Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity

04/12/2023

Join us for our Surveillance & Cities panel with Simone Browne, Lilly Irani, Tawana Petty, and Shakeer Rahma to discuss how surveillance technologies have been used to target Black and brown communities. April 13 @ 3-4 PM, in-person only. RSVP: tinyurl.com/surveillance-cities

Our panel features scholars and community organizers focused on issues of surveillance. Through a panel discussion followed by a Q&A, we will discuss the impact of surveillance technologies and explore community activism efforts to challenge these systems in cities.

Many thanks to our co-sponsors for making this event possible: Stanford AAAS, Stanford Communication, Digital Civil Society Lab, Stanford EST Hub, Stanford STS, Stanford Symbolic Systems, Stanford Urban Studies.

Join us to discuss the impact of surveillance tech and community efforts to challenge these systems.

03/22/2023

Calling all California-based artists whose work is community-engaged and focuses on issues related to race and ethnicity! Applications are open for a year-long fellowship at Stanford working with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity / Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts.

Deadline: April 30, 2023 The Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CCSRE) and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA) at Stanford University invite artists who live and work in California to apply to be a 2023-2024 CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow.

03/17/2023

Please join us!

On April 13, join the Digital Civil Society Lab and the Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity for a Surveillance and Cities Panel exploring the impact of surveillance technologies—especially on Black and brown communities—with Simone Browne, Lilly Irani, Tawana Petty, and Shakeer Rahman.

Details and RSVP: https://stanford.io/3JLy2Fs

03/07/2023

Thursday March 9th at noon the Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity’s Research Institute welcomes Professor Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh (Religious Studies) for our Faculty Seminar Series. Professor Wells-Oghoghomeh will present “Left-Handed Medicine: Black Women, Religion, and Slavery” and will be in dialogue with Professor Rose Salseda (Art & Art History) The seminar takes place in the CCSRE Conference Room. Register to attend here: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/1u4VHAHQsvN6SmtYHtkj9q1QlFFM4yhqHbvFyKBzLsQQ/viewform?edit_requested=true

02/28/2023

Two more days until the extraordinary writer & scholar Viet Thanh Nguyen joins us to deliver the 18th Annual Kieve Lecture - March 1 at 7 pm Stanford University Memorial Church. Free and open to the public.
Register here:
https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dmRjrkSMyyvycg6

02/15/2023

This Thursday, February 16, 2023 at noon, the Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity is pleased to host Alyce S. Adams, Stanford Medicine Innovation Professor (Stanford Medicine), for our next Faculty Seminar Series. Dr. Adams will be presenting her work "Policy Strategies for Addressing Disparities in Health Outcomes," with a response by Dr. Shawna Lee, Postdoctoral Fellow (Stanford Medicine). The seminar takes place in the CCSRE Conference Room, Building 360, Stanford University. Scan the QR code below to RSVP. See you there!

08/03/2022

SAVE THE DATES: 2022 CCSRE Ernesto Galarza/Al Camarillo Lecture

Film Screening, "Singing Our Way To Freedom," October 11th

Lecture by Espinosa Productions, "Reflections of a Chicano Filmmaker: Looking Back at Stories Told," October 12th

*Both events take place at Oshman Hall, McMurtry Bldg, Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, at 6:30pm*

RSVP for either or both events at https://bit.ly/GalarzaCamarilloLecture

Co-sponsored by Stanford Latino Alumni Association

07/27/2022

Earlier this month, CCSRE Director Paula Moya was interviewed about the banning of books on the podcast "Philosophy Talk." Listen to a preview or download the episode at https://conta.cc/3J8qwSU