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