2021-2022

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

Past Speaker Series Events

Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification

Dr. Mike Amezcua
Department of History
Georgetown University
April 21, 2022; 4:00pm

From Civil Rights to Model Cities: How Black and Brown Angelenos Shaped Federal Policy

Dr. Casey Nichols
Department of History
Texas State University
April 13, 2022; 4:00pm

Christian Fatigue and Black Visions of Freedom: Rethinking the Future of Black Religion in the Age of Black Lives Matter

Dr. Joseph Tucker Edmonds
Department of Religious Studies
Indiana University-Purdue University
April 6, 2022; 4:00pm

Place Making Practices in the Ethnic Beauty Salons

Dr. Soulit Chacko
Department of Sociology
Indiana University-Purdue University
March 24, 2022; 4:00pm

The Possibilities of Teaching with Kindness

Dr. Catherine Denial
Director of the Bright Institute
Chair of American History
Knox College
February 24, 2022; 4:30pm

Identity and its Appeals in American Politics

Dr. Chinbo Chong
CRRES Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Political Science
Indiana University
September 16, 2021; 4:00pm

Thinking, Feeling, Creating with Photography: Widening the Lens of Visual Research in Education

Dr. Vivek Vellanki
CRRES Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
School of Education
Indiana University
October 21, 2021; 4:00pm

Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth's Political Activism under the Law

Dr. Kevin Escudero
Department of American Studies
Brown University
November 11, 2021; 4:00pm

Past Co-Sponsored Events

The Bloomington Symposia

April 28-30, 2022

Land, Wealth, Liberation: the Making & Unmaking of Black Wealth in the USA

March 24, 2022

Bans & Burnings: A Panel Discussion Examining the Attacks on Public Education

March 10, 2022

Cathy Park Hong

March 10, 2022

Challenges and Opportunities for Surveying Asian Americans and Latinos in the Social Sciences

Chinbo Chong
February 25, 2022

Untold Stories of the Conservation Movement: Race, Power, and Privilege

Dorceta Taylor
February 25, 2022

On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women into the Early Modern Archive

Jennifer L. Morgan
November 4, 2021

Courage, Commitment & Change: Environmental Justice through Literature” with authors Imbolo Mbue and IU alum Kiese Laymon

Moderated by Dr. Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde
October 27, 2021

The Joy of Congee: A Conversation on Food and Activism

Alice Wong and Sandy Ho
September 30, 2021