Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity

Screening of “Inside Buffalo” followed by Q&A with director Fred Kuwornu: Inside Buffalo is the story of the 92nd Infantry Division—the first African-American combat unit to fight in World War II—and the Italians who recall the valor, generosity and heroism of the “Buffalo Soldiers” who fought alongside them. (2010; Italian with English subtitles)

Freedom of speech is most often cashed out in the language of rights, and in particular First Amendment rights. These rights were created in order to achieve important social purposes having to do with democratic self-governance. Professor Post will discuss the difficulties of applying these purposes directly to the context of college campuses. He will then offer an alternative framework within which to understand freedom of speech on college campuses, which is that of academic freedom.

Join us for the unveiling of the mural and a “gallery talk” with artists Marthalicia Matarrita, Will Kasso Condry, Isaias Crow, Daniel “Pose 2” Hopkins aka Maxx Moses, and student participants. Refreshments will be served. Live music by DJ Ahmad Shakir.

The McCullough Mural Project and Artists’ Residency is sponsored by Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Anderson Freeman Resource Center, Student Activities, Director of the Arts, the Johnson Visual Arts Residency Program Fund, Wonnacott Commons, Twilight Scholars Program, and MCAB Speakers.

Join us for Buddhist Dharma teacher Lama Rod Owens’ public lecture. So many of us are grieving and in deep mourning for the suffering that we perceive in the world as well in our own situations. We do not live in a society that is comfortable with our open grieving. Community based grieving is healing and transformative. When we combine community grieving with our deep aspirations to love, then we are able to better transform our grief into wisdom and joy. This is a radical vision of bringing our full selves into the complexity of living.

Attend this student workshop with author, activist, and Lama (Buddhist Teacher) Rod Owens is an author, activist, and Lama (Buddhist Teacher). Stevie Wonder once sang, “Love’s in need of love today.” His words couldn’t be more true as we face a global community struggling with war, poverty, illness, climate instability, and the rise of political authorities and governments who do not seem to be grounded in compassion or kindness.

A panel with Susana Muñoz, Assistant Professor, School of Education, Colorado State University; Tom Wong, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California at San Diego; and Viveka Ray-Mazumder ‘11, Manager of Youth Organizing at Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, and Chellis House - Women’s Resource Center.

Public talk by writer and activist Eli Clare, drawing from his book _Brilliant Imperfection_.

A conversation geared toward helping students - and anyone else who is interested - make sense of how best to confront the challenges posed by racism today. It aims to achieve a better understanding of how it affect classroom and community dynamics, and how those relate to larger societal ones.

Ana Portnoy Brimmer, poet and organizer from Puerto Rico, will be talking about and reading from her debut poetry collection, To Love An Island. This book offers the stark recognition that disaster is political and colonialism the most violent of storms. Beginning with the aftermath of Hurricane María and spanning the summer insurrection of 2019 and subsequent earthquakes in Puerto Rico, To Love An Island is an exploration of collective trauma, an outpour of amassed grief, a desire for unleashed mourning, a fuck-you to resilience, a brandishing of resistance.

Virtual screening of the documentary, The Celine Archive, followed by an hour of discussion with the filmmaker, Prof. Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Distinguished Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz and Dean of the Arts. Registration required; please register right here.