Foreign Affairs Symposium: Reaching for the Stars: Ellen Ochoa

Please join us on Thursday, March 14th when the Foreign Affairs Symposium—in partnership with OLÉ, the Center for Diversity & Inclusion, the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism, and the Maryland Space Grant Consortium—will host Ellen Ochoa from 7-8 PM in Shriver Hall.

“Revolution in Our Lifetime”: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968–1974, Exhibit Opening and Panel Discussion

“Revolution in Our Lifetime”: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968–1974 explores the founding, programs, and everyday activities of the Black Panther Party’s Baltimore chapter, as well as the party’s ideological foundations and state repression it experienced. The exhibit further examines the party’s links to other political organizations in the city within the broader context of political organizing in the period. The exhibit features rare artifacts, documents, and photographs, as well as copies of the party’s newspaper.

Critical Diaspora Studies and U.S. Empire in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia: A Symposium of Student Research

The DMV region is home to refugee and migrant communities from across the globe. It is also home to the centerpieces of the national security state, including CIA headquarters, the Pentagon, numerous military bases, as well as outposts of all the major firms that comprise the military-industrial complex, plus three of the military’s university-affiliated research centers. This symposium of original student research inquires into the connections between these two aspects of regional development, as well as how migrants and their families grapple with continuing forms of slow violence such as racialized displacement.

How the World Made the West

Bird in Hand 11 E 33rd St., Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Book talk with the author, Josephine Quinn. Josephine Quinn is Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University, and Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Worcester College, Oxford. She has degrees from Oxford and UC Berkeley, has taught in America, Italy and the UK, and co-directed the Tunisian-British archaeological excavations at Utica. She is […]

Great Imperial British Bakeoff: Sugar

Through this event, we come together to ask: How can something that seems as simple, scientific, and natural–a desire for sweetness–be influenced by systems like slavery, colonialism, capitalism?

Chloe Center Fall Kick-Off Reception

Please join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism as we host our Fall 2024 kick-off reception. Meet our kinfolk, including faculty board members and students, and celebrate an auspicious new semester as we prepare to launch our new major, Critical Diaspora Studies.

Graduate Methods Workshop: Histories and Geographies of Racial Capitalism

Please join us for a graduate methods workshop on historical and geographical approaches to studying racial capitalism, led by Prof. Peter Hudson, Associate Professor of Geography. The conversation will be wide-ranging, and students are encouraged to bring questions pertaining to their own related research topics.

Undergraduate Research in Critical Diaspora Studies

Student recipients of Summer Research Awards from the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism will briefly present on their research findings and discuss their research processes.