Past Events
Coding Freedom? Coding Academies and Narratives of Minority Advancement (Alondra Nelson)
Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility) / Free and open to the public
Discussant: Ezekiel Dixon-Román (Penn School of Social Policy and Practice)
All attendees are encouraged to read Prof. Nelson's paper, available here.
Graduate Workshop - Drawing National Boundaries: Citizenship on the Margins
College Hall, Room 209 (Accessibility)
Lunch provided.
Dannah Dennis (Anthropology, University of Virginia)
"In the Name of the Mother: Gendered and Regional Exclusions in Nepali Citizenship"
"Does Citizenship Travel? Diaspora Voting in Africa"
Graduate Workshop - Race-making, Labor, and Capitalism in Modern America
Lunch provided.
Minju Bae (History, Temple University)
“No More Phoney Contracts”: Organizing Chinese-Restaurant Labor in 1980s New York (PDF)
Labor Market Segmentation and the Production of Ethnicity and Race Ideologies in Arizona Copper: Ethnic and Racial Group-Making and the Construction of Tractable Workforces (PDF)
America, Your Free Speech Update is Ready, But Not How You Planned It: Campus Hate Speech, First Amendment Protections, and the Physical Impact on Marginalized Gender and Racial/Ethnic Bodies (Ange-Marie Hancock)
Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility) / Free and open to the public
Discussant: Dorothy Roberts (UPenn Law)
All attendees are encouraged to read Prof. Hancock's paper, available here.
PROFESSOR HANCOCK PROPOSES A PROVOCATIVE “UPDATE” to our understanding of the First Amendment that considers contemporary research documenting the physical impact of verbal abuse, hate speech and other forms of “microagression.” She argues that such speech should no longer be considered permissible in light of its documented harmful physical impact, which is similar to the impact of other harmful behaviors.
Graduate Workshop - Political Language and Social Movements: Claiming Power on the Left and Right
Lunch provided.
Hadas Aron (Political Science, Columbia University)
"Intimate Rivals or Enemies of the State: Responses to the Populist Far Right in Hungary"
"Community-Based Organizations, and the Reconstruction of Policy Frameworks During Political Crises"