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IRAAS EVENTS & NOTICES -SEPTEMBER  Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University |212-854-7080| E-mail | Website Connect with us 9/29 Punishing Black Girls in the Age of Mass Incarceration 10/13-14 Queer Disruptions: A Conference on Gender and Sexuality 10/5 Screening of: HBO Special "Habla Y Vota"  10/28  Hurston@125: Engaging with the Work and Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston Please join the Drug Policy Alliance for the White Faces,Black Lives: Race, Reparative Justice & the Drug War  conference, which will be held October 18 & 19. IRAAS cosponsors 10/19 @CU Graduate School of Journalism -Lecture Hall  Registration Required . Information at  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/white-faces-black-lives-race-reparative-justice-and-the-drug-war-tickets-27546229514 Monday 10/3 @ 7:00pm  Presented by The Men of Color Alliance  A CONVERSATION W/ SHAUN KING, NY Daily News- Senior Justice Writer  Free but Tickets are required please visit  https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/OMA/socialjustice/MCA.php#shaunking IRAAS Book Talk  10/26 @6:00pm  Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation Natasha Lightfoot, Associate Professor of History Columbia University; IRAAS Faculty Fellow Location: Faculty House- Garden Room 64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027 Free & Open to the Public Co-sponsored w/ Department of History at Columbia University  **Books will be available for purchase with Book Culture Bookstore onsite**

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Black Photographers of NYC- A Panel & Reception Wednesday July 13

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 6:30 – 8:00 PM

612 SCHERMERHORN HALL

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY(MORNINGSIDE CAMPUS)

Black Photographers of New York

A panel and reception with Kamoinge Photographers Danny Dawson, Russell Frederick and Ming Smith

Moderated by Grace Aneiza Ali

 Image by Russell Frederick

Kamoinge, a pioneering photographic collective, was formed in New York in over 50 years ago  to address the under-representation of black photographers in the art world. Kamoinge’s body of work spans the past 50 and included numerous images of daily life in black America in New York City during the last half of the twentieth century.

This panel is part of Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) 2016 Summer Teachers and Scholars Institute (STSI), entitled “The Many Worlds of Black New York.” This portion of the STSI is free and open to the public. To  learn more about the STIS please visit columbiastsi.com or emailstsi@columbia.edu .

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Bro/Sis Presents the 10th Annual Women's Holiday Tea 12/5/15

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol Presents  The 10th Annual  Women's Holiday Tea

Please join us at our 10th Annual Women's Holiday Tea taking place on Saturday, December 5th from 2:00PM to 5:30PM.  (Doors open at 1:30PM.  Program begins at 2:00PM).  This event will benefit programming for The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, a nonprofit organization providing comprehensive and long-term support services to youth of New York City. The Women's Holiday Tea is hosted by Gwynne Wilcox, a Co-Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol.  It is a time to network with other professional women and celebrate the work we do. We look forward to seeing you there! Click Here to Purchase Tickets! For sponsorship opportunities contact Veronica Hinds at  fundraising@brotherhood-sistersol.org or 212.283.7044.

Pictures from last year's Women's Holiday Tea. Photo credit: MalbroughPhotos  Click Here to purchase tickets.  For sponsorship opportunities contact Veronica Hinds at   fundraising@brotherhood-sistersol.org or 212.283.7044.

11/17/15 Awakening Our Democracy: Policing Bodies, Borders, and Rights at Columbia University, School of Law

The African American Policy Forum

Join November 17, 2015 at Columbia Law School to see #BlackLivesMatter's DeRay Mckesson, Barbara Arnwine, Kimberle Crenshaw and More on the Future of Our Democracy! RSVP - bit.ly/awakeningourdemocracy

Tweet your thoughts throughout the event to ‪#‎AwakeningOurDemocracy‬

FEATURING:
Barbara Arnwine (@barbs73), Transformative Justice Coalition
Dara Baldwin (@NJDC07), Public Policy Analyst, National Disability Rights Network
DeRay Mckesson (@deray), We The Protesters
James Forman Jr. (@JFormanJr), Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Samuel Rubin, Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Nicole Lee (@nicoleclee), Co-founder, Black Movement Law Project
Baher Azmy, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University; Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights

MODERATED BY:
Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks), Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

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Black Girl Movement Conference at the Institute for Research in African American Studies of Columbia University

BLACK GIRL MOVEMENT CONFERENCE

 

DATE & TIME: 

THURSDAY, APRIL 07, 2016 5:00PM

***SAVE THE DATE***

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April 7- 9, 2016

“Black Girl Movement: A National Conference” is a three-day gathering at Columbia University in New York City to focus on Black girls, cis, queer, and trans girls, in the United States.   Bringing together artists, activists, educators, policymakers, and black girls leaders themselves, this first national conference on Black girls seeks to address the disadvantages that Black girls in the United States face, while creating the political will to publicly acknowledge their achievements, contributions, and leadership.

Black girls are among the most significant cultural producers, community connectors, and trendsetters, rarely are their contributions recognized or appreciated. At best, they remain invisible in our public discourse or people assume that all Black girls are doing fine and are “resilient” enough to overcome any structural obstacles put in their way. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Black girls in the United States are in crisis. They face significant barriers to educational achievement, economic and political equality, and are the recipients of deeply embedded racial and gender biases in the media, public policy, philanthropy, and research. 

As a result, the planning of this conference has been done by an intergenerational and cross-institution coalition because the most innovative work being done on and with black girls often are in silos and without the full benefits of a collaboration, funding, and public visibility.  "Black Girl Movement" is an opportunity change that reality through raising public consciousness, advancing research, policy, and community programming, and developing a resource sharing platform.  Most importantly, this conference will highlight Black girls’ agency and ingenuity in order to elevate their voices and solutions toward improving the life outcomes of Black girls in the United States.

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Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus

The Black Girl Movement is proud to have the following organizations as Co-Sponsors.

Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Columbia University Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Columbia University Office of the President
Dean for Social Sciences Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
Fordham University African and African American Studies
A Long Walk Home
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Girls for Gender Equity

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IRAAS Conversations Lecture – “Feeling Arab and Black: Conversations about Race and Disability in Literature

IRAAS Conversations Lecture  Thursday March 26th, 2015 6:15pm -8:15pm Columbia School of Social Work – Room C03 “Feeling Arab and Black: Conversations about Race and Disability in Literature” with   Theri Pickens, Assistant Professor of English – Bates College  In her first book, New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States, Therí Pickens begins with following premise: In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. What can the experience of corporeality offer social and political discourse? And, how does that discourse change when those bodies belong to Arab Americans and African Americans? By way of answer, she argues that Arab American and African American narratives rely on the body’s fragility, rather than its exceptional strength or emotion, to create urgent social and political critiques. Suturing critical race studies, and disability studies, Pickens turns to Du Bois’s question “how does it feel to be a problem?” since it hovers over her book project. She zeroes in on the verb “to feel,” accepting the invitation for phenomenological inquiry. In this talk, she examines Du Bois’s question as a framework that opens up new possibilities in analyzing Arab American author Rabih Alameddine. Alameddine’s fiction not only lingers on what it means to ‘feel’ like a problem but also proffers the space of the hospital as a way to orient a critique. Side-stepping the erasure of “Arab as the new Black,” Pickens proffers the conversation between Du Bois and Alameddine as a way to answer the exigencies of feeling, and being now. Speaker Bio Her research focuses on Arab American and African American literatures and cultures, Disability Studies, philosophy, and literary theory. She authored New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States, which asks: How does a story about embodied experience transform from mere anecdote to social and political critique? Her critical work has appeared in MELUS, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Women & Performance, Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, Al-Jadid, Journal of Canadian Literature, Al-Raida, the ground-breaking collection, Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions, and the critical volume, Defying the Global Language: Perspectives in Ethnic Studies (Teneo Ltd). She also has more upcoming critical work in the journal, Hypatia. She is also a creative writer. Her poetry has appeared in Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Save the Date, and Disability Studies Quarterly. Her drama has been performed at the NJ State Theater. Join Our Mailing List! Contact Information Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, 758 Schermerhorn Ext – MC5512 New York, NY 10027 Email: iraas@columbia.edu