Building 360
Noon-1pm
April 29, 2009
Religious Studies Distinguished Lecture: Charles H. Long
"Stories, Temporalities and Meanings: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and other Mystic Stories"
Margaret Jacks Hall, Building 460
1:15-3pm
May 2009
May 5 , 2009
Jews of Color: In Color! Presentation
Koret Pavillion at the Ziff Center
7:30pm
Join us for a presentation by the President of the Organization Scattered Among the Nations..
May 11, 2009
White Women in Black Britain
France Winddance Twine
CCSRE Conference Room
Quad Building 360
1pm
This talk draws upon interviews and field research conducted over a 10 year period among white and black members of 65 British interracial families in England. In this talk, Twine examines the strategies employed by white members of interracial families as they learn to name, recognize, decode and translate the multiple meanings of race and racism. Synthesizing the concerns of US Black critical race feminists with those of British feminists, Twine examines the ways that black and white members of these families make sense of 'race' in their everyday lives. This research sits at the intersections of Black British cultural studies and US sociological studies of race.
May 18 , 2009
Luke Harris and George Lipsitz on Race Conscisous Legal Cases & Public Policy
BCSC Lounge
5pm
Dinner Included
Co-Sponsored by Black Pre-Law Society and the Black Community Services Center
May 21 , 2009
Diaspora Table: Courtney Bonam
Race and Environment
CCSRE Conference Room
Quad Building 360
Noon-1pm
May 21 and 22, 2009
Directed by Doug Jones
BCSC Deck
6pm
The Amen Corner, the first dramatic play by the much-celebrated African-American novelist, essayist, and playwright James Baldwin. The Amen Corner addresses themes of the role of the church in the African-American family, the complex relationship between religion and earthly love, and the effect of a poverty born of racial prejudice on the African-American community.
June 2009
June 3 , 2009
St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture: Charles Ogletree
"Dr. St. Clair Drake's Narrative Dialogue with Barack Hussein Obama: Traveling the Road from Cambridge to Kenya and Back!"
Bechtel Conference Center at Encina Hall
Noon-1pm
June 4 , 2009
Diaspora Table: Daniel Stringer
Race and Education
CCSRE Conference Room
Quad Building 360
Noon-1pm
June 4 , 2009
Race and Faith Faculty Salon (Faculty Only)
New Guinea Grove
4-5:30pm
June 14 , 2009
AAAS Diploma and Awards Banquet
Henry and Monique Brandon Family Community Room, BCSC
3:30pm
Also see our Race & Faith Calendar
