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?
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?
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.
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.
This workshop examines the methodological choices we make as academics interested in inequality. From how we define the objects we choose for analysis, to how we frame the populations we are working with, to the ways we think about consent and personal relationships in the field.
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.
Please join the Chloe Center for a special workshop led by editors at two popular publications that frequently publish work by academics, n+1 and Inquest. This workshop will cover some of the basics as well as the nuances of making the transition from scholarly writing to reaching a public audience.
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, & Colonialism is pleased to sponsor a free screening of the documentary film Power by Yance Ford (2024) at Red Emma's. After the screening, Yance Ford and Chloe Center director Stuart Schrader, who was a consulting producer on the film, will hold a Q+A, moderated by Steph Saxton.
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, & Colonialism is co-sponsoring a "talkback" panel discussion about Passage with the actors and director Annalisa Dias. Christopher Chen’s Passage asks about the possibility of friendship in a world distorted by power and dominance. When one country has colonized another, when one group has taken for granted its social and economic superiority, can anyone, the colonizer or the colonized, find a path toward better human relations?
Please join us at the Inheritance Baltimore and the Struggle for Just Futures: Cultural Work as Reparations November 14-16.
This roundtable at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting will convene representatives from colleges and universities (including Goucher College, University of Baltimore, Towson University, Bowie State University, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University) that offer college-level courses to students in Maryland state prisons.
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to sponsor a free screening of the new documentary UNION, about the Amazon Labor Union, on Tuesday, November 19, at 7pm to 9pm in Maryland 110. After the screening, there will be a brief panel discussion featuring Johns Hopkins alumni who have worked as union organizers, speaking about their experiences and inviting current students to get involved in the labor movement.