2017-2018

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

Past Speaker Series Events

Better Living Through the Humanities: Engaged Research, Public Scholarship, and Social Action Today

Marcia Chatelain
Department of History and African American Studies
Georgetown University
Thursday, April 19, 2018; 4:00pm
State Room East, Indiana Memorial Union
Reception to follow

How Families Matter: Exploring a Racialized Family Identity

Pamela Braboy Jackson
Department of Sociology
Indiana University
Thursday, March 29, 2018; 4:00pm
Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union

More than "Radicals" or "Junkies": Black and Latino Drug Addicts and the Pursuit of Psycho-Political Liberation

Sonia Song-Ha Lee
Department of American Studies
Indiana University
Thursday, February 22, 2018; 4:00pm
Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union

The River is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community

Elizabeth Hoover
Department of American Studies
Brown University
Tuesday, January 30, 2018; 4:00pm
Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union

Thoughts on Reconstruction, Imperialism, and the Unfortunate Case of Puerto Rico

Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Maurer School of Law
Indiana University
Thursday, December 7, 2017; 4:00pm
Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union

Cuing Disparities: Exploring the Antecedents and Consequences of Social Identity Threat

Dorainne Green
CRRES Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University
Thursday, November 9, 2017; 4:00pm
Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union

Urban Removal: Police, Prisons, and Domestic Policies after Civil Rights

Elizabeth Hinton
Department of History and African American Studies
Harvard University
Thursday, October 12, 2017; 4:00pm
Bridgwaters Lounge, Neal Marshall Black Culture Center

Reconciliation Projects: The Vexed Racial Politics of Genetic Ancestry Testing

Alondra Nelson
Dean of Social Science
Department of Sociology
Columbia University
President of Social Science Research Council
Thursday, September 14, 2017; 7:00pm
Grand Hall, Neal Marshall Black Culture Center

Past Sponsored Events

Rediscovering Our Roots: Afro-Latinidad

Zahira Kelly-Cabrera
Friday, March 2, 2018
Radio and TV Building, Room 251; 6:30pm

Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea

Dr. Hae Yeon Choo
Friday, February 2, 2018
School of Global & International Studies, Room 2067; 12:00-1:15pm

Millennials under Stress: The 2016 Presidential Election

Professor Alicia Suarez & Emily Meanwell
Sunday, November 12, 2017
School of Global & International Studies, Room 1100; 12:00-2:00pm

Islam in the American Public Sphere

Professor Moustafa Bayoumi
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Woodburn Hall, Room 104; 2:30-3:45pm
Hodge Hall, Room 2075; 5:30

Entrusting Myself to the Beauty & Danger of Life: Journeys of an Ethnographic Writer

CaMP Anthropology Speaker Series
Friday, November 3, 2017
GISB Auditorium
Reception to follow in GISB Atrium

Politics, Promises, and Possibilities

2017 Themester Symposium
Presented by Race, Migration, and Indigeneity
Friday, September 8, 2017
10-11:30 Main Symposium + Reception following
IMU Georgian Room

2:30-4:00pm Dr. Cynthia Bejarano
La Casa

3:00-4:00pm Dr. Maile Arvin
Asian Culture Center

3:00-4:00pm Dr. Gregorio Gonzalez
First Nations Educational and Cultural Center