The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace is excited about our upcoming events in September. You can read more about them in this post, and also register to attend by following the title links.
September 14, 2021, 12pm
Reading Monuments, Marking Turf, and Embedding Memories.
Kirsten Mullen, Folklorist, Founder Artefactual, Founder Carolina Writers Circuit
The presentation is focused on monuments and memory and what is to be done with the 2,000+ Confederate monuments and memorials still on display in the US.
Speaker Bio:
Kirsten Mullen is a folklorist and the founder of Artefactual, an arts-consulting practice, and Carolina Circuit Writers, a literary consortium that brings expressive writers of color to the Carolinas. She was a member of the Freelon Adjaye Bond concept development team that was awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s commission to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Under the auspices of the North Carolina Arts Council she worked to expand the Coastal Folklife Survey. As a faculty member with the Community Folklife Documentation Institute, she trained students to research and document the state’s African American music heritage. Kirsten was a consultant on the North Carolina Museum of History’s “North Carolina Legends” and “Civil Rights” exhibition projects. Her writing can be found in museum catalogs and journals, and in commercial media—and includes “Black Culture and History Matter” (The American Prospect), which examines the politics of funding black cultural institutions. She is co-author with William Darity of the forthcoming book, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-first Century (University of North Carolina Press).
This event is co-sponsored by the Phillips Collection and the Critical Race Initiative.
September 15, 2021, 2pm
Critical Race Theory: Public Debates and Teaching in the Classroom
The discussion will be moderated by Professor Rashawn Ray, David M. Rubenstein Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The panel also features Professor Crystal Marie Fleming, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at SUNY Stony Brook and Professor Victor Ray, F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies, The University of Iowa.
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Crystal Marie Fleming is a critical race sociologist, the author of three books and an internationally recognized expert on racism and antiracism. Her work empowers people of all backgrounds to become change agents and dismantle white supremacy. She is Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at SUNY Stony Brook where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on racism and ethnic relations, sociological theory and qualitative methods. Dr. Fleming’s passion for speaking truth to power and promoting social transformation infuses her scholarship, writing and pedagogy. She earned a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in Sociology from Harvard University and graduated with honors in Sociology and French from Wellesley College. Her research appears in leading journals such as Social Problems, The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Poetics, Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race and Mindfulness.
Dr. Victor Ray’s research applies critical race theory to classic sociological questions. He is currently working on two book manuscripts: a project focused on race and organizational theory and an edited volume (co-edited with Jennifer Mueller) on race and sociological theory writ large. His work has been published in the American Sociological Review, American Behavioral Scientist, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Contexts, Ethnic and Racial Studies, The Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and Sociological Theory. In addition to this research, Victor is also an active public scholar, publishing commentary in outlets such as The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Boston Review. Victor’s work has been funded by the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, among others.
Moderator Bio:
Dr. Rashawn Ray is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at The Brookings Institution. He is also a Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is one of the co-editors of Contexts Magazine: Sociology for the Public. Formerly, Ray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and he currently serves on the National Advisory Committee for the RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars Program. Ray regularly testifies at the federal and state levels on racial equity, policing and criminal justice reform, health policy, wealth, and family policy. Ray has published over 50 books, articles, and book chapters, and roughly 50 op-eds. He has written for Washington Post, New York Times, Business Insider, Newsweek, NBC News, The Guardian, The Hill, Huffington Post, The Conversation, and Public Radio International. Ray has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, BBC, CBS, C-Span, PBS, NPR, HLN, and Al Jazeera. His research is cited in Washington Post, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Root, and The Chronicle. Previously, Ray served on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Planning Committee and the Commission on Racial Justice with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
The chair is co-sponsoring the panel discussion organized by the Anti-Black Racism Initiative
The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace Annual Lecture 2021
September 30, 2021, 1pm
‘Breaking the Spell of the Welfare State?’: Public Culture in Neoliberalism’s Gender Regime
Professor Angela McRobbie, Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths University of London and Professor of Cultural Studies, Coventry University UK
Speaker Bio:
Angela McRobbie (FBA) is Prof. Emer at Goldsmiths University of London and Prof of Cultural Studies at Coventry University UK. Her most recent books are Feminism and the Politics of Resilience (2020), Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries (2016) and The Aftermath of Feminism (2009). She is currently completing Fashion as Creative Industry: Micro enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan (2022), and she will complete a trilogy of works on feminist theory in 2023 Critical Feminist Pedagogies: Essays in Cultural Theory .
We have more events coming up in October and November, which will be announced soon. Be sure to follow us on social media @bahaichair and visit our website to stay updated on all we have planned for the semester.
About the Author:
Kate Seaman is the Assistant Director to the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace where she supports the research activities of the Chair. Kate is interested in understanding normative changes at the global level and how these changes impact on the creation of peace.
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