June 10, 2019
DK Summer Institute Alumni Writing Symposium: (Un) Just Spaces
June 10, 2019 at 12:00pm – June 12, 2019 at 5:00pm EDT
Pendell Hill, 338 Plush Mill Rd, Wallingford, PA 19086
This gathering convened alumni of the Democratizing Knowledge Summer Institute for a two-day writing symposium. The three-year series of Summer Institutes (2016-18) brought together scholar and…
April 23, 2018
Asmarina
April 23, 2018 at 5:00pm – 7:00pm EDT
Watson Hall, Waston Theater
Asmarina is a documentary that depicts the presence of the habesha community in the city of Milan through collective memories recorded in personal archives. Through photograph, music and stories the…
April 18, 2018
3000 Nights
April 18, 2018 at 7:00pm – 9:00pm EDT
Shaffer Art Building, Shemin Auditorium
Inspired by true events, 3000 Nights tells the story of a newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher who is falsely arrested and incarcerated in an Israeli prison where she gives birth to her son. Through…
March 26, 2018
Reproduction Justice & Our Communities
March 26, 2018 at 5:00pm – 6:00pm EDT
Bird Library, 114
Dr. Griselda Rodriguez-Solomon is a mother, Birth Justice Advocate, Professor at the City College of New York, and kundalini yogi. Trained under Ancient Song Doula Services, Griselda’s praxis…
February 5, 2018
Rapper A.D. Carson to Visit Syracuse Feb. 5 for Black History Month
February 5, 2018 at 5:00pm – 7:00pm EST
Bird Library, 114
The University observes Black History Month with a visit by A.D. Carson, a hip-hop scholar who created a popular rap album to defend his Ph.D. dissertation at Clemson University. Carson, assistant…
April 25, 2017
Mele Murals
April 25, 2017 at 5:00pm – 6:00pm EDT
Grant Auditorium
Mele Murals is a documentary on the transformative power of modern graffiti art and ancient Hawaiian culture for a new generation of Native Hawaiians. Set against the resurgence of Hawaiian language…
March 29, 2017
Winona LaDuke
March 29, 2017 at 5:00pm – 7:00pm EDT
Shaffer Art Building, Shemin Auditorium
Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern…
January 25, 2017
Race & Our Communities
January 25, 2017 at 5:00pm – 7:00pm EST
Bird Library, 4
Dr. LeConté Dill is an Assistant Professor (Depar tment of Community Health Sciences) where she teaches predominantly first-generation and students of color, many of whom are experiencing family…
November 15, 2016
Scholarship on Indigenous Agriculture: Crimes of Incompetence & Bias
November 15, 2016 at 5:00pm – 7:00pm EST
Bird Library, 114
Considered a national exper t in Iroquois agriculture, Jane is currently an Associate Professor in the Depar tment of Hor ticulture at Cornell University. Her research focuses on Iroquois…
February 29, 2016
The Wind is Spirit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde
February 29, 2016 at 5:00pm – 8:00pm EST
Community Folk Art Center
DK invites you to an evenin g with Dr. Gloria Joseph, author of The Wind is Spirit. The Wind is Spirit was born from an interview conducted by groundbreaking author and activist Dr. Gloria Joseph,…
April 21, 2015
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
April 21, 2015 at 4:30pm – 6:00pm EDT
Bird Library, 114
Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman, writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement. This film plunges us into Boggs’s…
April 1, 2015
The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo: Film Screening and Post-Film Discussion with Producer Amina Mama
April 1, 2015 at 4:00pm – 6:00pm EDT
White Hall, 200
The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo explores the artistic contributions of one of Africa’s foremost woman writers, a trailblazer for an entire generation of exciting new talent, including internationally…
March 25, 2015
Democratizing Knowledge and Black Graduate Student Association Event
March 25, 2015 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm EDT
Hall of Languages, 111
Wednesday, March 25 – Presumed Incompetent: A Conversation on Navigating Academia. Join us in a group dialogue between faculty and graduate students of color. Dinner is provided. Please RSVP…
September 29, 2014
From Broken Bones to Healing Hearts: My Journey With Sarah Baartman
September 29, 2014 at 5:00pm EDT
Bird Library, 114
Diana Ferrus is an internationally-acclaimed South African poet, activist, and storyteller. Her poem “I’ve come to take you home” for Sarah Baartman, a Khoi Khoi woman who was…
May 16, 2014
“Transnational Challenges to Global Empire: Cultivating Ethical Feminist Praxis”
May 16, 2014 at 9:00am – 1:00pm EDT
3201 Hart Hall, 301 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616
The growth of feminist and ethnic studies has opened up new theoretical frontiers in social justice pedagogy and research. These interrogate the meaning of “the public” in the context of…
April 4, 2014
Documentary Filmmaking Workshop with Crystal Griffith and HQ Quan of QUAD Productions
April 4, 2014 at 9:00am – April 6, 2014 at 5:00pm EDT
Tolley Building, 304
A 2-day (14 hour) intensive documentary production workshop focusing on preproduction and production by award winning filmmakers, C. A. Griffith and H. L. T. Quan of QUAD Productions. Participants…
April 3, 2014
América’s Home Film Screening
April 3, 2014 at 4:00pm – 5:00pm EDT
Shaffer Art Building, Shemin Auditorium
América’s Home is the story of América “Meca” Sorrentini-Blaut, a feisty Puerto Rican woman in her 70’s and her fight against developers intent on bulldozing her community…
November 8, 2013
Illegal in Arizona – Banned Ethnic Studies: Can this be a national trend?
November 8, 2013 at 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
Bird Library, 114
Sean Arce, former director of Arizona’s Tucson Unified School District’s outlawed Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program. Co-sponsors: Latino/a-Latin American Studies, University College,…
April 19, 2013
Dana Olwan & Farhana Sultana: Islam & the Academy: Confronting Orientalism
April 19, 2013 at 12:00pm – 2:00pm EDT
Tolley Building, 304
Dana Olwan is Assistant Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies where she is currently preparing her book ‘Dishonorable Crimes: Murder, Rescue, and the Politics of Canadian…
April 1, 2013
Dean Spade: Teaching the Politics of Occupation
April 1, 2013 at 12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT
Tolley Building, 304
Dean Spade is Associate Professor of Law at Seattle University and the founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex…
