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.
Activist Amali Tower and climate scientist Patrick Brown will discuss how to respond to climate change and the rapacious character of capitalism's transformations of the planet.
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 […]
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.
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.
The JHU Foreign Affairs Symposium is pleased to announce a panel on workers' rights, featuring Chris Smalls. He will be joined by moderator Maximillian Alvarez (The Real News) and a representative from the JHU dining worker union, Unite Here, and a representative from the JHU graduate worker union, TRU-UE.
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.
