EVENTS

Past Events

March 26, 4:00 pm –  6:00 pm    

Join CSER on March 26, 2024 as we present the second speaker of our Spring 2024 Seminar Series, Dr. Sandy Grande of the University of Connecticut as she presents her talk, Corporis Nullius: Biopolitics and the Indigenous BioElsewhere’s of Aging. She is a Professor of Political Science and Native American & Indigenous Studies as well as the Director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative.

In her talk, Dr. Sandy Grande will undertake a (re)valuation of elderly bodies, particularly the oldest-old, or those labeled as “Fourth Age” adults. In so doing, she will build upon theorizations of Indigenous refusal as a political practice and methodological strategy that disrupts settler conceptualizations of citizenship, sovereignty, and biopolitics.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 4 – 6 PM
CSER Seminar Room, 420 Hamilton Hall

February 29, 4:10 pm –  5:30 pm    

Dr. Bryan Wagner’s talk examines a demotic tradition in African American music, folklore, and vaudeville comedy based on the jurisprudence of the police court. Looking to writers and performers ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to Dewey Markham, it finds in this tradition an alternative philosophy of law attuned to roles rather than rights, asymmetry rather than notional equality, and improvisation rather than reasoned restraint.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

4:10 – 5:30 PM

754 Schermerhorn Extension

February 26, 6:30 pm –  8:30 pm    

Join CSER for the Asian American Diasporic Writers Series on February 26th at 6:30 PM for the book launch of two exciting, new, brilliantly written AAPI memoirs that involve finding one’s place in the world: “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” and “I Would Meet You Anywhere.”

February 26, 12:00 pm –  2:00 pm    

Join CSER on Monday, February 26, 2024 for our Spring Open House. Stop by and learn how declaring the Ethnicity and Race Studies major or concentration works. Free food and light refreshments will be served.

February 24, 6:00 pm –  9:00 pm    

The CUAFA awards committee, chaired by Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, has selected Dr. Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, for the 2024 CUAFA Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, and Dr. Yuan Yang, Associate Professor of Materials Science, for the 2024 CUAFA Young Investigator Award.

Join us in celebrating these two outstanding colleagues at the Third CUAFA Annual Fundraising and Gala Dinner on Feb 24, 2024.

RSVP Required

February 8, 4:00 pm –  6:00 pm    

Join CSER as we present the first speaker for our Spring 2024 Seminar Series: Dr. Michelle Stephens of Rutgers University. She is a Professor of English and Latino & Caribbean Studies as well as the Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice.

In her talk, Race, Ethnic Studies, and the Human, Dr. Stephens will explore some of Sylvia Wynter’s key insights from the 1960s and 1970s onward, understanding her legacy through the lenses of both Foucault’s notion of a disqualified knowledge, and Deleuze’s description of the profound discrepancy between a logic of representation and a logic of difference. In so doing, the talk sets the stage for exploring how the vision, and mission, of ethnic and race studies projects might help set a new agenda for humanness and its futures.

February 6, 6:00 pm –  8:00 pm    

The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race presents an evening in celebration of…

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

(Columbia U.P., 2023)

A Conversation with the author, Courtney Thorsson

And two members of the Sisterhood: Margo Jefferson and Patricia Spears Jones

Moderated by Farah Jasmine Griffin

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024 at 6pm

Columbia University

Location: East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall

RSVP required

February 2, 9:00 am –  6:00 pm    

Attend Labor Past and Present: Bringing History and Activism Together. This conference will be held at Columbia University Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106, on February 2, 2024, from 9:00 am until 6:00 pm EST.

This conference asks: what is the value of history to labor? What is the value of labor to history? How might we better bring the lessons of the past to laborers, labor organizers, scholars, students, and the public at large? And how does centering non-traditional labor and underrepresented experiences in labor organizing and labor history help us to better understand both?

Join us as we explore these questions through the research of graduate student panelists and roundtable discussions. Panels and roundtables include: “Labor & Culture,” “Labor & Health,” “State, Statelessness, and the Law”, “Teaching Labor and Labor History” and “Labor Today: Crisis and Resurgence.”

You can view the tentative schedule and list of speakers, as well as register for Labor Past and Present using this link or the QR code in the attached flyer. All registered guests will receive a boxed lunch and are invited to join the speakers and presenters for a reception from 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm. All attendees must pre-register by January 31, 2024. This conference is in-person only.

January 29, 5:45 pm –  7:30 pm    

Join CSER in celebrating the start of the Spring 2024 semester with food and refreshments!

Monday, January 29th, 2024

5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

Hamilton Hall, 420 Seminar Room

December 11, 5:30 pm –  7:30 pm    

Join CSER in celebrating the end of the Fall 2023 semester with food, refreshments, and music!

December 11, 2023, 5:30 – 7:30 PM

Hamilton Hall, 420 Seminar Room

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