{"id":14296,"date":"2022-01-24T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/?page_id=14296"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:18:38","slug":"decolonizinghumanism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/decolonizinghumanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\">\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-slider-container fusion-slider-sc-decolonizing-humanism-page fusion-slider-560 full-width-slider\" style=\"height:400px; max-width:100%;\" data-id=\"560\" data-full_height=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-slider-560 .flex-direction-nav a {width:63px;height:63px;line-height:63px;font-size:25px;}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-slider-loading\">Loading...<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tfs-slider flexslider main-flex full-width-slider\" data-slider_width=\"100%\" data-slider_height=\"400px\" data-full_screen=\"0\" data-parallax=\"0\" data-nav_arrows=\"1\" data-nav_arrow_size=\"25px\" data-nav_box_width=\"63px\" data-nav_box_height=\"63px\" data-slideshow_speed=\"7000\" data-loop=\"0\" data-autoplay=\"1\" data-orderby=\"date\" data-order=\"DESC\" data-animation=\"fade\" data-animation_speed=\"600\" data-typo_sensitivity=\"1\" data-typo_factor=\"1.5\" style=\"max-width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"slides\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li data-mute=\"yes\" data-loop=\"yes\" data-autoplay=\"yes\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"slide-content-container slide-content-left\" style=\"display: none;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"slide-content\" style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"background background-image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/decolonizing.jpg);max-width:100%;height:400px;filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/decolonizing.jpg', sizingMethod='scale');\" data-imgwidth=\"2550\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p>Left Image (public domain, Wikimedia Commons: https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sacred_Stone_Camp_North_Dakota_(29167637232).jpg)<br \/>\nDakota Access Pipeline protest at the Sacred Stone Camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. 25 August 2016 Credit: Tony Webster. Right Image (courtesy of Dylan Rodr\u00edguez) Sign from mass demonstration in Downtown Riverside, CA. 1 June 2020<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h2>PI: Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/h2>\n<h3>Decolonizing Humanism(?) encourages inter-\/trans-\/anti-disciplinary collaborations that address the categories of \u2018human\u2019 and \u2018humanism\u2019 as formations of colonial power\/violence.<\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p>This stream of activity and programming centers knowledge, archival, and aesthetic practices that challenge the presumptive coherence of the \u2018humanities\u2019 as such, including canonical and hegemonic institutionalizations. This collaborative labor aspires to cultivate conversations and connection across intellectual sites, within and beyond university and academic spaces.<\/p>\n<div><span id=\"ext-gen297\">\u201cThe Decolonizing Humanism(?) initiative has collaborated or will collaborate with organizations that include:\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/africam.berkeley.edu\/black-studies-collaboratory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Black-Studies-Collaboratory-logo-286x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"62\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8212;<\/span><a 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600w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Imagining-America-logo.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h2>UCR as a center of gravity<\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"accordian fusion-accordian\" style=\"--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:14px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#628ac7;--awb-content-color:#747474;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#126eb3;--awb-title-font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;--awb-title-font-weight:regular;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:15px;--awb-title-line-height:1.54;--awb-content-font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;\"><div class=\"panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed\" id=\"accordion-14252-1\"><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-aa76735ce2fa8a542 fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_aa76735ce2fa8a542\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"aa76735ce2fa8a542\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#aa76735ce2fa8a542\" href=\"#aa76735ce2fa8a542\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies Speaker Series, featuring post-doctoral fellows<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"aa76735ce2fa8a542\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_aa76735ce2fa8a542\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Jamal Batts: &#8220;&#8216;I Cruise a Black Maze&#8217;: Black Visuality, Queer Disorientation, and the Siting of Risk&#8221;<br \/>\nVirtual Event on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 1:00pm to 2:00pm<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In queer studies, spaces for public sex often serves as architectures of liberation\u2014bastions against the onslaught of deadly homophobic antagonisms. This talk considers the ways in which black lesbian film and black gay poetry navigate and imagine these spaces\u2014considered dangerous vectors of HIV transmission by the state and some liberal LGBTQ political actors. By considering artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden\u2019s short experimental video The Labyrinth 1.0 (2017), the semi-autobiographical poetry of Essex Hemphill, and the photography of London-based South Asian photographer Sunil Gupta, I claim the disorientations produced by inhabiting blackness in white space and gendered difference in gay male space as productive models for the engagement and critique of queer pleasure. These works argue for a potentially agential navigation of queer space and racialized forms of sexual risk-taking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamal Batts<\/strong>, PhD is a scholar, writer, and curator. He completed his doctoral work in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley. His dissertation, Immoral Panics: Black Queer Aesthetics and the Construction of Risk, reflects on the relation between black queer contemporary art and the intricacies of sexual risk. He is a 2020 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, a ONE National Lesbian and Gay Archives LGBTQ Research Fellow, and a 2020 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Scholar-in-Residence. With the curatorial collective The Black Aesthetic, he organized four seasons of black experimental film screenings and produced three edited volumes. He is currently a University of California President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine and the first Curator-in-Residence in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. His writing appears in numerous publications.<\/p>\n<p>******<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu: &#8220;Weaving Tongan Futurities Through Refusing the March of Surrender and Honoring Our Commitment to Protect the Sacred &#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Virtual Event on\u00a0Thursday, January 27 at 3:00pm\u00a0to\u00a04:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>REGISTER:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/Jan27_niumeitolu\"><strong>https:\/\/bit.ly\/Jan27_niumeitolu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This presentation examines Tongan race, gender, and sexualities produced through a colonial phenomenon that I term as \u201cMarch of Surrender.\u201d The March of Surrender highlights the quintessential objective of \u201cwhite terror\u201d in the Pacific Island nation of Tonga and here in California&#8211;the desecration of the Sacred. I redefine \u201cwhite terror\u201d as a racialized violence aimed to produce colonial systems of kinships and social relationalities by surveilling colonial institutions of gender, sexualities, and families. This new status quo is produced as well as maintained through the normalization of violence against the bodies of Tongan women and girls. Correspondingly, I argue, the scope of white terror is inextricably tied to the expropriation of the Tongan natural world, the fonua (land and mother earth) to the Moana (spatialities of ocean). These cosmologies are often delineated as Feminine and located at the core of what we defined as the Sacred.<\/p>\n<p>Considering what Ohlone\/ Costanoan, writer Deborah Miranda terms as the \u201cgenealogy of violence,\u201d I trace two contemporary renditions of March of Surrender and consider how they stem from early nineteenth century and extend to the present. I begin by looking at the Marches of Surrender that took place in May 2015 in Tonga to protest women\u2019s rights led by the Christian Churches\u2019 Forum. Additionally, I turn to the diaspora, as in 2009, Tongans were performing Marches of Surrender throughout California and standing with the Mormon Church to protect the institution of heteropatriarchy by supporting Proposition 8. In my final section, I turn to Tongan futurities in the East Bay, California, to highlight the decolonial marches produced by Tongan and Pacific Islander \u201carrivants.\u201d I conclude with examples of\u00a0\u201cregenerative refusal\u201d to the March of Surrender, specifically our commitment to stand as \u201callies and accomplices\u201d with the Lisjan Ohlone Tribe, the Indigenous stewards of this land, in their work to protect their Indigenous Sacred sites from desecration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu<\/strong> is a Tongan (Pacific Islander) scholar, storyteller and community organizer and her work centers: climate and environmental justice, ending violence against women and building radical solidarities with California American Indian tribes to protect Indigenous Sacred Sites in the Pacific and here in California. She graduated with her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently a University of California President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow and Facilitator of the Oceania: Pacific Islands Studies Research Working Group in the Department of Native American Studies at University of California, Davis. Fui is a part of the Sogorea Te Land Trust, an Urban Indigenous women-led organization, that rematriates Indigenous lands back to Indigenous peoples and she hosts the popular \u201cSogorea Te Seeding Hope Speaker Series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>******<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yatta Kiazolu,&#8221;Determining Diaspora Solidarity: The National Council of Negro Women in West Africa and African American Women\u2019s Fight for Full Citizenship, 1960<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Virtual Event on <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Wednesday, February 16 at 1:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>REGISTER: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/GSSTKiazolu\"><strong>https:\/\/bit.ly\/GSSTKiazolu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1960, African decolonization on the world stage presented greater opportunity to actualize new political terrain in the interest of people of African descent. Committed to this cause, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) under the tenure of then-president Dorothy Height, emphasized building relationships with African women nationalists for both its leaders and members, many of whom traveled to the continent for the first time. Through solidarity with African women nationalists preparing for new roles in emerging societies, Council women\u2019s on-the-ground interactions helped advance their case for Black women\u2019s inclusion in public life at home, and more broadly, for full citizenship. This research explores the gendered Black global imaginary produced by contradictory investments in uplift, nation-state inclusion co-existing alongside deep commitments to African decolonization, and the ways the politics of diasporic solidarity respond to the needs and pressures of citizenship. These experiences offer an entry point into Black women\u2019s global struggle for self-emancipation in the age of decolonization, civil, and human rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yatta Kiazolu<\/strong> is a UC President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego with community engagement and research interests at the intersection of the contemporary African diaspora, African American history, and Women and Gender studies. She received her Ph.D. in History from UCLA.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-5347d0a5fcf829327 fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_5347d0a5fcf829327\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"5347d0a5fcf829327\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#5347d0a5fcf829327\" href=\"#5347d0a5fcf829327\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Black Study Initiative<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"5347d0a5fcf829327\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_5347d0a5fcf829327\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Black Study in Times of Antiblackness: In Conversation with the Black Study Initiative Committee: A Roundtable Discussion<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Virtual Event hosted Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 11:00am\u00a0to\u00a012:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Members of the UC Riverside BSI Committee in a roundtable discussion about the Department of Black Study proposal and Fall 2021 programming.<\/p>\n<p>******<\/p>\n<p><strong>Department of Black Study: Open Forum<br \/>\nVirtual event: May 19, 2022 at 11:00 am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/712994125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>WATCH VIDEO<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this online, open forum, Black Study Initiative (BSI) members will discuss the origins, foundational concepts, and imagined futures of the proposed UCR Department of Black Study. This is an opportunity for faculty, staff, students, and community members to acquire information, ask questions and raise concerns. BSI committee members will share the proposed department\u2019s focus, details, curriculum, goals, and investments that we, and hundreds of others, believe affirm Black life and Black futures.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-5152a7eb459d5f10e fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_5152a7eb459d5f10e\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"5152a7eb459d5f10e\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#5152a7eb459d5f10e\" href=\"#5152a7eb459d5f10e\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Black Horror Salon: A Literary Conversation<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"5152a7eb459d5f10e\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_5152a7eb459d5f10e\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Black Horror Salon: A Literary Conversation<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Virtual Event hosted\u00a0Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 4:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1R_8rSEWeiY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH VIDEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The conventional horror tropes of the return of the repressed and of the monster do not adhere to black life which has been characterized by ever present terror and the misnaming of the monster. Through this convocation of dynamic writers, theorists, and artists, the conversation will touch upon issues of craft as well as of how to live blackly, attuned to the unique yet common experience of what John Jennings has called \u201cthe Black gothic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hosted and organized by Courtney Baker<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit:\u00a0Art by John Jennings<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kiese Makeba Laymon<\/strong> is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the author of Long Division and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. Laymon\u2019s bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. The audiobook, read by the author, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year. Laymon is the recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Lisa B. Thompson<\/strong> is professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Beyond The Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, Single Black Female, and Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues: Three Plays. Thompson\u2019s plays have been produced throughout the US and internationally. Her accolades include LA Weekly Theatre Award for Best Comedy nominee, Irma P. Hall Black Theatre Award Best Play winner, Austin Critics Circle David Mark Cohen New Play Award winner, and Broadway World Regional Awards Best Writing of an Original Work winner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Ther\u00ed A. Pickens<\/strong> is Professor of English at Bates College, specializing in African American, Arab American and disability literatures and theories. Her monograph, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness, explores the connection between Blackness and madness. Her first book New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States. She guest edited the 50th anniversary issue of African American Review and the College Language Association Journal special issue on Blackness and Disability. Her poetry has appeared in Squaw Valley Journal, Black Renaissance\/Renaissance Noire, and Disability Studies Quarterly. Her drama has been performed at the NJ State Theater.<\/p>\n<p><strong>andr\u00e9 carrington<\/strong> is Associate Professor of English at UC Riverside. His book, Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction analyzes the role of blackness in science fiction and fantasy works across popular media. He has published in Present Tense, Sounding Out!, African &amp; Black Diaspora, the Blackwell Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Ink, and Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam\u2019s Call. He is a past fellow of the Penn Humanities Forum (now the Wolf Humanities Center) and the Hutchins Center at Harvard, and is the recipient of a New York Council for the Humanities grant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Courtney R. Baker<\/strong> is an Associate Professor in the department of English at University of California, Riverside. She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University. She co-founded and served as the inaugural chair of the Black Studies program at Occidental College where she was also an Associate Professor of American Studies. She is author of HUMANE INSIGHT: Looking at Images of African-American Suffering and Death. She has written academic and popular essays on African-American film, the history of the image in African-American activism, and the ethics of narratives about death.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-008cfa54330a04597 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_008cfa54330a04597\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"008cfa54330a04597\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#008cfa54330a04597\" href=\"#008cfa54330a04597\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">What Black Study Means to Me\/Us<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"008cfa54330a04597\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_008cfa54330a04597\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Event on November 30, 2022 5:30pm to 7:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Barn\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/BlackStud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View Event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Panel discussion &amp; Gathering<\/p>\n<p>An opportunity for faculty and staff to share the mission and importance of the new Department of Black Study.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism initiative at the Center for Ideas &amp; Society<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-c061b6631be575512 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_c061b6631be575512\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"c061b6631be575512\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#c061b6631be575512\" href=\"#c061b6631be575512\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Black Liberation and Revolutionary Struggle, NOW<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"c061b6631be575512\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_c061b6631be575512\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p>A Roundtable Conversation with Sekou Odinga<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/BlackLiberation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Event on February 27, 2023 at 12pm at CHASS INTS 1128<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1L7Vw0AQSyg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH VIDEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sekou Odinga is a globally recognized Black liberation activist, member of Malcolm X\u2019s Organization of Afro-American Unity, founding member of both the New York City chapter and the International Section of the Black Panther Party, and former US political prisoner who survived 33 years of state captivity before his release in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecuted as one of the \u201cPanther 21\u201d in New York City, Odinga is a prominent historical figure, having been featured on Democracy Now! and numerous documentaries, albums, mass public events, and major news outlets. A survivor of state torture and the FBI\u2019s notorious Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), Sekou Odinga is both celebrated and admired by freedom and justice movements worldwide, exemplifying persistence, courage, and principled adherence to freedom struggle under the most repressive circumstances imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for this highly anticipated conversation with Sekou Odinga on the meaning, context, and possibilities of Black liberation and revolutionary struggle over a long half-century (and beyond) of normalized antiblack state violence, intensifying freedom movements, and emerging abolitionist mobilizations.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Roundtable Participants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vonya Quarles (Starting Over, All Of Us Or None)<\/li>\n<li>Terrance Stewart (UCR graduate student, Underground Scholars, All Of Us Or None)<\/li>\n<li>Amanda Soto (UCR undergraduate student, Underground Scholars)<\/li>\n<li>Alejandra Olvera (UCR undergraduate student, Cops Off Campus)<\/li>\n<li>Steph Jones (UCR\/UC President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow)<\/li>\n<li>(emcee\/host) Dylan Rodr\u00edguez (UCR faculty, Cops Off Campus, Co-Director of Center for Ideas and Society)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society,\u00a0Blackness Unbound Faculty Commons Working Group, ASUCR, ASUCR External Affairs Office,\u00a0and the Departments of English, History, and Black Study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ASUCR-External-Colored-Logo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15926 \" src=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ASUCR-External-Colored-Logo-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ASUCR-External-Colored-Logo-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ASUCR-External-Colored-Logo-150x150.png 150w, 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1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 102px) 100vw, 102px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/asucr-logo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15927 \" src=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/asucr-logo-300x94.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/asucr-logo-200x63.png 200w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/asucr-logo-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/asucr-logo-400x125.png 400w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/asucr-logo-460x145.png 460w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/asucr-logo.png 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-786027d9db19f7344 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_786027d9db19f7344\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"786027d9db19f7344\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#786027d9db19f7344\" href=\"#786027d9db19f7344\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"786027d9db19f7344\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_786027d9db19f7344\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/StayedonFreedom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Event<\/a> on May 10, 2023 at 1pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_xl8VcbunJU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us for a conversation with Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Michael Simmons and Dan Berger to help launch their new book: Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family\u2019s Journey.<\/p>\n<p>Special promotion: Three copies of the book will be given out as door prizes to participants of the webinar.<\/p>\n<p>Black Power has many connotations in its multitudes as a philosophy, an orientation, and a social movement that, since its inception, has been met with violent opposition, fear, and hatred. But perhaps the single quality that fuels it is the one most often overlooked: Black Power is a global expression of love.<\/p>\n<p>Through the story of two little-known organizers\u2014Zoharah and Michael Simmons\u2014we access a window to the endurance and experimentation of Black Power across space and time in Dan Berger\u2019s STAYED ON FREEDOM: The Long History of Black Power through One Family\u2019s Journey (Basic Books; January 24, 2023). After meeting in 1965 in Atlanta as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Memphis-born Zoharah\u2014then Gwen\u2014and the Philadelphia-born Michael traveled the country and the world to carry the fight for freedom and equality, and to build their familial and personal connections among political lives. From hours of interviews\u2014with friends, family, and activists\u2014and years of knowing the once-married couple, Berger relates a living and loving history of what has become an emblematic symbol for the pursuit of justice, and to see it as \u201ca potent way to understand the long-haul commitments of those who join, and sustain, the fight for freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BIOS:<\/p>\n<p>Dan Berger is Professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell. He is the author or editor of several books and curates the Washington Prison History Project. His most recent book is Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family\u2019s Journey, published by Basic Books.<\/p>\n<p>Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons Ph.D. is Professor Emerita from the University of Florida, where she taught African American, Religious and Women Studies. She is a veteran of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and of the Black Power, Women &amp; Anti-War Movements from the 1960s onward. She is a founding member of the National Council of Elders and a board member of the SNCC Legacy Project.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Simmons has been a domestic and international human rights activist for 60 years. Beginning as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later as Director of European programs for the American Friends Service Committee, Michael\u2019s work has taken him to Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. For 18 years, he co-founded and ran the R\u00e1day Salon, an independent human rights learning and discussion program in Budapest, Hungary. He also taught courses on African American History and US Elections at the Budapest campus of McDaniel College.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-a86290ba3e4131b35 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_a86290ba3e4131b35\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"a86290ba3e4131b35\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#a86290ba3e4131b35\" href=\"#a86290ba3e4131b35\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\"> UTOPIAS OF US<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"a86290ba3e4131b35\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_a86290ba3e4131b35\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/Oct30Flauzina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 30, 2023 6pm to 7:30pm<\/a><br \/>\nIn Person | CHASS INTS 1111 &#8216;Round Room&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Notice:\u00a0 Issues of sexual violence will be addressed during this event<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The performance \u201cUTOPIA of US\u201d is based on a tales book by Ana Flauzina. It talks about black women challenges in regards to the ongoing genocide in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Issues related to slavery legacy, sexual assault, among others are the core of Ana Flauzina\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is about an experience that articulates reading of some short book excerpts combined with speeches based on violence reports, and it will count on the special participation of the House Band from the World Stage in LA.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-a51cca7238b9149f0 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_a51cca7238b9149f0\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"a51cca7238b9149f0\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#a51cca7238b9149f0\" href=\"#a51cca7238b9149f0\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\"> Ana Flauzina: Raping my body, violating my soul<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"a51cca7238b9149f0\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_a51cca7238b9149f0\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/Flauzina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 31, 2023 1pm to 3:30pm<\/a><br \/>\nHybrid | Zoom \/ Humanities 1500<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Notice:\u00a0 Issues of sexual violence will be addressed during this event<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaping my body, violating my soul\u201d is the result of the research project Facets of Anti-Black Genocide: Towards a Theory of Rape as the Condition of Terror developed by Ana Flauzina as a Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellow in the Media and Cultural Studies Department.<\/p>\n<p>The research attempts to contribute to the critical interdisciplinary fields of diasporic Black Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies by examining how sexual violence forms a complex matrix of assault targeting Black communities in the Diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>It considers that rape, in addition to being a historically durable method for brutalizing Black women&#8217;s bodies, also constitutes a weapon in disarticulating Black communities en masse. In other words, rape is materially responsible for the massacre of Black women\u2019s bodies and is also a primary ideological-discursive weapon of anti-Black genocide.<\/p>\n<p>The research methodology takes into account the formulations of Black feminist scholars as well as the primary testimonies of Black women survivors of sexual violence and terror.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Raping my body, violating my soul responds to a broad, diasporic demand for scholarship on anti-Black genocide that directly reflects Black women\u2019s complex reflections on their bodily and spiritual exposure to gendered and sexualized terror.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-7eb18c04865a87209 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_7eb18c04865a87209\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"7eb18c04865a87209\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#7eb18c04865a87209\" href=\"#7eb18c04865a87209\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\"> Entanglement: 2025 UC Graduate Student Conference<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"7eb18c04865a87209\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_7eb18c04865a87209\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/entanglement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 7, 2025 | 9:30am to 4:30pm<\/a><br \/>\nVirtual Event<\/p>\n<p>The UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society invites participation in a virtual conference that explores the theme of\u00a0<b>entanglement<\/b>. Sixteen UC graduate students representing six UC campuses will present humanities -related research that reflect creative, critical engagement with the concept of entanglement as a unifying idea, method, or theoretical approach.<\/p>\n<p><b>9:30 &#8211; 10:30AM &#8211; Entanglements with Humans and Other Animals<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Moderator &#8211; Courtney R. Baker (Associate Professor, English, UCR)<br \/>\nAfter Bare Life: Theorizing the Dynamics of Somatic Symbolism &#8211; Jovana Isevski (UC Riverside, English)<br \/>\nCo-Existence, Co-Dependence, &amp; Conflict: Multispecies Entanglement in Practice &#8211; Courtney Lamb (UC Riverside, History)<br \/>\nLimb\/Wing &#8211; Fiona Martinez (UC San Diego, Literature MFA)<\/p>\n<p><b>11:00AM &#8211; 12:00PM &#8211; Entanglements in Race, History, and Identity<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Moderator &#8211; Dana Simmons (Associate Professor, Society, Environment, and Health Equity, UC Riverside)<br \/>\nThe Warrior Songstress: Transcendent Listening Aesthetics, Memory, and Music Making for Black Women in the Central Valley of California<b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/b>Chiquitha Aminsalehi (UC Merced, Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group)<br \/>\nRacial Entanglements: Journals of the Chinese Labour Corps in First World War &#8211; Tianyun Hua (UC Davis, Comparative Literature)<br \/>\nPolicing an Image: Los Angeles and the 1984 Olympics &#8211; Muhammad Rafi (UC Irvine, History)<\/p>\n<p><b>11:00AM &#8211; 12:00PM &#8211; Entanglements with Big Issues<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Moderator &#8211; Dylan Rodriguez (Professor, Media &amp; Cultural Studies, Black Study, UC Riverside)<br \/>\njournalism crisis, democracy, capitalism\u00a0&#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b>Kelly Chen (UC San Diego, Communication)<br \/>\nImmigrant families and the Juvenile Justice system<b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/b>Ana Ojeda (UC Riverside, Sociology)<br \/>\nVisualizing the Invisible: Nuclear Materialism and Thing-power in Zhao Liang\u2019s <i>I\u2019m So Sorry\u00a0<\/i>(2021) &#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b>wenxin zhang (UC Irvine, Film and Media Studies)<\/p>\n<p><b>1:00 &#8211; 2:30PM &#8211; PLENARY PANEL:<i>\u00a0<\/i>Apocalyptic Entanglements: a Keynote Roundtable on the Temporality and Geography of Wildfire\/Disaster<br \/>\n<\/b>Panelists: J. Kameron Carter, Francesca M. Hopkins, Mark Minch-de Leon, and Brittani R. Orona<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/EntanglementKeynote\">More Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>3:00 &#8211; 4:30PM &#8211; Entanglements in Creative Spaces<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Moderator &#8211; Yong Cho (Assistant Professor, History of Art, UC Riverside)<br \/>\nPerformance art as a space of entanglement of the roles of audience, artist, and performer: three cases. &#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b>Rodrigo Arenas (UC Riverside, Dance)<br \/>\nANYBODY CAN PRETEND: Lutz Bacher\u2019s \u201dThe Lee Harvey Oswald Interview\u201d &#8211; Sarah Grace Faulk (UC Riverside, Art History)<br \/>\nA genre entangled with Audio infrastructure: Making of \u2018Assamese Modern song\u2019 in Studios in Guwahati, Assam, India &#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b>Dishanka Gogoi (UC Merced, Interdisciplinary Humanities)<br \/>\nListening to the Distant Echo\u2014Exploring Narratives of Africa in Chinese Podcasts &#8211; Mingyi Xiao (UC Santa Barbara, Comparative Literature)<\/p>\n<p><b>3:00 &#8211; 4:00PM &#8211; Entanglements on the University Campus<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Moderator &#8211; Yolanda T. Moses (Professor, Anthropology, UC Riverside)<br \/>\nAn Anthropologist Walks Into A Natural History Museum: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Entanglement in Historically-Informed Ethnographic STS (Science and Technology Studies) Research &#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b>Gian Gregorio (UC San Diego, Anthropology (sociocultural) and Science Studies)<br \/>\n<b>\u00a0<\/b>\u201dIt costs them so much to get here\u201d: The Work of Friendship at the International Center &#8211; Teresa Naval (UC San Diego, Communication &amp; Science Studies)<br \/>\nPerspectives on Co-teaching &#8211; Shaina Wright (UC Riverside, School of Education)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society, UC Humanities Research Institute, through a Multi-Campus Research Program grant from the UC Office of the President, Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Initiative, and the Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-bfd3684a5c2c3f54a fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_bfd3684a5c2c3f54a\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"bfd3684a5c2c3f54a\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#bfd3684a5c2c3f54a\" href=\"#bfd3684a5c2c3f54a\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\"> Freedom First: An Evening with Keith LaMar<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"bfd3684a5c2c3f54a\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_bfd3684a5c2c3f54a\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/LaMar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 14, 2025 7:30pm | Virtual Event<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1WFk9pNQrQc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On April\u00a014, Keith LaMar will speak from death row about his campaign for justice and freedom. While in solitary confinement, where he has been held for more than 30 years, Mr. LaMar has written a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithlamar.org\/condemned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book<\/a>, recorded a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithlamar.org\/product-page\/pre-order-freedom-first-the-album-delivery-in-march\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoken word jazz album<\/a>\u00a0and delivered talks and performances to sold out crowds of people across the country. Mr. LaMar has been the subject of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T4iOQ24Jamk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">documentary<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithlamar.org\/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple podcasts<\/a>, as well as a recently released, award-winning short film,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eqfbHR1agHM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Injustice of Justice<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>which will be shown during the webinar.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us for an evening with poet, musician and author,\u00a0<b>Keith LaMar<\/b>, and LaMar&#8217;s campaign manager,\u00a0<b>Amy Gordiejew<\/b>, as they discuss his commitment to truth, love, justice and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative at the Center for Ideas &amp; Society,\u00a0Media and Cultural Studies Department, and the Department of Black Study.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-9e8c9b8b6e80ec0e4 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_9e8c9b8b6e80ec0e4\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"9e8c9b8b6e80ec0e4\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#9e8c9b8b6e80ec0e4\" href=\"#9e8c9b8b6e80ec0e4\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"9e8c9b8b6e80ec0e4\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_9e8c9b8b6e80ec0e4\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/AlanaLentin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 10, 2025 1:30pm | CHASS INTS 1113<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy<\/i>\u00a0(Pluto Press, 2025), with author Alana Lentin, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Western Sydney University<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Alana Lentin&#8217;s newest book shows how the attacks on Black, Indigenous and anticolonial thought and praxis reveal the processes through which racial colonial rule is ideologically resecured.\u00a0The often chaotic and contradictory restitching of the racial regime is traced through the attacks on Critical Race Theory; the \u2018whitelash\u2019 against the teaching of histories of slavery and colonialism; the counterinsurgent capture and institutionalisation of antiracism, Indigeneity and decoloniality in the interests of Zionism, settler colonialism, and imperialism; and the ways that the state mandated \u2018war on antisemitism\u2019 reforms white supremacism in a time of genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for a lecture and conversation with Prof. Lentin!<\/p>\n<p>Cosponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism Initiative at the UCR Center for Ideas &amp; Society, Departments of Ethnic Studies, Black Study, and Media and Cultural Studies<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-4bb1e2d9cf96c469a fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_4bb1e2d9cf96c469a\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"4bb1e2d9cf96c469a\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#4bb1e2d9cf96c469a\" href=\"#4bb1e2d9cf96c469a\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Archival Irruptions Across Fields and Temporalities: A Research Showcase with UC President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellows<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"4bb1e2d9cf96c469a\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_4bb1e2d9cf96c469a\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/UCR_PPFP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 12, 2025 12pm | Virtual Event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join us for an end-of-term scholarly showcase, foregrounding the work of current UC President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellows <strong>Michael J. Myers II<\/strong> (Ph.D. UC Berkeley, UCR PPFP), <strong>Tareq Radi<\/strong> (Ph.D. NYU, UC Merced and UCR PPFP) and<strong> Maya Wind<\/strong> (Ph.D. NYU, UCR PPFP) in conversation with past Postdoctoral Fellows Prof. <strong>Stephanie Jones<\/strong> (UCR, Asst. Prof. of Black Study) and Prof. <strong>Rana Sharif<\/strong> (UCR, incoming Asst. Prof. of Media and Cultural Studies). The current Fellows will introduce their ongoing postdoctoral research programs, followed by responses from Profs. Jones and Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by PPFP Faculty Mentors Prof. <strong>Sean Malloy<\/strong> (UC Merced) and Prof. <strong>Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> (UCR). Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) programming stream at the UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society.<\/p>\n<p>Presentation Titles<\/p>\n<p>Michael J. Myers II: &#8220;On (Story-Telling) Matters Concerning Violent Black Rebellion: Aesthetics, Archives, and Poetics&#8221;<br \/>\nTareq Radi: \u201cMortgaged Futures: Financial Intimacies of Turtle Island, Palestine, and the Philippines\u201d<br \/>\nMaya Wind: &#8220;Homefront Experiments: The Global Export of the Israeli Frontier&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-0e38460020667a7f7 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_0e38460020667a7f7\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"0e38460020667a7f7\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-1\" data-target=\"#0e38460020667a7f7\" href=\"#0e38460020667a7f7\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\"> Indigenous Truthtelling Symposium &amp; Art Exhibit <\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"0e38460020667a7f7\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_0e38460020667a7f7\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indigenoustruthtelling.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2, 2025 9am | CHASS INTS 1113<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indigenous Truthtelling brings together past and ongoing legacies of resistance to colonialism to educate about Indigenous resistance movements &#8211; with distinct homelands, languages and cultures \u2013 including Indigenous residents of Turtle Island and the Palestinian shatat, diaspora, as well as their co-strugglers.<br \/>\nRecognizing the ongoing anti-colonial struggles of Indigenous people around the world, we envision this as one step toward a shared liberated horizon.<br \/>\nWe hope that teachers, educators, students, laity, community members and people of conscience will share and educate others with these artistic pieces, poems and mosaics.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by California Center for Native Nations, UCR Media and Cultural Studies Department, and the Decolonizing Humanism(?) programming stream at the UCR Center for Ideas and Society.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h2>Abolition Praxis<\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"accordian fusion-accordian\" style=\"--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:14px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#628ac7;--awb-content-color:#747474;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#126eb3;--awb-title-font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;--awb-title-font-weight:regular;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:15px;--awb-content-font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;\"><div class=\"panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed\" id=\"accordion-14252-2\"><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-113e1211fef3e358d fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_113e1211fef3e358d\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"113e1211fef3e358d\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-2\" data-target=\"#113e1211fef3e358d\" href=\"#113e1211fef3e358d\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Abolitionist Thought and Praxis<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"113e1211fef3e358d\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_113e1211fef3e358d\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Abolitionist Thought and Praxis: the Black Organizing Project (Oakland USD) and Black Minds Matter (Peralta Community College District) in Dialog with Cops Off Campus<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Virtual event \u00a0Friday, November 19, 2021 at 4:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UYq14OcPDcQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH VIDEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conversation with Jessica Black of the Black Organizing Project and Prof. Kimberly King (Laney Community College) of Black Minds Matter (Peralta Community College District) and the Laney Chapter of the Poor People&#8217;s Campaign to discuss Oakland&#8217;s long and eventually successful struggle to get police out of public schools and community colleges. The conversation was facilitated by cultural historian, political theorist, and Cops Off Campus member Prof. Erin Gray (Assistant Professor, English, UC Davis) and included Prof. Dylan Rodr\u00edguez, Co-Director of the Center for Ideas and Society and a founding Cops Off Campus collaborator\/organizer.<\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by the Decolonizing(?) Humanism Initiative and UCR African Student Programs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessica Black<\/strong> is a Minnesota native with a passion for social justice and cultural interpretation. A mother of two, Jessica came to California in 2013 in order to reconnect with family. For 10 years, as the Education Systems Navigator at the Cultural Wellness Center in Minnesota, Jessica worked to further enhance her skills of strategic planning, collective communication, shared authority and motivational speaking. Jessica has worked to dismantle unequal systematic approaches in housing, employment, education and criminal justice institutions for many years. Jessica embraces and is guided by the elders within her community. These relationships aid her in recruiting and organizing Black parents, to encourage their involvement in schools, and influencing policy, procedures, and paradigm shifts. Ultimately, Jessica\u2019s passion to help Black people recognize the power and potential they possess led her to BOP. Through BOP Jessica hopes to continue her journey of achieving equitable access for Black people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kimberly King\u00a0<\/strong>earned her BA in Psychology from Yale University and her MA and PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a community organizer and committed advocate for social justice leading numerous workshops and teach-ins both on and off campus. Currently, she is the Chairperson of the Peralta Federation of Teachers Diversity Committee, as well as the Faculty Co-Coordinator of the Umoja-Ubaka Project. She is a Professor at Laney Community College in Psychology and Ethnic Studies, a founding member of Black Minds Matter (Peralta), and a member of the Laney Chapter of the Poor People\u2019s Campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erin Gray<\/strong> is a post-disciplinary cultural historian and political theorist focusing on the relationship between politics, aesthetics, and critical theory. Her research interests include political violence and left counter-histories of genocide; visual and performance studies; aesthetics and experimental poetics; gender studies and feminist epistemology; critical race studies; the black radical tradition and critiques of racial capitalism; historiography and history from below; affect, sentiment, sensation, and biopolitics. Erin\u2019s research is presently focused on gendered racial formations within the photographic history of global white supremacy. Her current book project, The Moving Image of Lynching: Law-Founding Violence and Liberal Terror in the United States, engages the circulation of lynching across such media forms as the postcard, pamphlet, photography exhibition, magazine spread, newsreel, sound installation, and live and recorded reenactment to theorize an altered history of white supremacist violence in the U.S. Focusing on the co-emergence of legal lynching and racial liberalism, the manuscript theorizes the image of lynching as a dialectical object that illuminates the constitutive relationship of extra-legal terror to racial capitalism and U.S empire. Prior to her appointment at UC Davis, Erin taught in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University as a Provost postdoctoral fellow. From 2017-2018, Erin was a University of California President\u2019s postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at UC Irvine. She has twice been awarded fellowships from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dylan Rodr\u00edguez\u00a0<\/strong>is an abolitionist teacher, scholar, and collaborator. He was an inaugural Freedom Scholar awardee in 2020 and was elected by his peers to serve as the 2020-2021 President of the American Studies Association. He has worked as a Professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2001 and became Co-Director of the Center for Ideas and Society in 2021. He served two elected terms as Chair of the UCR Division of the Academic Senate (2016-2020) and chaired the Department of Ethnic Studies between 2009-2016. Dylan is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-7a827dfda0a95b274 fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_7a827dfda0a95b274\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"7a827dfda0a95b274\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-2\" data-target=\"#7a827dfda0a95b274\" href=\"#7a827dfda0a95b274\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Teaching and Learning Abolition<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"7a827dfda0a95b274\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_7a827dfda0a95b274\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Virtual Event on Friday, January 28 at 12:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/psWfwKrBjsA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>WATCH VIDEO<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to center abolition in teaching, research and art rather than \u201cmass incarceration?\u201d Whether you\u2019re abolition-curious or have been doing abolitionist work for a long time, join the Critical Resistance Abolitionist Educators for a conversation about the stakes of abolitionist study, the dangers of criminal justice and police reformism, and why they created the Critical Resistance Resource Guide for Teaching and Learning Abolition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melissa Burch<\/strong>\u00a0is Assistant Professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and a longtime member and former staffer of Critical Resistance. Her research and community work focuses on the experiences of people with criminal records in the United States. She is currently writing her first book on the discriminatory use of criminal records in the job market.<\/p>\n<p>Writer, educator and organizer,\u00a0<strong>Erica R. Meiners\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0current books include a co-edited anthology The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Towards Freedom (Haymarket Press 2018) and the co-authored Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (Verso 2020). At Northeastern Illinois University, Erica is a member of her labor union, University Professionals of Illinois, and she teaches classes in education, gender and sexuality studies, and justice studies. Most importantly, Erica has collaboratively started and works alongside others a range of ongoing mobilizations for liberation, particularly movements that involve access to free public education for all, including people during and after incarceration, and other queer abolitionist struggles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>\u00a0is an abolitionist teacher, scholar, and collaborator. He was an inaugural Freedom Scholar awardee in 2020 and was elected by his peers to serve as the 2020-2021 President of the American Studies Association. He has worked as a Professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2001 and became Co-Director of the Center for Ideas and Society in 2021. He served two elected terms as Chair of the UCR Division of the Academic Senate (2016-2020) and chaired the Department of Ethnic Studies between 2009-2016. Dylan is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Priya Kandaswamy<\/strong>\u00a0is a scholar and educator who works at the intersections of Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies, and Queer Studies. She is the author of Domestic Contradictions: Race and Gendered Citizenship from Reconstruction to Welfare (Duke University Press, 2021), and her scholarship has appeared in American Quarterly, Sexualities, Radical Teacher, and numerous other journals and anthologies. Priya is currently the Academic Program Director at Mt. Tamalpais College, a community college program that serves incarcerated students at San Quentin state prison.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shana Agid<\/strong>\u00a0is an artist\/designer, teacher, and activist whose work focuses on relationships of power and difference in visual, social, and political cultures. She is an Associate Professor of Arts, Media, and Communication at Parsons School of Design and a co-developer of Working with People (working-with-people.org), a keyword-based curriculum and website for developing critical pedagogical frameworks for collaborative practices. His design work focuses on exploring possibilities for making self-determined services and campaigns through teaching and design research. She is also a book artist and letterpress printer, and a long-time member of Critical Resistance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Setsu Shigematsu<\/strong>\u00a0is an Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies. Xe is the Director of Re-Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life (2011\/ 2021) and is co-producing a new documentary #Abolish ICE: Abolish Adelanto and All Border-Prisons. Xe authors eco-feminist childrens books, co-creates political art, and a co-founder of the Decolonial Feminist Art and Research Collective. Setsu is also the author of Scream from the Shadows: The Women\u2019s Liberation Movement in Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-a8d03859559b600e9 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_a8d03859559b600e9\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"a8d03859559b600e9\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-2\" data-target=\"#a8d03859559b600e9\" href=\"#a8d03859559b600e9\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">From Caste as a Protected Category to Caste Abolition<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"a8d03859559b600e9\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_a8d03859559b600e9\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Virtual Event on April 24, 2023 at 6pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/Caste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View Event<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bringing together leaders from the anti-caste movement in the U.S., this panel will highlight the efforts made to further caste protections in higher education institutions across the country, discuss the limitations of merely adding caste as a protected category without institutional commitment, and share visions of caste abolition.<\/p>\n<p><b>Panelists:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Jasmine (they\/she), Vidya (she\/they),\u00a0Shahira Bangar (she\/her), Manu Kaur (they\/them), and\u00a0Jamila (she\/her)<\/p>\n<p>Moderator: Anusha Kedhar (she\/her), Associate Professor of Dance (UCR).<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society, UCR Dance, UCR Religious Studies and Holstein Family and Community Endowed Chair, UCLA Center for India and South Asia, and\u00a0UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-04885e398ed0db4cc fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_04885e398ed0db4cc\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"04885e398ed0db4cc\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-2\" data-target=\"#04885e398ed0db4cc\" href=\"#04885e398ed0db4cc\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Resisting Institutional Casteism: Snippets Of Dalit Queer Life<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"04885e398ed0db4cc\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_04885e398ed0db4cc\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Virtual Event on\u00a0May 9, 2023 at 6pm\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/Riri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View Event<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"em-content_about\">\n<div class=\"em-about_description\">\n<p>In this talk, Riri will share their experiences as a Dalit gender nonbinary\/nonconforming and gender queer person from a poor family and a village in India. Today they are a PhD scholar and the only member of the Dalit-Trans community in their region who has been able to attain this level of academic success, all of which has come with its share of resisting homophobia and casteism. Through discussing their journey as a painter, student and community organizer, alongside being a scientist, they will highlight what it means to be a member of the LGBTQ community while being Dalit, especially because Dalit queer people and women are targets of state and intimate violence, making this is an issue that demands immediate visibility and action. Riri will also discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic shaped access to housing, public health support, and so on, by furthering existing inequities. Having led to the creation of their collective, The Outcaste LGBTQIA+, we will learn about the work that they have been able to accomplish in supporting their community in a society that is inherently brahmanical, homophobic and transphobic. This talk is also accompanied with an art fundraiser with pieces that speak volumes on Queer and Trans Dalit Futurisms, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, and more!<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by:<\/p>\n<p>Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society, UCR Dance, UCR Religious Studies and Holstein Family and Community Endowed Chair, UCR Performing Difference Working Group, UCLA Center for India and South Asia, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-cfe8f4346e2b71ca7 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_cfe8f4346e2b71ca7\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"cfe8f4346e2b71ca7\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-2\" data-target=\"#cfe8f4346e2b71ca7\" href=\"#cfe8f4346e2b71ca7\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\"> Spirituality and Abolition<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"cfe8f4346e2b71ca7\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_cfe8f4346e2b71ca7\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Virtual Event on May 22, 2023 1:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/SpiritualityAbolition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View Event<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GkzbDLnwLGM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"em-content_about\">\n<div class=\"em-about_description\">\n<p><b>Abolition can be a spiritual practice, a spiritual journey, and a spiritual commitment. What does abolition entail and how can we get there as a collective and improvisational project?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To posit the spirituality of abolition is to consider the ways historical and contemporary movements against slavery; prisons; the wage system; animal and earth exploitation; racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence; and the death penalty necessitate epistemologies that have been foreclosed through violent force by Western philosophical and theological thought. It is also to claim that the material conditions that will produce abolition are necessarily Black, Indigenous, queer and trans, feminist, and also about disabled and other non-conforming bodies in force and verve.<\/p>\n<p><i>Spirituality<\/i>\u00a0<i>and<\/i> <i>Abolition <\/i>asks: what can prison abolition teach us about spiritual practice, spiritual journey, spiritual commitment? And, what can these things underscore about the struggle for abolition as a desired manifestation of material change in the worlds we currently inhabit? Collecting writings, poetry, and art from thinkers, organizers, and incarcerated people, the editors trace the importance of faith and spirit in our ongoing struggle towards abolitionist horizons.<\/p>\n<p><b>Book launch panel discussion with<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Ashon Crawley <\/b>(Editor) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press), an investigation of aesthetics and performance as modes of collective, social imagination and The Lonely Letters, an exploration of the interrelation of Blackness, mysticism, quantum mechanics and love, to be published with Duke University Press in 2020. He is currently working on a third book, tentatively titled \u201cMade Instrument,\u201d about the role of the Hammond Organ in the institutional and historic Black Church, in Black sacred practice and in Black social life more broadly. All his work is about otherwise possibility<\/p>\n<p><b>Peter Kline <\/b>(Contributor) is the Academic Dean and Lecturer in Systematic Theology at St Francis College, University of Divinity. He is the author of Passion for Nothing: Kierkegaard\u2019s Apophatic Theology (Fortress Press, 2017)<\/p>\n<p><b>Andrew Krinks <\/b>(Contributor) Andrew Krinks is an educator, writer, scholar, and movement builder working at the intersections of racial justice, religion, criminalization, and abolition in Nashville, Tennessee. He teaches college and seminary courses on theology, ministry, social justice, carcerality, and abolition, and conducts participatory action research on the impacts of prisons and policing. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Initiative for Race Research and Justice at Vanderbilt University. His book\u00a0<i>White Property, Black Trespass: The Religion of Mass Criminalization<\/i>\u00a0will be published by New York University Press in 2024. He organizes with the Nashville People\u2019s Budget Coalition for a world of abundance and safety beyond cops, courts, and cages.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jasmine Syedullah <\/b>(Contributor) is a black feminist theorist of abolitionist movement scholarship as well as coauthor of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation (North Atlantic Books, 2016). She joined the faculty of Vassar College in 2019 and holds Africana Studies\u2019 first Assistant Professor line there. In addition to teaching, she advises the development of Prison Studies curriculum and programming. Her current book project centers the truant emancipation and timecraft of Harriet Jacobs\u2019s 1861 abolitionist narrative as a protofeminist foundation for critical carceral race and gender studies.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jared Ware<\/b> (Contributor) is a cohost and producer of the podcast Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, which covers revolutionary history, social movements, and political theory. He was a member of the media relations team for the 2018 National Prison Strike. He is also a freelance journalist covering prisoner movements and abolitionist struggles.<\/p>\n<p><b>Moderated by <\/b>Dylan Rodriguez and Malav Kanuga (Common Notions Press)<\/p>\n<p><b>**Copies of the book available as door prizes for attendees!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-5a67aa421d9f404a8 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_5a67aa421d9f404a8\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"5a67aa421d9f404a8\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-2\" data-target=\"#5a67aa421d9f404a8\" href=\"#5a67aa421d9f404a8\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">The Inedible Plate: On Caste, Race, and Food Politics<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"5a67aa421d9f404a8\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_5a67aa421d9f404a8\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Virtual Event on May 24, 2023 at 10am\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/InediblePlate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View Event<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"em-content_about\">\n<div class=\"em-about_description\">\n<div class=\"em-content_about\">\n<div class=\"em-about_description\">\n<p>Join us, on Wednesday May 24th at 10 AM PST, for a virtual screening of the documentary film,\u00a0<i>Caste on the Menu Card<\/i>,\u00a0which delves into the idea of food as a site of exclusion by focusing on beef-eating practices in Mumbai and portrays concerns related to livelihood, brahmanical social inclusion and human rights. Apart from tracing the mythological and historical roots of the meat-eating culture in India, the film also discusses the\u00a0political economy of the leather and meat industries. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Atul Anand, one of the filmmakers, and Rajyashri Goody, moderated by Dr. Shaista Aziz Patel.<\/p>\n<p><b>Atul Anand\u00a0<\/b>is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and writer, working on issues of caste, migration, labour, civil rights, and anti-caste culture. They hold an MA in Media and Cultural Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Their film Caste on the Menu Card has been showcased at numerous locations, both domestically and abroad. Atul will speak about their personal experience of creating the film, as well as stories about caste and food that emerged after the film&#8217;s screenings. They will also share their ambitious proposal on how to dismantle the caste hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rajyashri Goody<\/b>, a scholar and artist from Pune, India, currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, holds a BA in Sociology and an MA in Visual Anthropology.\u00a0Her artistic practice is informed by her academic background and her Ambedkarite roots. She is interested in creating space and time for thinking through everyday instances of Dalit resistance, and incorporates reading, writing, ceramics, photography, printmaking, and installation in the hope that these mediums enable further conversations about caste and hierarchies.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society, UCR Dance, UCR Religious Studies and\u00a0Holstein\u00a0Family and Community Endowed Chair, UCR Performing Difference Working Group, UCLA Center for India and South Asia, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, UCSD Department of Ethnic Studies, UCSD Department of History<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-9d91a00cded6d453f fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_9d91a00cded6d453f\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"9d91a00cded6d453f\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-2\" data-target=\"#9d91a00cded6d453f\" href=\"#9d91a00cded6d453f\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">On Violence: Experimental Study Sequence<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"9d91a00cded6d453f\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_9d91a00cded6d453f\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"em-content_about\">\n<div class=\"em-about_description\">\n<p>Join us for a sequence of conversations with authors of key texts addressing violence, empire, liberation, solidarity, abolition, and the problem of \u201cMan\u201d\/human. These short (60-75 minute) sessions will be led by students of MCS 201 (Racial-Colonial [State] Violence) at UC Riverside, taught by Prof. Dylan Rodr\u00edguez. Online participants will have opportunities to engage with authors during the sessions, to whatever extent time permits. This is an experiment. We hope you will read the authors\u2019 work prior to each study meeting, but as importantly, we aspire to cultivate a sense of intellectual collaboration, curiosity, and activated thought.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors: UCR&#8217;s\u00a0Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Initiative\u00a0&amp; the\u00a0Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative\u00a0at the Center for Ideas and Society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/DecarceratingDisability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 11, 2023 | Liat Ben-Moshe, On Decarcerating Disability<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/h6HI9lKzjho?si=nghwdCM9mrI4BdjK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/Walia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 31, 2023 | Harsha Walia &#8211; Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/Nguyen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 8, 2023 | Nicole Nguyen &#8211; <u>Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/Weber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 15, 2023 | Benjamin Weber &#8211;\u00a0<u>American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration<\/u><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IxzW9D_JIfc?si=Vh4Dkf26JFFP8CUJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/Bennett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 22, 2023 | Joshua Bennett &#8211;\u00a0<u>Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man<\/u><\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NHjdJjW5AfA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/spade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 29, 2023 | Dean Spade &#8211;\u00a0<u>Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the next)<\/u><\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/txyE8IQwGPI?si=BRsayapLQhbtLv6V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/anderson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2023 | William C. Anderson &#8211;\u00a0The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-ebd476ee62ae65b0c fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_ebd476ee62ae65b0c\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"ebd476ee62ae65b0c\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-2\" data-target=\"#ebd476ee62ae65b0c\" href=\"#ebd476ee62ae65b0c\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Abolishing California (Prison) Slavery: Roundtable With Formerly Incarcerated Activists and Organizers<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"ebd476ee62ae65b0c\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_ebd476ee62ae65b0c\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"em-content_about\">\n<div class=\"em-about_description\">\n<p><strong>Virtual Event on December 15, 2023 at 12pm\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/AbolishingCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View Event<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is the significance of the section of the California Constitution that states, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CONS&amp;division=&amp;title=&amp;part=&amp;chapter=&amp;article=I\"><u>Involuntary servitude is prohibited <\/u><i><u>except to punish crime<\/u><\/i><\/a>?\u201d This roundtable with formerly incarcerated organizers, lobbyists, teachers, and students will discuss and debate the notion of \u201cprison slavery,\u201d with specific attention to a mounting campaign to abolish the \u201cexception clause\u201d from the California Constitution. What are the possibilities and pitfalls of an organizing project that focuses on involuntary and\/or virtually uncompensated prison labor? What lessons can be learned from nominally successful efforts to eliminate prison slave labor in other states? Does the struggle to pass <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA8\"><u>ACA 8 (a proposed Constitutional amendment)<\/u><\/a> help or hinder efforts to decarcerate and\/or abolish the California carceral regime?<\/p>\n<p>Join activists from All Of Us Or None, Starting Over, Legal Services For Prisoners With Children, and other organizations for this urgent discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Free, online, no registration required<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/82331843234\">Join Stream<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Roundtable participants:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Jeronimo Cuauhtemoc Aguilar (Legal Services For Prisoners With Children)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Bobbie Butts (All Of Us Or None)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Fidel Chagolla (Starting Over, All Of Us Or None)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Shaun Leflore (All Of Us Or None)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Laine May (Starting Over)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Henry Ortiz (Legal Services For Prisoners With Children)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Facilitated by Dylan Rodriguez, Professor (Departments of Black Study and Media &amp; Cultural Studies), Co-Director of Center for Ideas and Society<\/p>\n<p>Co-Sponsored by UCR Underground Scholars, the Decolonizing Humanism(?) Programming Stream at the UCR Center for Ideas and Society, and the UCR Health Humanities and Disability Justice Initiative<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-524c2d178f2589184 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_524c2d178f2589184\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"524c2d178f2589184\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-2\" data-target=\"#524c2d178f2589184\" href=\"#524c2d178f2589184\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">What's \u2018Genocide\u2019 in 2024? A Roundtable with Former U.S. Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"524c2d178f2589184\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_524c2d178f2589184\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/muntaqim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>May 14, 2024 at 3pm | HMNSS 1500<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/clPc1JN0kao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>This roundtable features teacher, writer, organizer, and longtime U.S. political prisoner\u00a0<b>Jalil Muntaqim<\/b>, a founder of the Jericho Movement and veteran member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. Jalil will discuss the Peoples\u2019 Senate, a project of revolutionary self-determination intended to create alternative systems of socio-economic and political order. Roundtable discussants will include author, activist, and longtime KPFK (Los Angeles) radio host\u00a0<b>Thandi Chimurenga<\/b>, All of Us or None organizer\u00a0<b>Shaun Leflore<\/b>, and UCR\u00a0<b>Professor<\/b>\u00a0<b>Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/b>, with introductory remarks by\u00a0<b>Dr. Ar\u00f3n Montenegro<\/b>, UC President&#8217;s Postdoctoral Fellow.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society, UCR Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Initiative, and the Blackness Unbound Faculty Commons Group.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-d4f9f272d6d307a65 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_d4f9f272d6d307a65\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"d4f9f272d6d307a65\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-2\" data-target=\"#d4f9f272d6d307a65\" href=\"#d4f9f272d6d307a65\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"d4f9f272d6d307a65\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_d4f9f272d6d307a65\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/PinkyHota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>April 30, 2024 12pm | Virtual Event<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Book talk with Dr. Pinky Hota<\/p>\n<p>Informed by critical caste and race, and gender and sexuality approaches, Pinky Hota\u2019s research examines right wing politics in conversation with contemporary capitalism. Her first book entitled\u00a0<i>The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India<\/i>\u00a0(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) speaks to the global rise of right-wing ethnonationalist politics in response to gains made by minorities amidst widespread economic uncertainty. The book locates violence between two minority groups\u2014one classified as indigenous (adivasi) and the other as a marginalized caste category, Dalit\u2014in the long dur\u00e9e of caste capitalism by showing how adivasi indigeneity operates as a fulcrum of caste capitalism that facilitates the legal, political\u00a0and ultimately, economic exclusion, of Dalits in India. Doing so, it shows how emergent forms of right wing politics must be understood with recourse to long standing relationships between religion and political economy, caste and race, and hierarchies of racial capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the UC Collective for Caste Abolition. Cosponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and the Decolonizing Humanism(?) initiative.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-3824a8f7267cca279 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_3824a8f7267cca279\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"3824a8f7267cca279\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-2\" data-target=\"#3824a8f7267cca279\" href=\"#3824a8f7267cca279\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">On Violence: Fall 2024 Experimental Study Sequence<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"3824a8f7267cca279\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_3824a8f7267cca279\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"em-content_about\">\n<div class=\"em-about_description\">\n<p>Part of the Decolonizing Humanism(?) programming stream at the UCR Center for Ideas and Society<\/p>\n<p>Join us for a sequence of live\u00a0<span class=\"markq04pf6cm9\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">on<\/span>line conversations with authors of key texts addressing\u00a0<span class=\"marksx3d16cik\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">violence<\/span>, empire, liberation, solidarity, abolition, and the problem of \u201cMan\u201d\/human. These short (60-80 minute) sessions will be led by students of MCS 201 (Racial-Colonial [State]\u00a0<span class=\"marksx3d16cik\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Violence<\/span>) at UC Riverside, taught by Prof. Dylan Rodr\u00edguez.\u00a0<span class=\"markq04pf6cm9\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">On<\/span>line participants will have opportunities to engage with authors during the sessions, to whatever extent time permits. This is an experiment. We hope you will read the authors\u2019 work prior to each study meeting, but as importantly, we aspire to cultivate a sense of intellectual collaboration, curiosity, and activated thought. Participation is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule of conversations (all will take place between 3:30-4:50 p.m. PST)<\/p>\n<p>Oct 21 | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4vFYlJ81uK4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Stanley, <i>Atmospheres of\u00a0<span class=\"marksx3d16cik\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Violence<\/span>: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans\/Queer Ungovernable<\/i>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oct 28 | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lP-9YD3Y4EY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cristina Visperas,\u00a0<i>Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nov 4 | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/T3t16JLEe_s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shana Redmond,\u00a0<i>Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson\u00a0<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nov 18 | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mWR_0894BWk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Haley,\u00a0<i>No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity\u00a0<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nov 25 | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CSCXuz8uY4M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H. L. T. Quan, <i>Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dec 2 | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rSutM0aMJ5I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Damien Sojoyner,\u00a0<i>Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h2>Collaborations and Community Engagement Beyond UCR<\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"accordian fusion-accordian\" style=\"--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:14px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#628ac7;--awb-content-color:#747474;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#126eb3;--awb-title-font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;--awb-title-font-weight:regular;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:15px;--awb-title-line-height:1.54;--awb-content-font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;\"><div class=\"panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed\" id=\"accordion-14252-3\"><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-c37d1e5b1cfd33bab fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_c37d1e5b1cfd33bab\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"c37d1e5b1cfd33bab\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#c37d1e5b1cfd33bab\" href=\"#c37d1e5b1cfd33bab\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">UCLA Racial Violence Hub <\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"c37d1e5b1cfd33bab\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_c37d1e5b1cfd33bab\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Genocide Management: Carceral Reformism, Policing, Sexual Violence and the Role of Law<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Virtual Event on \u00a0Friday, December 3, 2021 at 1:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ennV5rWpWDY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH VIDEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5th Annual Racial Violence Hub Workshop: Feminist Approaches to Theorizing Genocidal Violence, Wars and Occupations, a series of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/racialviolencehub.com\/\">The Racial Violence Hub\u00a0<\/a>and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> is an abolitionist teacher,scholar, collaborator, Professor at UC Riverside,and the Co-Director of the Center for Ideas and Society. His most recent book is White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press,2021).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Sherene H. Razack<\/strong> is a Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women\u2019s Studies in the Department of Gender Studies,UCLA. She is the founder of the virtual research and teaching network the Racial Violence Hub.<\/p>\n<p>Commentators:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva<\/strong> is a Professor at the University of British Columbia and a practicing artist. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), A D\u00edvida Impagavel (2019), and Unpayable Debt (forthcoming).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Leslie Thielen-Wilson<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor and Faculty of Arts and Science in the Gender Equality and Social Justice at Nipissing University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-829ebd710ae7b0cbb fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_829ebd710ae7b0cbb\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"829ebd710ae7b0cbb\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#829ebd710ae7b0cbb\" href=\"#829ebd710ae7b0cbb\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Black Studies Collaboratory<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"829ebd710ae7b0cbb\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_829ebd710ae7b0cbb\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>\u201cGenocide, Antiblackness, + the Pornographic: The Urgency of Black Autonomy and Abolitionist Activism\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Virtual Event on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 @ 1:00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Decolonizing Humanism(?) Stream at the Center for Ideas and Society (CIS, UC Riverside) and The Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC, UC Berkeley) invite you to join us to discuss black communities\u2019 experiences across public schools, professional pornography, and everyday spaces. These sites will be placed within the context of U.S. antiblack policing, captivity, and ultimate genocide to prompt an apt discussion about the libidinal, political, and pornographic economies of these disciplinary structures in slavery\u2019s afterlife. This critical meditation will also explore the urgency of black autonomy and abolitionist activism as strategies aimed to rattle and raze these economies, structures, and settler\/slaver\/colonial\/civil society in its totality. Tending to black pleasure, joy, and life as well as black pain, suffering, and death, this dynamic conversation sketches the im\/possibilities of a post-apocalyptic social world revolving around the affirmation of blackness.<\/p>\n<p>This event is co-sponsored by UC Riverside\u2019s Decolonizing(?) Humanism Initiative and part of UC Berkeley\u2019s BSC Abolition Democracy Spring Speaker Series. Joining us for conversation will be: Savannah Shange, author of Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco (2019); Connie Wun, author of \u201cAgainst Captivity: Black Girls and School Discipline Policies in the Afterlife of Slavery\u201d (2015); Damien M. Sojoyner, author of First Strike: Educational Enclosures of Black Los Angeles (2016); Dylan Rodr\u00edguez, author of most recently published book, White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide (2020); and BSC Abolition Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow, Peace And Love El Henson, author of dissertation, \u201cRace, Power, and the Pornographic: Naughty Black Femme Schoolgirls in Interracial Pornography, Publics Schools, and Policing Encounters\u201d (2021).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Savannah Shange<\/strong> is assistant professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and also serves as principal faculty in Critical Race &amp; Ethnic Studies. Her research interests include gentrification, multiracial coalition, ethnographic ethics, Black femme gender, and abolition. She earned a PhD in Africana Studies and Education from the University of Pennsylvania, a MAT from Tufts University, and a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Her first book, Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Anti-Blackness and Schooling in San Francisco (Duke 2019) is an ethnography of the afterlife of slavery as lived in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connie Wun<\/strong>, PhD is a co-founder of AAPI Women Lead. She also leads national research projects on race, gender and violence. Connie is a 2020 Soros Justice Fellow and has received numerous awards including National Science Foundation fellowship. Her research has been published in academic journals, anthologies and online platforms. She is also a former high school teacher, college educator, and sexual assault counselor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Damien M. Sojoyner<\/strong> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He researches the relationship among the public education system, prisons, and the construction of Black masculinity in Southern California. He teaches several courses including Black Political Theory in the United States, Prisons and Public Education, and Black Public Culture. His upcoming book, Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums will be published by the University of California Press in the Fall of 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> is an abolitionist teacher, scholar, and collaborator. He was named a Freedom Scholar in 2020 and recently served as President of the American Studies Association (2020-2021). He has worked as a Professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2001. Prior to being elected by the faculty to two terms as Chair of the UCR Academic Senate (2016-2020), Dylan served as Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies (2009-2016). Dylan is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peace And Love El Henson<\/strong>, Ph.D. is a black feminist urban ethnographer and critical porn studies analyst. She does research and teaching as a Black Studies Collaboratory Abolition Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow in the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley. Broadly, Peace And Love primarily focuses on black queer femmes, genocide, abolition, autonomy, urban\/ethnography, and pornography. Her in-progress book manuscript is tentatively titled, On Erotic Mastery: Black Femmes, Pornography, and U.S. State Encounters. Fun fact: Amidst all fray, Peace And Love finds joy in mastering herself as an intergalactic thinker, writer, and creative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/genocide_antiblackness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-d2a888be3bca34308 fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_d2a888be3bca34308\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"d2a888be3bca34308\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#d2a888be3bca34308\" href=\"#d2a888be3bca34308\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">(Un)disciplining Study: Convivial Research Methods, Counter-Expressions, Otherwise<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"d2a888be3bca34308\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_d2a888be3bca34308\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"box_image grid_4\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Apr-11-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-15054 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Apr-11-image-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Apr-11-image-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Apr-11-image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Apr-11-image.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>April 11 @ 12pm PST<br \/>\n<\/strong>Virtual Event<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TFNNs8Ijpwc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH VIDEO<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"box_content vevent grid_8\">\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>Interested in convivial research methods? Or how (un)disciplining study shapes the potential for knowledge-making and learning within the neoliberal university? Come join us for this event as panelists draw on decolonial thinking, black feminisms, and abolition scholarship to underscore the irony in conviviality and its abuse as a colonizing tool. The panelists will share their ideas about conviviality in doing inquiry and interventions in critical anti-violence research. They will also offer examples of insurgent opportunities against coded formations of diversity and intersections of violence at the university and beyond. In pushing possibilities for method-making and counter-expressions are ways toward an otherwise praxis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Host\/Co-Facilitator:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> (Center for Ideas &amp; Society, UCR) is an abolitionist teacher, scholar, and collaborator. He was named a Freedom Scholar in 2020 and recently served as President of the American Studies Association (2020-2021). He has worked as a Professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2001. Prior to being elected by the faculty to two terms as Chair of the UCR Academic Senate (2016-2020), Dylan served as Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies (2009-2016). Dylan is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facilitator\/Co-Panelist<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<strong>Korina Jocson<\/strong> (Education, UMass Amherst) is an associate professor of education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches courses on critical methodologies, youth studies, and pedagogy. Her scholarship draws on the humanistic social sciences to illuminate youth\u2019s cultural practices and how global flows of information, people, and ideas have the potential to shape pedagogical possibilities. Korina is the author of two monographs, including Youth Media Matters: Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education, and a forthcoming book on race, gender, and technology at the school-work nexus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Collaborative for Global Studies and Transformative Education UnderCommons Constellation (UC2)<\/i><br \/>\n<strong>Cee Carter<\/strong> (Education, UMass Amherst) is a newly minted PhD in education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Applying the theoretical lessons of Black Feminist Thought, Cee rethinks the limits of educational mandates. Cee\u2019s scholarship reconceptualizes approaches to educational equity to guide shifts in teaching and research practices. Most recently, Cee\u2019s work traces how educational justice for youth of color is regulated through raciality, economy, and policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mariam Rashid<\/strong> (Education, UMass Amherst) is a PhD Candidate in education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research interests are in refugee resettlement policies and practices in the United States. In her current work, she explores how colonial, gendered, and racialized resettlement policies facilitate the dispossession of African refugees resettled in the U.S. from East and Central Africa. Her inquiry draws on Black Studies, feminist thought and diasporic feminisms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benjamin Scherrer<\/strong> (Education, UMass Amherst) is a PhD Candidate in education and W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work draws from Black Studies, river and wetland ecology, and critical cartographic practices. Through archival study, his current project disrupts disciplined climate change education by retelling flooding and catastrophe in the American South.<\/p>\n<p><i>Critical Anti-Violence Research and Action Working Group (CARA)<\/i><br \/>\n<strong>Sneha George<\/strong> (Ethnic Studies, UCR) is a PhD Candidate in ethnic studies at the University of California Riverside. She received an M.A. in international relations at The New School, New York, and a B.A. in women\u2019s studies and world history at the State University of New York in Albany. Sneha is currently a feminist and queer of color theorist whose dissertation work is on South Asian Studies critique, and other worldly possibilities through communal and relational self-reflexivity as praxis and being.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romina Garcia<\/strong> (Ethnic Studies, UCR) is a PhD candidate in the department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. As a doctoral student, Romina\u2019s research focuses on examining the structural and administrative antiblack violence that encompasses women of color, in particular, Black women within anti-violence work. She is a founding member of CARA &#8211; Critical Anti-Violence Research and Action which is a UC based collective that converges thought and action to end racialized gendered violence through an abolitionist and decolonial feminist approach. She is the author of All Canned Foods are Expired but Still Edible: A Critique of Anti-Violence Advocacy and the Perpetuation of AntiBlackness which unpacks the carceral treatment experienced by Black women victim\/survivors navigating domestic violence non-profit advocacy services in her hometown of Chicago<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cinthya Martinez<\/strong> (Ethnic Studies, UCR) is a first-generation PhD candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her dissertation titled, \u201cFreedom is a Place: Abolitionist Possibilities in Migrant Women\u2019s Refusals,\u201d draws from border\/immigration studies, critical carceral studies, and feminist theory to examine how migrant women refuse and resist the historical, discursive, and epistemic erasure of gendered violence in ICE immigrant detention centers. Her dissertation is focused on Adelanto ICE Detention Center, where she also organizes and volunteers to support migrants fighting their asylum cases. Cinthya employs an archival and ethnographic analysis to resituate detained migrant women\u2019s writings as anti-carceral and feminist abolitionist praxes that counter the state\u2019s diligent efforts to conceal gendered violence from the historical record. Through a critical reading of migrant women\u2019s hunger strike demands and personal correspondences, she locates migrant women as authors of abolitionist praxis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sponsored by Decolonizing Humanism(?), Center for Ideas and Society, CARA Working Group and the Department of Media and Cultural Studies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-ffed6eb8ce483a4ce fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_ffed6eb8ce483a4ce\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"ffed6eb8ce483a4ce\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#ffed6eb8ce483a4ce\" href=\"#ffed6eb8ce483a4ce\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Imagining America-Center for Ideas and Society Collaboration<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"ffed6eb8ce483a4ce\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_ffed6eb8ce483a4ce\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p>Invited focus group of CIS Faculty Commons participants in conversation with Prof. Erica Kohl-Arenas, Director of Imagining America.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-45a7aa594aa98642c fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_45a7aa594aa98642c\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"45a7aa594aa98642c\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#45a7aa594aa98642c\" href=\"#45a7aa594aa98642c\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">The Afterlife of the American Empire<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"45a7aa594aa98642c\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_45a7aa594aa98642c\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Virtual event on April 14 at 6:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zjj8DjdDN8k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH VIDEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This panel examines the role of the American Empire in the Philippines including the Philippine American War, the role of education in colonization, the institutionalization of white supremacy, and how American imperialism continues to shape the lived experiences of Filipinos in the Philippines and the United States today. Panelists will engage these issues through an intersectional perspective and with various disciplinary approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n<p><b>Neferti X. M. Tadiar<\/b>\u00a0is Professor of Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of the books, Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (2009) and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order (2004). Her new book, Remaindered Life (Duke University Press, 2022), is an extended meditation on the disposability and surplus of life-making under contemporary conditions of global empire. Professor Tadiar is the Director of the Alfredo F. Tadiar Library in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ricky Punzalan<\/b>\u00a0is an associate professor in the University of Michigan School of Information. His research and teaching focus on archives and digital curation. He conducts community-based, participatory research to understand access to digitized anthropological archives and ethnographic legacy data by academic and community users. He currently co-directs ReConnect\/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan, a project that develops the framework for, and the practice of, reparative work for Philippine collections acquired by the University during the U.S. colonial period. His work has been published in American Archivist, Archival Science, Archivaria, International Journal of Digital Curation, and Library Quarterly.<\/p>\n<p><b>Nerissa S. Balce<\/b>\u00a0is a cultural studies scholar. She is an Associate professor of Asian American studies at SUNY Stony Brook. Balce is the author of the book, Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images and the American Archive (University of Michigan Press 2016 and Ateneo de Manila University Press 2017). Her current research focuses on visual culture, fiction, and the afterlives of empire and authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p><b>Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/b>\u00a0is a teacher, scholar, and collaborator who works with and within abolitionist and other radical communities and movements. Since 2001, he has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California, Riverside, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Center for Ideas and Society. His peers elected him President of the American Studies Association for 2020-2021, and in 2020 he was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars. Dylan is the author of three books, including White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021) and Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by\u00a0UC Berkeley APASD, AARC, E&amp;I, Cal Alumni Association, Pilipinx American Alumni Chapter; UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society&#8217;s Decolonizing Humanism(?) Stream<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-631ccf9b8f7fff56c fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_631ccf9b8f7fff56c\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"631ccf9b8f7fff56c\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#631ccf9b8f7fff56c\" href=\"#631ccf9b8f7fff56c\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Zionism and Higher Education: Academic Freedom and Dissent<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"631ccf9b8f7fff56c\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_631ccf9b8f7fff56c\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p class=\"dateright\"><strong><abbr class=\"dtstart\" title=\"2022-05-06T15:00:00-07:00\">May 6 at 3:00pm<\/abbr><abbr class=\"dtend\" title=\"2022-05-06T17:00:00-07:00\"><br \/>\n<\/abbr>Hybrid Event<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>CHASS Interdisciplinary South 1113 or Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Register:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/SPJ_Zionism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/SPJ_Zionism<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>A Panel on Zionism and Higher Education: Academic Freedom and Dissent<\/p>\n<p>What is Zionism and what are its implications for university education and academic freedom? How does Zionism impact university policies, administrators and curriculum? How does Zionism as a modern ideology relate to racism, religion, Judaism and anti-Semitism? How do Palestinians experience Zionism on campuses and beyond? This panel brings together Jewish and Palestinian scholars and activists to address these questions to advance dialog and understanding.<\/p>\n<p><b>Speakers:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tallie Ben-Daniel, Jewish Voice for Peace, Managing Director<br \/>\nTaher Herzallah (American Muslims for Palestine)<br \/>\nJennifer Mogganam (UC Davis)<br \/>\nJeff Sacks (UC Riverside), Comparative Literature<br \/>\nKeith Camacho (UCLA)<br \/>\nModerated by Setsu Shigematsu<\/p>\n<p><b>Co-sponsors:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>UCR Center for Ideas and Society, Decolonizing Humanism(?) Stream<br \/>\nUCLA Asian American Studies<br \/>\nUCR Comparative Literature<br \/>\nUCR Media &amp; Cultural Studies<br \/>\nUCR English Department<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-138a0f4c3b2ddb471 fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_138a0f4c3b2ddb471\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"138a0f4c3b2ddb471\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#138a0f4c3b2ddb471\" href=\"#138a0f4c3b2ddb471\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Uncommon Emergency: A Roundtable on the Invasion of Ukraine, Border Violence, War, and (Un)Shared Suffering<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"138a0f4c3b2ddb471\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_138a0f4c3b2ddb471\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Virtual Event on March 9 at 12:00pm\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8LNkyNtVk2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH VIDEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do Russia\u2019s current and ongoing attacks on Ukrainian sovereignty create\/exacerbate disparate and even incomparable suffering for different communities and people in the region and beyond? What does the contemporary global history of border militarism, criminalization, xenophobia, sanctions and policing teach us about the complex, differential casualties created by this metastasizing crisis? How can we attend to the experiences of Black\/African, Roma, nonwhite European, migrant\/refugee and other populations experiencing conditions of war, displacement and gendered state violence within and beyond the Ukraine-Russia border and Eastern Europe writ large?<\/p>\n<p>This event will speak to Eastern Europe\u2019s role in the formation of global ethnoracial regimes and discuss how this compels an analysis of the complex, pervasive impact of gendered white supremacy in Europe and globally in relation to the current moment of crisis in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Roundtable conversation with<\/p>\n<p>Chelsi West Ohueri (Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Univ. of Texas-Austin)<\/p>\n<p>Sunnie Rucker-Chang (Slavic and East European Studies Program Director, University of Cincinnati)<\/p>\n<p>SA Smythe (African American Studies, UCLA)<\/p>\n<p>Suzy Kim (Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University)<\/p>\n<p>Harsha Walia (Activist, Organizer, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism)<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa E. Thompson (Gender Studies, Queen\u2019s University)<\/p>\n<p>Kenan Emini (Roma Antidiscrimination Network)<\/p>\n<p>Moderated by Crystal Baik (Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies, UCR) and Dylan Rodr\u00edguez (Media &amp; Cultural Studies, UCR).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-ec33e2d21d270a655 fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_ec33e2d21d270a655\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"ec33e2d21d270a655\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#ec33e2d21d270a655\" href=\"#ec33e2d21d270a655\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Duende: The Deep Song<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"ec33e2d21d270a655\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_ec33e2d21d270a655\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>2021-2022 Department of Creative Writing Closing Event<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Virtual Event on June 2 10:30am\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the new UCR Department of Black Study<\/p>\n<p>Register FREE: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/Duende_Jun2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/Duende_Jun2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Award-winning poet\u00a0Quincy Troupe\u00a0wrote\u00a0the definitive biography of\u00a0Miles Davis,\u00a0Miles: the Autobiography;\u00a0The Pursuit of Happyness,\u00a0and\u00a0a\u00a0memoir,\u00a0miles &amp; me,\u00a0soon to be a major motion picture. Author of 20 books,\u00a0he also conducted the last interview with James Baldwin\u00a0republished\u00a0most recently in English as\u00a0James Baldwin:\u00a0The Last Interview\u00a0&amp; Other Conversations\u00a0(Melville House, 2014). Troupe\u2019s\u00a0work has\u00a0been translated into 30 languages.\u00a0His most recent book of poetry is\u00a0Duende:\u00a0Poems,\u00a01966 \u2013 Now\u00a0(Seven Stories Press, January 2022).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Porter Troupe\u00a0is a writer and editor. She is the founding director of the Harlem Arts Salon and The Gloster Arts Project, bringing the arts to children in rural Mississippi or wherever they may be.\u00a0theglosterartsproject.org<\/p>\n<p>Will Calhoun is a two time Grammy winner with the genre bending iconic Rock band LIVING COLOUR. He\u2019s Produced Herb Alpert (Colors CD), Mos Def (Black Jack Johnson Project). Toured and recorded with Harry Belafonte, Caiphus Semenya, Letta M\u2019bulu,<\/p>\n<div>Mick Jagger, B.B. King, McCoy Tyner, Mahmoud Ginea, Marcus Miller, Pharoah Sanders, Wayne Shorter (Highlife CD), Oumou Sangare, Ron Carter, Phillip Glass, Lauryn Hill, Stanley Jordan, Ritchie Sambora, Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def, Public Enemy, Mike Stern, Mustapha Bakbou, Jaco Pastorius, Steve Via, Paul Simon, Lou Reed,\u00a0and many others.<\/div>\n<p>Tyehimba Jess, a Cave Canem and NYU Alumni, is the author of two books of poetry<\/p>\n<p>Leadbelly\u00a0and\u00a0Olio.\u00a0Olio\u00a0won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author\u2019s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.\u00a0It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.\u00a0Leadbelly\u00a0was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. The\u00a0Library Journal\u00a0and\u00a0Black Issues Book Review\u00a0both named it one of the \u201cBest Poetry Books of 2005.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keith Gilyard has written and lectured extensively on language and literacy for over 30 years. Two-time recipient of an American Book Award, Keith Gilyard has passionately embraced African American expressive culture over the course of his career as a poet, scholar, and educator.<\/p>\n<p>Gilyard has authored, edited, or co-edited twenty books, including the education memoir Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence\u00a0(1991), the poetry collections\u00a0American Forty\u00a0(1993) and\u00a0Poemographies\u00a0(2001), as well as\u00a0the novella\u00a0The Next Great Old-School Conspiracy\u00a0(2016).<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the UCR Department of Creative Writing. Co-sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) stream at the Center for Ideas and Society.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-b26ab0fe9c281991c fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_b26ab0fe9c281991c\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"b26ab0fe9c281991c\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#b26ab0fe9c281991c\" href=\"#b26ab0fe9c281991c\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Menino 111: a lecture performance about antiblackness<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"b26ab0fe9c281991c\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_b26ab0fe9c281991c\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>With Aline Serzedello Vila\u00e7a<br \/>\nEvent on October 11, 2022 at 7pm<br \/>\nCHASS INTS 1111<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"desc_bigger\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/Menino111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Schedule<\/b><\/p>\n<p>7:00 pm &#8211; Lecture Performance<br \/>\n8:00 pm &#8211; Discussion<\/p>\n<p><b>About the event<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The lecture performance \u201cMenino 111\u201d reminds us about the Rio de Janeiro police shooting and murdering of five young black males with a hundred and eleven gun shots in 2015. Through Jazz Dance and contemporary black performance aesthetics, the goal is to discuss antiblackness, its concept, the impact on every day life and question how arts can create an anti-antiblackness epistemology, aesthetic, theory and practice &#8211; or at least discuss it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Speaker Bio<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Aline Serzedello Vila\u00e7a is a 33 year old Black Brazilian jazzwoman. Mother, Dancer, choreographer, researcher and teacher with a BA and Licenciature in Dance from the Federal University of Vi\u00e7osa\/MG\/Brazil, an MA in Ethnical and racial relationships from CEFET\/RJ\/Brazil, and another MA in Popular Culture from Federal University of Sergipe\/SE\/Brazil. Now, Aline is finishing her PhD dissertation in Performance Arts from University of S\u00e3o Paulo\/SP\/Brazil and also doing part of her research at UCR. Her interests are Jazz, Black history, afro diaspora studies, social justice, racism, antiblackness\u00a0and slavery studies.<\/p>\n<p>This event is a part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/decolonizinghumanism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiatitive\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cosponsored by UCR Center for Ideas and Society,\u00a0Decolonizing Humanism(?), Asian Pacific Student Programs, Chicano Student Programs, Department of Black Study, and Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recordings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UKIH5tMF9VM?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nJAvXEQAsrk?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XfbuWciu-2g?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL4yVXgaYlqF8jBRRjm2penbVZWoDoK19J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-43bac16d229d53afd fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_43bac16d229d53afd\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"43bac16d229d53afd\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#43bac16d229d53afd\" href=\"#43bac16d229d53afd\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Unbreakable Resolve: Building Free-Dem Foundations in New Orleans<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"43bac16d229d53afd\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_43bac16d229d53afd\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>A talk with Jerome Morgan and Robert Jones<br \/>\nEvent on October 18, 2022 at 2pm<br \/>\nCHASS INTS 1111<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"desc_bigger\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/UnbreakableResolve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jerome Morgan and Robert Jones will make a powerful presentation about mass incarceration in New Orleans and their efforts to rescue young people from its grasp through mentoring and community development projects.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan and Jones spent more than forty years combined in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola before they were exonerated and released. While in prison, at a time when it appeared they had no real chance to be free, they made a pact to one day reunite in New Orleans to set up a cooperative business and mentoring program that would serve young people in danger of being swept into jails and prisons. They enrolled in prison education programs, studied law, and learned trades. With the help of allies outside prison walls they won their freedom. Today Morgan and Jones run the Free-Dem Foundations, a non-profit community-based youth organization in New Orleans that fulfills the vision they created while incarcerated. Morgan works as the Dean of School Culture at Rooted School in New Orleans while Jones serves as Director of Community Outreach and Lead Client Advocate at Orleans Public Defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Their presentation will cover their own personal experiences with incarceration that they have delineated in their co-authored book (with Daniel Rideau)\u00a0<i>Unbreakable Resolve<\/i>\u00a0as well as a report on the curriculum, mentoring, business start-up, and apprenticeship programs they are implementing in the work of the Free-Dem Foundations. Morgan will speak about his participation in the collectively written book\u00a0<i>Go To Jail<\/i>, an archive of twenty years of writing by public school students and teachers, people incarcerated in prisons, academics, attorneys, and their community allies.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Decolonizing Humanism(?) and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program at the Center for Ideas and Society, the UCR Graduate Division, and Department of Black Study.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-9ba0293147f02f59b fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_9ba0293147f02f59b\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"9ba0293147f02f59b\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#9ba0293147f02f59b\" href=\"#9ba0293147f02f59b\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">On the Anniversary of the Assassinations of MLK and Lil' Bobby Hutton \u2014A Discussion on Captive Maternals and War Resistance, with Joy James &amp; Kalonji Changa<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"9ba0293147f02f59b\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_9ba0293147f02f59b\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Virtual Event on April 6, 2023 at 3pm<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/MLK_Hutton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eKWf9ibo4qs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH VIDEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please join us for this panel discussion with\u00a0<b>Joy James\u00a0<\/b>(Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities,\u00a0Williams College, author of\u00a0<i>In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love (IPORL)\u00a0<\/i>and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/https\/\/www.parapraxismagazine.com\/articles\/maternal-incoherence\">Maternal (In)Coherence<\/a>&#8220;) and\u00a0<b>Kalonji Changa<\/b>\u00a0(Co-Founder of Black Power Media, Co-Chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute, Co-Founder of FTP Movement)<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Othandwayo Mgqoboka (Ph.D. student, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Riverside)<\/li>\n<li>Brianna Simmons (Ph.D. student, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Riverside)<\/li>\n<li>Laysi Zacarias (Ph.D. student, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Riverside)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facilitated by:<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Rodr\u00edguez (Professor, Dept. of Black Study and Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies, Co-Director of Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside)<\/p>\n<p><b>Links to recent writing and conversations with Joy James and Kalonji Changa:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/J-James-IPORL-Preface-_-Mumia-Afterword.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joy James,\u00a0<i>In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(attached PDF of Preface and Afterword to\u00a0<i>In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/liberalism-counter-revolutionary-interview-kalonji-jama-changa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLiberalism is counter-revolutionary\u201d: An Interview with Kalonji Jama Changa (Black Agenda Report)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ts3TLQ-TrCI\">&#8220;Family, Freedom &amp; Security&#8221; (Samaria Rice, Dawn Wooten, Amanda Wallace,\u00a0Joyce McMillan, moderator\u00a0Joy\u00a0James)\u00a0Reposted by BPM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/v8pwqAjbAlY?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Joy James and Kalonji Changa on \u201cGuerrilla Love\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/G0Oy697haRc?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Guerrilla Intellectuals, Academics and Grifters&#8221; w\/ Joy James, Dylan Rodr\u00edguez and Kalonji Changa\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@BlackPowerMedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Power Media YouTube channel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society, Departments of History, English and Black Study<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-65d5a92b8fae227ce fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_65d5a92b8fae227ce\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"65d5a92b8fae227ce\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#65d5a92b8fae227ce\" href=\"#65d5a92b8fae227ce\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\"> Mothership Connections: Sites of Contention<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"65d5a92b8fae227ce\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_65d5a92b8fae227ce\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Event on May 1, 2023 at 10am<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>CHASS INTS 1113<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/MothershipConnections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View Event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a global capitalism allowed our world to be more connected, it also caused spaces to be compressed and collapsed. Race and geography as a canon as much room to grow in understanding &#8220;sites of contention,&#8221; or spaces and places where geographic contestations are fought.<\/p>\n<p>This event is open to students, faculty, and activists who center post-colonialism, prison abolotion, housing justice, and food justice, and environmental justice.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include:<\/p>\n<p>Janelle Levy, Semassa Boko, Chaz Briscoe, Isabel Gonzales, Deogratius Mshigeni, Rod Martinez, Camille Samuels, and Rojelio Mu\u00f1oz<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-37f37e3b9c6a13e48 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_37f37e3b9c6a13e48\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"37f37e3b9c6a13e48\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#37f37e3b9c6a13e48\" href=\"#37f37e3b9c6a13e48\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Disability Perspectives on Reproductive Justice and Sexual Agency<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"37f37e3b9c6a13e48\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_37f37e3b9c6a13e48\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>A Conversation with Shayda Kafai, Alison Kafer, and Monika Mitra<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/DisabilityPerspectives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Event<\/a> on May 23, 2023 at 3:30pm<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6YsxFxAYMFI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join us for a thought-provoking conversation about current challenges and opportunities in the struggle for reproductive justice and sexual agency for disabled people in the US.<\/p>\n<p><i>ASL interpretation will be provided<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Featured Panelists:<\/p>\n<p>Shayda Kafai (she\/her) is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Ethnic and Women\u2019s Studies department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is the author of <i>Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid <\/i>(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021).<\/p>\n<p>Alison\u00a0Kafer\u00a0is the Embrey Associate Professor of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies and\u00a0English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also directs the LGBTQ Studies program. She co-edited\u00a0<i>Crip Genealogies\u00a0<\/i>(Duke, 2023) with Mel Y. Chen, Julie Avril Minich, and Eunjung Kim, and she is the author of\u00a0<i>Feminist, Queer, Crip<\/i>\u00a0(Indiana, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Monika Mitra is the Nancy Lurie Marks Associate Professor of Disability Policy and Director of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University. Her research examines the health care experiences and health outcomes of people with disabilities, with a focus on the sexual and reproductive health of people with disabilities. She is currently co-leading the National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities, the National\u00a0Center for Disability and Pregnancy Research, the Community Living Policy Center, and the Community Living Equity Center.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator: Katja M. Guenther <a href=\"mailto:katja@ucr.edu\">katja@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society and the UCR Gender and Sexuality Studies Depertment<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-175f852981120a751 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_175f852981120a751\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"175f852981120a751\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#175f852981120a751\" href=\"#175f852981120a751\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Disturbing The Lines: an invitation for Israelis and Jews by Israelis and Jews<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"175f852981120a751\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_175f852981120a751\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/DisturbingTheLines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 16, 2024 | 5pm | Virtual Event<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=go8tA8HILSU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"em-content_about\">\n<div class=\"em-about_description\">\n<p><b>Panelists<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>meital yaniv<\/b>,\u00a0author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/communitiesofmemory.myshopify.com\/products\/meital-yaniv-bloodlines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\"><i>bloodlines<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>meital yaniv (b. 1984, Tel-Aviv, israel) is learning how to be in a human form. they do things with words, with moving n still images, with threads, with bodies in front of bodies, with the Earth. they are a death laborer tending to a prayer for the liberation of the land of Palestine and the lands of our bodies. they are learning to listen to the Waters, birdsongs, caretakers, and ancestors as they walk as a guest on the home and gathering place of the Cahuilla-\u0294\u00edvil\u0303uwenetem Meyt\u00e9mak, Tongva-Kizh Nation, Luise\u00f1o-Pay\u00f3mkawichum, and Serrano-Yuhaaviatam\/Maarenga&#8217;yam.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hadar Cohen\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hadar is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She is the founder of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/malchut.one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Malchut<\/a>, a spiritual skill building school teaching Jewish mysticism and direct experience of God. She cultivated her own curriculum on the cosmology of creation and teaches it through her training\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malchut.one\/god-fellowship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">God Fellowship<\/a>. Malchut is also home for her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malchut.one\/jewish-mystical-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Jewish Mystical School<\/a>\u00a0that includes a library of her classes and a community platform for connection. She is a 10th-generation Jerusalemite with lineage roots also in Syria, Kurdistan, Iraq and Iran. Hadar consults and teaches on Judaism, multi-faith solidarity, spiritual and political activism and more. Her podcast,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malchut.one\/podcasts\/hadar-s-web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Hadar\u2019s Web<\/a>, features community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Hadar coaches and mentors people 1:1 as well as leads and facilitates groups and community gatherings. Hadar weaves the spiritual with the political through performance art, writing, music and ritual.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hadarcohen.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hadarcohen.me<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malchut.one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">malchut.one<\/a>.\u00a0 \/\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hadarcohen32\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@hadarcohen32<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nSasha Perry\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sasha is a white trans\/queer working-class ashkenazi jew who organizes in earth\/animal liberation and Pro-Palestinian spaces. They are an award-winning documentary editor whose films range from Palestinian freedom of movement, abortion access, Transgender rights, and the government targeting of radical movements. Sasha is a Rabbinical student with ALEPH, the Jewish Renewal movement in the lineage of Reb Zalman Schachter Shalomi and graduate of their first Earth-Based Judaism cohort. Sasha is part of Rabbis for Ceasfire, Jewish Voice for Peace, and If Not Now. Their work as a Rabbinic Intern for a spiritual community in Los Angeles focuses organize around issues of incarceration, immigration, climate, housing and racial justice.<\/p>\n<p><b>Asaf Calderon<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Israeli social worker based in New York and one of the founders of Shoresh<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shoresh_us\/\">Shoresh<\/a>\u00a0is a movement of anti-Zionist Israelis based in the U.S. who work towards freedom, democracy and justice for all who live between the river and the sea. In addition to striving\u00a0for justice, Shoresh members are motivated by our love for our families, our communities and histories and our own material stakes in a free and just future in Palestine\/Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) Programming Stream at the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and Memory and Resistance Laboratory<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-ab8a17103240d7037 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_ab8a17103240d7037\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"ab8a17103240d7037\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#ab8a17103240d7037\" href=\"#ab8a17103240d7037\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Bloodlines with meital yaniv<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"ab8a17103240d7037\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_ab8a17103240d7037\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodlinesbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\"><i>bloodlines<\/i><\/a>\u00a0is an epic and intimate dive into the israeli apartheid regime from the perspective of an ex-israeli\/ex-zionist soldier. Born into a sephardic and ashkenazi lineage of in\/famous war heroes and pillars for the state of israel, meital yaniv traces their paternal family narrative from surviving the Holocaust of the second world war to migrating to Palestine and their subsequent indoctrination as zionist colonizers and defenders of the state of israel. yaniv directs our attention to the cycles of history and how genocide not only repeats but grows monstrously in the crevices of state belonging. Through a bold and radical poetics that unsettles language and definition, they foreground vulnerability while traversing the nuance of voice and inner forms of address.\u00a0yaniv unravels the coordinates of belonging to write in the fissures of israeli identity.\u00a0<i>bloodlines<\/i>\u00a0is an invitation to contemporary israelis to unstitch the military uniform from their bodies and to reckon with their atrocities against generations of Palestinian lives and livelihoods. It is also a demand that the ongoing catastrophes in Palestine end now.\u00a0With uncompromising courage and in lucid manifestation, yaniv urges israelis to join them in drowning in the wounds of their ancestors as well as the wounds they&#8217;ve inflicted, and in so doing, bring the state of israel and israeli identity to &#8220;a loving and caring death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meitalyaniv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">meital yaniv<\/a>\u00a0(b. 1984, Tel-Aviv, israel) is learning how to be in a human form. they do things with words, with moving and still images, with threads, with bodies in front of bodies, with the Earth. they are a death laborer tending to a prayer for the liberation of the land of Palestine and the lands of our bodies. they keep Fires and submerge themselves in Ocean and Sea Water often. yaniv is learning to listen to the Waters, birdsongs, caretakers, and ancestors as they walk as a guest on the home and gathering place of the Cahuilla-\u0294\u00edvil\u0303uwenetem Meyt\u00e9mak, Tongva-Kizh Nation, Luise\u00f1o-Pay\u00f3mkawichum, and Serrano-Yuhaaviatam\/Maarenga&#8217;yam<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/bloodlines_Jan10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 10, 2024 | 12pm | Virtual Event<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Bloodlines, Disillusionment and Return: Can They Meet?<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L3fCZor1TLQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/bloodlines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>February 7, 2024 | 8am | Virtual Event<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>In Conversation: Bayo Akomolafe and meital yaniv<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-adb690d32565f543d fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_adb690d32565f543d\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"adb690d32565f543d\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#adb690d32565f543d\" href=\"#adb690d32565f543d\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Film Screening &amp; Panel: Gaza Fights for Freedom<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"adb690d32565f543d\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_adb690d32565f543d\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/gaza_fights_for_freedom\">January 25, 2024 | 4:30pm | Hybrid Event\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gaza Fights for Freedom covers the height of the Great March of Return protests that were inspired and led by the poet, journalist and non-violent resistance activist, Ahmed Abu Artema. The March was intended to last only from March 30, 2018 (Land Day) to 15 May (Nakba Day) but continued for almost 18 months. This film features stunning exclusive footage and tells the story of Gaza past and present.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists:<\/p>\n<p><b>Taher Herzallah<\/b>\u00a0served as the Director of Outreach and Community Organizing for American Muslims for Palestine. While a UCR student, Taher was the President of the Muslim Student Association West and Students for Justice in Palestine. He is currently in the Ph.D. program in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. His family is rooted in Shujaiya, Gaza.<\/p>\n<p><b>Shaheen Nassar<\/b>\u00a0is a Community Organizer with the Council for American Islamic Relations, Los Angeles Chapter. A graduate of UC Riverside, Shaheen is an advocate for human rights. His family is from Shujaiya central Gaza. He has authored articles published by Aljazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Co-Sponsored by: The Decolonizing Humanism(?) Stream and Performing Difference Faculty Commons Group at the Center for Ideas and Society, Departments of MCS, English, Comparative Literature, SJP<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-bd9c69ce138ec0cb9 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_bd9c69ce138ec0cb9\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"bd9c69ce138ec0cb9\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#bd9c69ce138ec0cb9\" href=\"#bd9c69ce138ec0cb9\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Black Scare \/ Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States <\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"bd9c69ce138ec0cb9\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_bd9c69ce138ec0cb9\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/burden-stelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 31, 2024 | 4pm | Virtual Event<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y67qFF-DfLY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Book talk with Charisse Burden-Stelly<\/p>\n<p><b>About the Book\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Black Scare \/ Red Scare<\/i>\u00a0illuminates the anticommunist nature of the US and its governance, but also shines a light on a misunderstood tradition of struggle for Black liberation. Burden-Stelly highlights the Black anticapitalist organizers working within and alongside the international communist movement and analyzes the ways the Black Scare\/Red Scare reverberates through ongoing suppression of Black radical activism today. Drawing on a range of administrative, legal, and archival sources, Burden-Stelly incorporates emancipatory ideas from several disciplines to uncover novel insights into Black political minorities and their legacy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Speaker Bio<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;I am a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, and intellectual history. My research pursues two complementary lines of inquiry. The first interrogates the transnational entanglements of U.S. capitalist racism, anticommunism, and antiblack racial oppression. My second area of focus examines twentieth-century Black anticapitalist intellectual thought, theory, and praxis. I am the co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of\u00a0<i>W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History<\/i>, and my single-authored book titled\u00a0<i>Black Scare\/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States<\/i>\u00a0is forthcoming in November 2023. I am also the co-editor, with Dr. Jodi Dean, of\u00a0<i>Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women\u2019s Political Writings\u00a0<\/i>(Verso, 2022)<i>\u00a0<\/i>and the co-editor, with Dr. Aaron Kamugisha and Dr. Percy Hintzen, of the latter\u2019s writings titled\u00a0<i>Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean and the Postcolonial State<\/i>. Additionally, I guest edited the \u201cClaudia Jones: Foremother of World Revolution\u201d special issue of\u00a0<i>The Journal of Intersectionality<\/i>. My published work appears in journals including\u00a0<i>Small Axe, Monthly Review, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism &amp; Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies<\/i>,\u00a0<i>CLR James Journal,\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>American Communist History\u00a0<\/i>and in popular venues including\u00a0<i>Monthly Review, Boston Review, Essence\u00a0<\/i>magazine, and\u00a0<i>Black Agenda Report<\/i>. I have been interviewed on podcasts, radio shows, and news show including\u00a0<i>The Real News Network, Breakthrough News, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism\u00a0<\/i>podcast,\u00a0<i>The Red Nation\u00a0<\/i>podcast,\u00a0<i>AJ+,<\/i>\u00a0<i>By Any Means Necessary\u00a0<\/i>news show,\u00a0<i>Bad Faith\u00a0<\/i>podcast, and\u00a0<i>The Katie Halper\u00a0<\/i>show.<\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by\u00a0Marxist Institute for Research and the Decolonizing Humanism(?) Programming Stream at the UCR Center for Ideas and Society<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-6bae7cbd8f44226b1 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_6bae7cbd8f44226b1\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"6bae7cbd8f44226b1\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#6bae7cbd8f44226b1\" href=\"#6bae7cbd8f44226b1\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Detours Palestine<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"6bae7cbd8f44226b1\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_6bae7cbd8f44226b1\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/DetoursPalestine\">February 20, 2024 | 2pm | Virtual Event\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Detours Palestine: Genocide in Gaza Teach-In with Professors Jennifer Lynn Kelly (UCSC) and Lila Sharif (ASU)<\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by the UCR Department of Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies (GSST) and Decolonizing Humanism (?) Program Stream at the UCR Center for Ideas &amp; Society<\/p>\n<p>In this virtual teach-in, Professors Jennifer Lynn Kelly and Lila Sharif will draw from their published work and their forthcoming co-edited volume\u00a0<i>Detours Palestine\u00a0<\/i>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/detours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/detours<\/a>) to contextualize the unfolding genocide on Gaza. Centering the work and everyday lives of Palestinians documenting and writing about the everyday horrors in Gaza, Professors Kelly and Sharif will amplify the pedagogy of those teaching life in between bombs, and those risking\u2013 and losing\u2014 their lives to document their displacement and death. In doing so, Professors Kelly and Sharif reckon with what it means to be a \u201cwitness\u201d to the destructive consequences of ongoing settler dispossession in Palestine, and to\u00a0consider the ways that Gaza emerges to consolidate global humanity in the face of overwhelming dehumanization and genocide.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bios:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Jennifer Lynn Kelly<\/b>\u00a0is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research broadly engages questions of settler colonialism, U.S. empire, and the fraught politics of both tourism and solidarity. Her first book,\u00a0<i>Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine\u00a0<\/i>(Duke University Press, 2023), is a multi-sited interdisciplinary study of solidarity tourism in Palestine that shows how solidarity tourism has emerged in Palestine as an organizing strategy that is both embedded in and working against histories of sustained displacement. Her next project, co-edited with Somdeep Sen (Rothskilde University) and Lila Sharif (Arizona State University), is\u00a0<i>Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine<\/i>, the next volume in the Detours Series at Duke University Press after the inaugural\u00a0<i>Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai&#8217;i<\/i>. She is also a Founding Collective member of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and a Steering Committee Member for UCSC\u2019s Faculty for Justice in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p><b>Dr. Lila Sharif<\/b>\u00a0is a creative writer, researcher, and assistant professor at the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She is currently writing a book about the ways in which fair trade economies, settler colonialism, environmental destruction, and storytelling converge at Palestine&#8217;s historic olive tree, which has been harvested by Palestinians for over 6,000 years. Through a Palestinian Indigenous methodology that integrates food, land, and culture, and people, Sharif develops the concept of Vanishment to critique economies based in third world &#8220;recognition&#8221; and ongoing Israeli settler colonialism. Sharif researches and publishes on environmental justice, Indigenous epistemologies, and ethnic and racial studies, and is also a published poet.\u00a0Recently Sharif co-authored\u00a0<i>Departures\u00a0<\/i>(UC Press, 2022), with the Critical Refugee Studies Collective and is currently co-editing\u00a0<i>The Sage Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies\u00a0<\/i>and a sequel to\u00a0<i>Departures<\/i>. She is also currently co-editing\u00a0<i>A Decolonial Guidebook to Historic Palestine\u00a0<\/i>Dr. Jenny Kelley and Dr. Somdeep Sen. Dr. Sharif is a co-founding member of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective as well as the Palestinian Feminist Collective. She is the first Palestinian to earn a Ph.D. in ethnic studies, and holds a dual PhD in Sociology and Ethnic Studies.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-e9ee59334bcf0d546 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_e9ee59334bcf0d546\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"e9ee59334bcf0d546\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#e9ee59334bcf0d546\" href=\"#e9ee59334bcf0d546\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Understanding Palestine Series<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"e9ee59334bcf0d546\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_e9ee59334bcf0d546\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p>Please join us for the first of a 3-part series on Understanding Palestine.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/PalestineOccupation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Panel I: Tuesday, Feb 6, 2024, 12.00 \u2013 2.00 pm<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><strong>Palestine: Occupation, Settler Colonialism, and Apartheid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xPKXpwHGcNU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What has been the impact on the Palestinian people of Gaza, the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem of Israel\u2019s latest war on Gaza? How should we understand the overall context and history behind this war and its horrific toll of civilian lives? Israel has over the years variously been characterized as maintaining an occupation of Palestine, as being a settler colony, and as practicing a regime of apartheid. Its current assault on Gaza has been charged with genocide, though the draconian siege or blockade of Gaza since 2007 has also been described as a slow or creeping genocide. What is the definition of each description of the state of Israel and its actions? On what grounds are each of these descriptors based? How are they related to one another historically and in practice? What difference does it make to the practice of the supporters of Palestinian rights what paradigm is foregrounded?<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<\/p>\n<p>Eman Ghanayem (Washington University in St Louis); Jess Ghannam (UCSF); Jennifer Mogannam (UCSC)<\/p>\n<p>Hosted and moderated by David Lloyd (UCR, English)<\/p>\n<p>========================<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/PalestineLaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Panel 2: Thursday, March 7, 2024, 12.00 \u2013 2.00 pm<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Palestine and the Law<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The colonization of Palestine has raised many questions that involve international law, the laws of war and occupation, legal definitions of apartheid or crimes against humanity, the rights of refugees, the nature and rights of sovereignty, statehood and statelessness, and, domestically, concerning the legality of boycott, legal definitions of antisemitism, and the right to protest, as well as the legality of censorship and bans on speech and other forms of expression. Do Israel\u2019s recent attacks on Gaza and the West Bank, its deliberate denial of basic infrastructure\u2014water, power, access to food\u2014and its long-term siege of the Gaza Strip constitute crimes against humanity and\/or war crimes? Do they amount, as many have claimed, to the crime of genocide? Given the continuing denial of statehood to Palestine, what rights does its people have and what may be the limits of a rights-based approach to Palestinian liberation? How has Israel succeeded in changing international law through its actions and claims to legitimacy? What are the rights of refugees to return to their original places of residence? How do military<\/p>\n<p>rule and discriminatory laws affect Palestinians both on the West Bank and in occupied East Jerusalem and in Israel itself? In the US, how is the right to boycott protected? What rights do Palestine solidarity activists enjoy? What is the \u201cIHRA definition of antisemitism\u201d and what is its legal force? What is lawfare?<\/p>\n<p><i>Speakers to be announced.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>========================<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/IndigenousResistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Panel 3: Wednesday, April 25, 2024, 12.00 \u2013 2.00 pm<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Indigenous Resistance, Settler Decolonization, and Palestine<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WCwPjriCAw8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There has been much discussion of possible paths to the liberation of Palestine, including the two-state solution that would ensure a sovereign state for both Israel and Palestine on the divided territory of historic Palestine; the one-state solution, which has become the de facto reality given Israel\u2019s virtual annexation of most of the West Bank, but which could also be transformed into a post-apartheid state of all its people with equal rights for all; and even a \u201cpost-state\u201d solution that would seek other modes of polity than the nation-state. Would the decolonization of Palestine entail the expulsion of Jewish settlers from the West Bank or Jewish Israelis from all of historic Palestine? What forms of cohabitation can be imagined? How far would external pressure on Israel or the Palestinian Authority be required to enable decolonization to take place, and what kinds of pressure would be effective? Is there a viable nonviolent path to decolonization? What can be learnt from Indigenous models of decolonization from settler colonialism or from the post-apartheid successes and failures of South Africa<\/p>\n<p><i>Speakers to be announced.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For further information, please contact David Lloyd,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dclloyd@ucr.edu\">dclloyd@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cosponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-c47ec4b354b047167 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_c47ec4b354b047167\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"c47ec4b354b047167\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#c47ec4b354b047167\" href=\"#c47ec4b354b047167\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">The logic of civilizational critique: Martin Bernal\u2019s notion of Semitism<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"c47ec4b354b047167\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_c47ec4b354b047167\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/Umachandran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2024 at 3:30pm | Virtual Event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This paper revisits Martin Bernal\u2019s 1987\u00a0<i>Black Athena: The Afroasiatic roots of Classical Civilization<\/i>\u00a0in order to put critical pressure on its notion of \u2018Semitism\u2019. I start from the premise that the ensuing debate was a missed opportunity to reckon with the colonial epistemology of the field, as I have described elsewhere (Umachandran and Ward 2024). Instead, attention was diverted into a bitter entrenchment of race-based identity politics, wherein the arguments of the book about the classical as justification for civilizational supremacy were diluted and deflected.<\/p>\n<p>In this paper, then, I attempt to critique Bernal from a position that does not attempt to undermine his deflation of Eurocentric chauvinism (what could be called a post-Bernal position, indicating that the critique he inaugurated is by no means completed or behind us, roughly analogously with the \u2018post\u2019 of post-colonialism). Rather I insist that Bernal was no champion of Black emancipation via the re-narration of global history. I take seriously the distance he took care to re-iterate from Afrocentrist historians to give closer critical scrutiny to the \u2018-asiatic\u2019 half of the root-story that Bernal would tell. In tracing how Bernal constructs \u2018Semitism\u2019 in volume 1 of\u00a0<i>Black Athena<\/i>, I argue that his historiography of so-called classical civilization is nonetheless dependent on the exclusion of the Muslim subject.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I query the extent to which critiques of the Eurocentrism of Classical Studies can refer to Bernal to launch projects of &#8216;decolonisation&#8217; or adjacently, projects of racial justice. WHat would embracing an ancient history of the world that embraced Muslim subjectivities look like, especially when oriented towards justice?\u00a0What kinds of knowledge-production would go on in a historical discipline that undertook such a project, and how would these engender a politics in common with other critical disciplines such as Critical Muslim Studies?\u00a0 In conclusion, I suggest how Critical Ancient World Studies can work past the reductive epistemological terms of analysis that have kept Classical studies turning in ever smaller circles since\u00a0<i>Black Athena<\/i> failed to ignite a revolution it might have promised.<\/p>\n<p><b>Speaker<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>Mathura Umachandran (she\/they) is a lecturer in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religious Studies and Theology at the University of Exeter (U.K.). They took their PhD from the Department of Classics at Princeton University in 2018, followed by a post-doctoral research position at Oxford University and the Andrew W. Mellon post-doctoral fellowship at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University. They co-steward the Critical Ancient World Studies collective with Marchella Ward, from which collaboration the co-edited volume,\u00a0<i>Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics<\/i>\u00a0(Routledge 2024), emerges. They have expertise across a broad range of classical reception studies with an emphasis on thinking with critical theory of all stripes but specifically queer, decolonial and post-colonial theories.<\/p>\n<p>Cosponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society, the Department of English, and the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-b9dfa57b3fc7e0079 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_b9dfa57b3fc7e0079\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"b9dfa57b3fc7e0079\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#b9dfa57b3fc7e0079\" href=\"#b9dfa57b3fc7e0079\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Insurgencies\/Counterinsurgencies: a Conversation on Aesthetics, Archives, and Autonomy<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"b9dfa57b3fc7e0079\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_b9dfa57b3fc7e0079\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/Insurgencies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0April 30, 2024 3pm\u00a0 | Virtual Event<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wzorV6ISbt4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>with\u00a0<b>Shellyne Rodriguez<\/b>\u00a0(New York City based artist, organizer, professor) and\u00a0<b>Orisanmi Burton<\/b>\u00a0(professor at American University, author of\u00a0<i>Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>led by UCR professors\u00a0<b>Elyse Ambrose<\/b>\u00a0(Department of Black Study and the Department for the Study of Religion) and<b>\u00a0Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/b>\u00a0(Department of Black Study and Media and Cultural Studies, Co-Director of Center for Ideas and Society)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_E8ebjr65TCq48peDLSXYVA#\/registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Registration required<\/a><br \/>\nFree to the public<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) Programming Stream at the Center for Ideas and Society<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-d61e022b9afe3c7b2 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_d61e022b9afe3c7b2\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"d61e022b9afe3c7b2\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#d61e022b9afe3c7b2\" href=\"#d61e022b9afe3c7b2\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Divesting from Apartheid: Continuity, Difference, and Historical Lessons Roundtable<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"d61e022b9afe3c7b2\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_d61e022b9afe3c7b2\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/history-of-divestment-panel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 20, 2024 12pm | Virtual Event<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/afLtXnfhCro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the University of California Riverside\u2019s Center for Ideas and Society\u2019s \u201cDecolonizing Humanities (?)\u201d initiative and UCR Faculty for Justice in Palestine<\/p>\n<p><b>A roundtable with Angela Y. Davis, Jess Ghannam, and Robin D.G. Kelley.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Through the 1980s, campuses throughout the United States and internationally were the sites of a student-led movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against South Africa\u2019s apartheid regime, a campaign called for by South Africa\u2019s African National Congress (ANC). In many cases, anti-apartheid campaigns conjoined with demands for an end to \u201capartheid on campus\u201d as students contested racial and gender discrimination and the rollback of affirmative action in their own institutions. Administration buildings were occupied, shanty-towns constructed on campus, and the meetings of Regents or Trustees disrupted. This was a campus movement that also coordinated with trades unions, religious communities, and a broad spectrum of social movements. And over the course of several years or organizing and protests, and despite obdurate administrative resistance, it succeeded in bringing many universities to divest and contributed greatly to the mainstreaming of the anti-apartheid movement as a moral and political cause for civil society as a whole. Notably, this campaign succeeded despite the Reagan and Bush administration\u2019s deep support for the apartheid regime as a significant Cold War ally and source of raw materials.<\/p>\n<p>Now the campaign for divestment from Israeli and from corporations that support its genocidal war and apartheid regime is spreading across US campuses in response to Palestinian civil society\u2019s call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS). This round table is intended to offer insights for the present from the history of the previous anti-apartheid movement. How was it organized? What were its overall strategies? What varieties of practice were used to advance the campaign? What tactics succeeded most effectively? How did campus organizations succeed in growing and drawing support? How were coalitions built with other civil society movements? In what ways did university administrations and police seek to repress or contain the divestment movement? And how does the present conjuncture differ from the 1980s in ways that demand new thinking and strategies? What has changed since the Reagan era, both in terms of the experience of social movement activism in neoliberal America and in terms of the strengthening of the state\u2019s forces of repression? How specifically must the campaign against Israeli apartheid differ in its language, analysis, and strategies from the campaign against South Africa?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-8f07e1fdeaa074cc3 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_8f07e1fdeaa074cc3\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"8f07e1fdeaa074cc3\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#8f07e1fdeaa074cc3\" href=\"#8f07e1fdeaa074cc3\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">I am not the River Jhelum Film Screening and Director Q&amp;A<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"8f07e1fdeaa074cc3\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_8f07e1fdeaa074cc3\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/film-screening-and-director-qa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 11, 2024 10:30am | CHASS INTS 1128<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Departments of Media and Cultural Studies, Religious Studies with support from Center of Ideas and Society and the Program for Decolonzing Humanities present the film\u00a0<i>I am not the River Jhelum\u00a0<\/i>and an opportunity to interact with its director Prabhash Chandra. The film explores through its young protagonist Afeefa the forces at play in Kashmir, India, a highly militarized region of the world. It evokes the suffocation and trauma experienced by Afeefa in an atmosphere of perpetual uncertainty and violence. The director Prabash Chandra is a graduate in Physics and has lived and worked in Kashmir as a teacher. He brings his own understanding of the conflict to shape his artistic endeavor aimed at promoting better comprehension of the situation in Kashmir.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-53befd9e319416e4c fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_53befd9e319416e4c\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"53befd9e319416e4c\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#53befd9e319416e4c\" href=\"#53befd9e319416e4c\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">UC People\u2019s Tribunal<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"53befd9e319416e4c\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_53befd9e319416e4c\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/UCPeoplesTribunal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 11, 2024 9am | Hybrid Event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join us in-person (in the Oakland-SF Bay Area) or virtually for the first session of the UC People\u2019s Tribunal for Palestine on November 11! People\u2019s tribunals are forums of justice that critique cultures of impunity around crimes of capitalism and imperialism while building toward better worlds. Unbeholden to authority and unbowed by state violence, they enable social justice movements and organizations to speak truth to power by charging those in positions of power. People\u2019s tribunals often draw their mandate from the 1976 Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples, which was adopted in Algiers as part of a non-aligned Third Worldist struggle for self-determination against imperialism.<\/p>\n<p>All information (including livestream links) will be continuously updated on the Tribunal website:\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/ucpeoplestribunal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/ucpeoplestribunal.org\/<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Free and open to the public<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-c902558c8b98d88ed fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_c902558c8b98d88ed\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"c902558c8b98d88ed\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#c902558c8b98d88ed\" href=\"#c902558c8b98d88ed\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Film Screening: Boycott<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"c902558c8b98d88ed\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_c902558c8b98d88ed\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/boycott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 21, 2024 5:30pm | CHASS INTS 1128<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles.<\/p>\n<p>Come at 5:30pm for refreshments; Screening starts at 6:00pm<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Graduate Students for Palestine, Alumni for Justice in Palestine, and the Center for Ideas and Society.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-30c40256d54adb09f fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_30c40256d54adb09f\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"30c40256d54adb09f\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#30c40256d54adb09f\" href=\"#30c40256d54adb09f\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">How To Protect Immigrant and International Students<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"30c40256d54adb09f\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_30c40256d54adb09f\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><strong>February 25, 2025 6pm | Virtual Event<\/strong><br \/>\nJoin stream: ucr.zoom.us\/j\/96488319532<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys Kristina David, UCR Class of 2017, and Megan Guzman will lead an info session and Q&amp;A via Zoom on:<br \/>\n\u2022immigration education privacy<br \/>\n\u2022faculty responsibility<br \/>\n\u2022student rights<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Email sarita.see@ucr.edu.<\/p>\n<p>Event co-sponsored by UCR\u2019s English Department, Center for Ideas &amp; Society\u2019s Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative. Free &amp; open to the UCR campus community.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-6eaa87599cedb8038 fusion-toggle-has-divider\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#628ac7;\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_6eaa87599cedb8038\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"6eaa87599cedb8038\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-14252-3\" data-target=\"#6eaa87599cedb8038\" href=\"#6eaa87599cedb8038\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Recent Protests and the Current Crisis in Iran: Is this the End?<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"6eaa87599cedb8038\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_6eaa87599cedb8038\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/event\/crisis-in-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>February 9, 2025 4:30pm | Virtual Event<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRegister: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/UCR_Iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/UCR_Iran\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Decolonizing Humanism(?) and Being Human Initiatives at the Center for Ideas &amp; Society, the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program and the department of History at UCR present:<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Recent Protests and the Current Crisis in Iran: Is this the End?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>An online panel discussion with:<\/p>\n<p>Reza Aslan, UCR<br \/>\nSholeh Wolp\u00e9, UCI<br \/>\nAfshin Matin-Asgari, Cal State University, LA<br \/>\nFariba Zarinebaf, UCR (moderator)<\/p>\n<p><b>Dr. Reza Aslan<\/b>\u00a0(Creative Writing) is a renowned writer, commentator, professor, Emmy- and Peabody-nominated producer, and scholar of religions. A recipient of the prestigious James Joyce award, Aslan is the author of numerous internationally best-selling books, including the #1 New York Times Bestseller,\u00a0<i>Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth<\/i>. His biography of Howard Baskerville,\u00a0<i>An American Martyr in Persia,\u00a0<\/i>was nominated for the PEN\/Jacqueline Beograd Weld Award.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sholeh Wolp\u00e9<\/b>\u00a0is a poet, writer, and librettist whose body of work spans seven collections of poetry, several plays, five books of translations and three anthologies, as well as texts and librettos for the choir and opera. Her most recent books are:\u00a0<i>The Invisible Sun<\/i>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<i>Attar\u00a0<\/i>(Harper Collins), and\u00a0<i>Abacus of Loss \u2013\u00a0A Memoir in Verse<\/i>\u00a0(Univ. of Arkansas Press). She is the Writer-In-Residence at the University of California, Irvine.<\/p>\n<p><b>Afshin Matin-asgari<\/b>\u00a0is professor of Middle East History at California State University, Los Angeles and author of more than thirty articles\/book chapters and three books on modern Iran&#8217;s political and intellectual history. His latest book is\u00a0<i>Axis of Empire: A History Iran US relations (Verso, 2026)<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fariba Zarinebaf<\/b>\u00a0is a professor of Middle East History at UCR. She works on the history of early modern Istanbul and has published several articles on comparative study of Constitutionalism in Iran and the late Ottoman empire. Among her publications are\u00a0<i>Crime and\u00a0Punishment in Eighteenth Century Istanbul and Mediterranean Encounters, Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-8\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h2>Upcoming Events<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9\"><div id=\"localist-widget-89498003\" class=\"localist-widget\"><\/div>\n<p><script defer type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/widget\/view?schools=ucr&#038;days=365&#038;num=50&#038;tags=Decolonizing+Humanism&#038;container=localist-widget-89498003&#038;template=card\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-10\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h2>Past Events<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-11\"><div id=\"localist-widget-68218305\" class=\"localist-widget\"><\/div>\n<p><script defer type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/widget\/view?schools=ucr&#038;days=-365&#038;num=100&#038;tags=Decolonizing+Humanism&#038;container=localist-widget-68218305&#038;template=card\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-12\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h2>Director&#8217;s Blog<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-blog-shortcode fusion-blog-shortcode-1 fusion-blog-archive fusion-blog-layout-medium fusion-blog-no\"><div class=\"fusion-posts-container fusion-posts-container-no fusion-blog-rollover\" data-pages=\"2\"><article id=\"blog-1-post-16418\" class=\"fusion-post-medium post-16418 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-directors-corner category-dylan category-news tag-dylan-rodriguez\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><h2 class=\"blog-shortcode-post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/news\/oct2023\/\">Director\u2019s update: October 2023<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><p> By Dylan Rodr\u00edguez Dear UCR colleagues, students, and staff, It is an honor to begin my third year as Co-Director of the Center for Ideas and Society. I am excited about the Fall 2023 schedule of events for the Decolonizing Humanism(?) programming stream, including a lecture and performance by globally renowned scholar, lawyer, and activist Dr. Ana Flauzina (UCR Chancellor\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2023) on October 30-31 (in person) and \u201cOn Violence: Fall 2023 Experimental Study Sequence\u201d (online). Clickable link to participate in the \u201cOn Violence\u201d sequence is here. I invite you and anyone who may be interested to join the \u201cOn Violence\u201d study sequence over the course of the Fall quarter. Below this note is a list of the online study sessions for \u201cOn Violence,\u201d featuring some of the most significant emerging and established scholars in their fields of study. I have taken great pleasure in collaborating with faculty and students from across the UCR campus and UC system over the last couple [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/author\/jsala010\/\" title=\"Posts by Jessica Salas\" rel=\"author\">Jessica Salas<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2023-10-23T09:20:22-07:00<\/span><span>October 23, 2023<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span>Categories: <a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/category\/directors-corner\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Director's Corner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/category\/dylan\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><span class=\"meta-tags\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/tag\/dylan-rodriguez\/\" rel=\"tag\">Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/a><\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/news\/oct2023\/\" aria-label=\"More on Director\u2019s update: October 2023\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-15882\" class=\"fusion-post-medium post-15882 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-directors-corner category-dylan category-news tag-dylan-rodriguez\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><h2 class=\"blog-shortcode-post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/news\/feb2023\/\">Director\u2019s update: February 2023<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><p> By Dylan Rodr\u00edguez It continues to be a privilege and pleasure to participate in shaping the work of the Center for Ideas and Society. I trust that this brief correspondence will help encourage you to attend, participate in, and organize activities that reflect the experimental, inter\/trans\/counter\/anti-disciplinary, creative character of the Center. As always, please feel free to reach out to me if you have ideas or questions: dylanrodriguez73.CIS@gmail.com Success! AFD Grant update I'm happy to report that the Faculty Commons Project will continue to be supported through 2023-2024 as a result of our successful application for renewal of the UC Advancing Faculty Diversity (AFD) grant. I especially wish to acknowledge the Center\u2019s Executive Katharine Henshaw and Grants and Finance Analyst Kathy Ann Hitchens for collaborating with me on this successful grant renewal. Crucially, the AFD grant will enable the expansion of the Faculty Commons Project to include two new and vital components: the creation of a Queer and Trans Studies Faculty Commons Group, [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/author\/jsala010\/\" title=\"Posts by Jessica Salas\" rel=\"author\">Jessica Salas<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2023-02-06T09:18:25-08:00<\/span><span>February 6, 2023<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span>Categories: <a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/category\/directors-corner\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Director's Corner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/category\/dylan\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><span class=\"meta-tags\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/tag\/dylan-rodriguez\/\" rel=\"tag\">Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/a><\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/news\/feb2023\/\" aria-label=\"More on Director\u2019s update: February 2023\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-13\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">For more information or to propose a project\/event\/collaboration, contact <a href=\"mailto:dylan.rodriguez@ucr.edu\">Dylan Rodr\u00edguez.<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14296"}],"version-history":[{"count":161,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17345,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14296\/revisions\/17345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}