The first Ritual of Remembrance, co-organized by RIC Postdoctoral Fellow Jasmine Blanks Jones and Inheritance Baltimore Community Arts Fellow Jeneanne Collins, received excellent media coverage.
Media Coverage of Ritual of Remembrance
News Archive
Ritual of Remembrance Announced for 1/21
Join us for the first Ritual of Remembrance, January 21, 2022, outside the Homewood Museum. This community gathering will highlight new research findings about the enslaved people who lived on the site of the Homewood campus and honor the legacy of Black labor in building the institutions of today.
Baltimore Arts & Activism Panel Announced (Nov. 11th)
RIC is thrilled to announce another panel discussion building on its semester-long theme of Black-Asian solidarities. Titled "Art, Power, Politics: Bridging Divides in Baltimore City," the discussion will feature three local Baltimore artist-activists. It will take place in Hodson Hall 210 on Thursday, November 11, 5pm to 6:30pm.
Pier Larson’s papers granted to Northwestern University
The papers of renowned African scholar Pier Larson, who died in 2020 as professor in the Department of History, have been gifted to the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African […]
Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence Fall Speaker Series Announced
Co-sponsored by RIC and the SNF Agora Institute, Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV) is a new initiative that is hosting a series of talks and panels this fall. Among the speakers are Kandice Chuh on October 27 and Dylan Rodriguez on December 1. All talks will take place on Wednesdays, from 4pm to 6pm.
RIC Graduate Symposium Announced: “Entanglements and Solidarities”
The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship at JHU is thrilled to announce its inaugural Graduate Student Symposium, to be held on Monday, December 6, 2021. The theme for this first symposium is Entanglements and Solidarities.
2021 Living Hopkins Roundtable Announced
The Living Hopkins 2021 Roundtable will focus on Black-Asian Solidarities: Confronting Anti-Black and Anti-Asian Racism. It will take place on November 4, 5-6:30 p.m., in Hodson 210. The roundtable will […]
RIC–Public Books Collaboration Launched
RIC is pleased to launch its new collaborative publishing initiative with Public Books, “Freedom Education,” featuring long-form interviews with leading intellectuals, conducted by JHU PhD students. In October 2020, in […]
Statement on Anti-Asian Violence and the Killing of Asian Women in Atlanta
The Program in East Asian Studies, the Program in Racism, Immigration and Citizenship, and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality mourn the victims of the Atlanta mass shooting, which targeted Asian-run massage parlors and resulted in the deaths of 8 people, 6 of whom are women of Asian descent. With grief...
RIC, Institutional Partners Win $4.4 Million Mellon Grant
The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship, in conjunction with the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts and the Sheridan Libraries, has been awarded a Just Futures grant from the […]