2016-2017

View our past Speaker Series events and past co-sponsored events

Past Speaker Series Events

Blind Man Can See It: Film Blackness and Contemporary Cinema

Michael Gillespie
Professor of Film, The City College of New York
Wednesday, April 19, 2017; 2:00pm
Oak Room, IMU

The River is Us; The River is in Our Veins: Re-defining River Restoration in three Indigenous Communities

Nicholas Reo
Native American & Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College
Thursday, March 9, 2017; 4:00pm
Walnut Room, IMU

Doing America from Outsider-Within: Language Brokers Navigating Racial and Class Inequality

Hyeyoung Kwon
Sociology Department, Indiana University
CRRES Postdoctoral Scholar
Tuesday, February 7, 2017; 12:30pm
Walnut Room, IMU

Bifurcated Incorporation and the Skilling and De-Skilling of Migrants in Japan

Tristan Ivory
Sociology Department, Indiana University
CRRES Postdoctoral Scholar
Tuesday, January 17, 2017; 12:30pm
Walnut Room, IMU

From 'Different' to 'Similar': An Experimental Approach to Understanding Assimilation

Ariela Schachter
Sociology Department, Washington University in St. Louis
Thursday, November 10, 2016; 4:00pm
Persimmon Room, IMU

A Book of Flowers

Ross Gay
Creative Writing Program, Indiana University
Monday, October 17, 2016; 4:00pm
Bridgewaters Lounge, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center

The Cold War Origins of International Adoption

Arissa Oh
History Department, Boston College
Thursday, October 6, 2016; 4:00pm
Persimmon Room, IMU

Past Sponsored Events

Movement: Asian/Pacific America film series at IU Cinema

Presented by Asian Culture Center and Asian American Studies Program
Monday April 3, 2017; 7:00pm
Emerging Asian Pacific American Voices: Director Andrew Ahn
Monday, April 10, 2017; 7:00 pm
Painted Nails

Rising Up: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, & SIKH Communities in Post 9/11 America

Presented by Asian American Studies
Deepa Iyer
Monday, February 20, 2017
7:00-8:30 pm Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union

Dr. Janie Cole

"Soiled by Black Lips': Music, Resistance, Race, and Incarceration in Apartheid South Africa
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
4:00-5:00 pm Ford-Crawford Hall
IU's Institute for Advanced Study Spring 2017 Branigin Lecture

John J. Valadez - The Head of Joaquin Murrieta

Friday, September 9, 2016
Brown Bag Talk
12:00 pm La Casa
Film Screening
3:00 pm IU Cinema

A Symposium on Race and Education

Friday, September 16, 2016
10:00 am – 6:00 pm Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union

10:00 am Dr. Douglas Downey, Ohio State University
11:00 am Dr. Karolyn Tyson, University of North Carolina
2:00 pm Dr. Ruth Lopez-Turley, Rice University
3:00 pm Dr. Natasha Warikoo, Harvard University
4:00 pm Panel discussion and reception

Juan Felipe Herrera

Friday, September 30, 2016
Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 7:30 pm