Scholarship on racial politics in Japan has tended to take a dichotomous view of Japan as either a culturally homogenous, racially exceptional society where racism does not exist or a perniciously racist one. This talk examines how racism and antiracism have interactively shaped modern Japan’s political development, focusing on national and international coalitions, social movements, empire, and postwar liberal democracy.
Join the fourth event in the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship’s spring 2023 film series “Global Views on Racism and Resistance,” a screening of Icíar Bollaín’s 2010 film Even the Rain. The film will be introduced by Sheharyar Imran (PhD Candidate in Political Science) Even the Rain follows Mexican director Sebastián and a group of […]
Over the past half-century, historically white universities have experimented with diversifying their student and faculty bodies within the U. S. Supreme Court’s increasingly narrow definition of affirmative action. In Summer 2023, the Court ended altogether the diversity regime it created. Now, universities must ask: what comes next?
Join us for brief presentations and a reception with food and drink to kick off this year’s programming, featuring RIC director Dr. N. D. B. Connolly, RIC graduate fellow Sheharyar Imran, and RIC undergraduate fellow Natalie Wang.
What are reparative arts? How we might chart a way forward in alleviating systemic harms and injustices by creating living monuments through staging, performance, and other ways of memorialization?
Please join the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship for a conversation about community-engaged learning, research, and internships for undergraduate students. Speakers will emphasize their own experiences with community-engaged learning, how it has shaped their intellectual development, and why it has been crucial to their educational experience.
Over the past three years, research teams funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and composed of leading experts have been excavating how academic departments in the medical sciences, social sciences, and humanities at Johns Hopkins University both created racist forms of knowledge and expertise and were reshaped by anti-racist and desegregation struggles in the twentieth century.
Join us for a symposium that will mark the first public presentation of the findings of these research teams.
The Greek Chamber Music Project (GCMP) presents Uproot, a powerful program of Greek songs from Asia Minor. GCMP performs modern arrangements of Greek music from the region, celebrating this vibrant musical heritage and capturing the refugee experience through song. Uproot weaves histories and personal stories throughout, generating a universal dialogue about the impact of forced migration and building a bridge to the experience of modern-day refugees.
Please join this workshop on career pathways in criminal-justice reform to hear from two recent JHU graduates whose work focuses on research, policy analysis, and education.
The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Johns Hopkins University present a discussion of the recently published volume The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics (Pluto).
All Hopkins graduate students interested in a conversation with Mohamed Amjahid about racism, immigration, LGBTQ communities in Europe, North Africa, and the United States are welcome to join.
As a freelance investigative journalist, Mohamed Amjahid regularly covers topics such as racism and police violence in Germany, the upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa as well as far-right and "anti-woke" politics in the US and their global impact.
Please join the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship for a panel discussion about the contemporary landscape of diasporic and immigrant-rights organizing at the new Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC. This event is part of a soft launch for a new undergraduate program at Hopkins called Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS)
This graduate workshop will focus on critical methodologies for conducting doctoral research on a range of topics that center issues of racism, colonialism and empire, and capitalist political economy. The workshop will feature input on student projects and general advice on conducting ethically informed and critically oriented research by anthropologist Kareem Rabie.
