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Dan Berger Presents the Washington Prison History Project

Dan Berger, professor at University of Washington—Bothell, is co-curator of the Washington Prison History Project, a multimedia archive about prison activism in Washington state. In this conversation with Prof. NDB Connolly, Berger will explain the origins of this archival project and describe how it provides a public accounting of the human magnitude of mass incarceration in the Northwest region as part of understanding its effects across the nation. The project emphasizes currently and formerly incarcerated people, who are rarely considered as political actors or constituencies.

A Taste of Black Freedom

The Center for Africana Studies is pleased to host “A Taste of Black Freedom,” our 2022-23 symposium that explores the history, politics, and knowledges of black foodways in Baltimore, with local chefs, activists, restauranteurs, and scholars. The symposium also features the exhibit, Black Foodways: A Culinary Diaspora, which will be on the main level of Eisenhower […]

Poster for My Way with sepia-toned soldiers walking side-by-side

RIC Film Series: My Way (S. Korea, 2011)

Please join us for the initial screening in RIC's inaugural film series, running through the Spring 2023 semester. Each screening will feature a brief introduction by RIC kinfolk. In World War II-era Korea, rival runners, one Korean (Jang Dong-gun) and one Japanese (Joe Odagiri), go to war together against the Soviets. Starring Jang Dong-gun, Joe Odagiri, and Bingbing Fan. Introduced by Prof. Tarak Barkawi, JHU Political Science

RIC Career Workshop: Academic Publishing

On Friday, Feb. 17, RIC will hold a workshop about careers in academic publishing featuring Kate Marshall, Senior Editor, University of California Press.

RIC Career Workshop: University Libraries

On Tuesday, February 21, RIC will hold a workshop focusing on post-PhD career opportunities in libraries featuring Heather Furnas and Monica Blair from the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University.

RIC Film Series: Calls From Home, featuring Q+A with director Sylvia Ryerson

An intimate portrait of rural prison expansion, Calls From Home documents WMMT-FM’s longstanding radio show that sends familial messages of love over public airwaves to reach people incarcerated in Central Appalachia.

Directed by Sylvia Ryerson, a former DJ for the show, the film portrays the many forms of distance that rural prison building creates—and the ceaseless search to end this system of racialized mass incarceration and family separation.

Racial Profiling and the China Initiative: Challenges Facing Academics of Chinese Descent and Those Who Collaborate with Scientists in China

Collaborating with academics in China was once encouraged by the US government and universities. As tension between the two countries rises rapidly, those who do collaborate are under heightened scrutiny by the U.S. federal government. This talk will examine the DOJ’s unfair targeting of academics of Chinese descent and those who collaborate with scientists in China.

American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation

The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship are pleased to welcome Professor Roberto Saba (History, Wesleyan University) for a conversation about his recent book, American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation.

Turkey-Syria Earthquake: A teach-in

The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship at Johns Hopkins University presents a panel discussion on the Turkey-Syria Earthquake, featuring scholars and community organizers from the region. Since February 6, 2023, there has been widespread destruction and loss of life across Southeastern Turkey and Syria. One month on, this panel will discuss the political and […]

A 1981 Chosŏn Ilbo article titled: “The Color of Their Skin May Be Different but They Are Still Korean.” The grainy black and white photograph depicts nine mixed race Korean adults in a gathering in the city of Pusan.

The “Mixed Blood” Problem in Cold War South Korea

The post Korean War era observed the presence of numerous US military bases. Mixed race Korean children of these decades were often stigmatized as the children of military sex workers and straddled the legal and social borders of citizenship between an ethnic nationalist Korea and a rising superpower that was America. This talk explores mixed and non-mixed Korean narratives of the cold war era and reflect a postwar Korean society that grappled with concepts of citizenship, belonging, and responsibility.

Image of Black protesters with banner and signs marching in the street (from Mangrove film)

RIC Film Series: Mangrove (Small Axe)

Join the third event in the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship's spring 2023 film series "Global Views on Racism and Resistance," a screening of Steve McQueen's 2020 film Mangrove, in his Small Axe collection.