Events
White Riots: The Hidden History of White “Race Riots” in the Urban North,
1946-1962
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
2:30 - 4:00 PM
Paul Robeson Gallery
When black people rioted, the television cameras rolled. What happened when white people rioted? Come hear Professor Beryl Satter explain the difference between media coverage of white and black riots–and why this difference matters.
This event is co-sponsored by the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience; Department of History; and the Paul Robeson Gallery.
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH MARCH 2008
4th Annual Women's Studies Symposium:
Women Redefining the Politics of Power
Friday, March 28, 2008
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Rooms 255 - 257
Paul Robeson Campus Center
Speakers:
Nia H. Gill (State Senator, New Jersey)
Cynthia McKinney (Former Congresswoman, Georgia)
Tanya K. Hernandez (George Washington University Law School)
Nia H. Gill has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 2002, where she represents the 34th Legislative District. She is the Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee. Gill is recognized as being one of the leading abortion rights advocates in New Jersey politics. She took opposition to override the then-Governor Christie Whitman's veto of the New Jersey Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997 in the New Jersey Assembly. Gill received a B.A. in History/Political History from Upsala College and was awarded a J.D. from the Rutgers University School of Law. She is an attorney with the firm of Gill & Cohen, P.C. together with fellow Assembly member Neil M. Cohen.
Cynthia A. McKinney served as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and from 2005 to 2007, representing Georgia's 4th Congressional District. She left the Democratic Party in 2007 and created an exploratory committee for a Green Party presidential campaign. McKinney is Georgia's first African-American Congresswoman and the only woman serving in the state's congressional delegation. She advocates for voting rights, human rights and the strengthening of business ties between Africa and the U.S. McKinney earned a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California and is currently working to complete her dissertation in international relations at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Tanya K. Hernandez earned an A.B. in sociology from Brown and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She joined the George Washington University Law faculty in 2007, after a decade of teaching at Rutgers University Law-Newark, and St. John's University School of Law. She teaches courses on property, trusts and estates, critical race theory, and race and the law. Hernandez's scholarly interest is in the study of comparative race relations, and her work has been published in the California Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and many other publications.
The Women's Studies Symposium is sponsored by the Departments of African-American and African Studies; English; History; Political Science; Sociology & Anthropology; the Graduate Program in American Studies; the Organization of Black Faculty and Staff; and the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience.
PROGRAM
9:30 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
Morning Session
10:00 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Sherri-Ann Butterfield
Acting Director, Women's Studies Program
Marcia Brown
Vice-Provost, Student and Community Affairs
Jan Ellen Lewis
Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Newark
History of Women's Studies
Frances Bartkowski
Associate Professor, English and Founding Member of Women's Studies Program
10:30 a.m.
Morning Keynote Lecture
Introduction: Belinda Edmondson, Associate Professor, African-American and
African Studies and English
Nia H. Gill
11:30 a.m.
UNITY Workshop
12:30 p.m.
Luncheon
Afternoon Session
1:30 p.m.
Afternoon Keynote Lecture
Introduction: Elizabeth (Lisa) Hull, Professor and Chairperson, Political Science
Cynthia McKinney
2:30 p.m.
Second Afternoon Keynote Lecture
Introduction: Mara Sidney, Associate Professor, Political Science
Tanya Hernandez
"The Power of Examining the Mutual Construction of Race and Gender"
3:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Sherri-Ann Butterfield
Reception
Through Their Eyes:
Stories of the Consequences of Global Unrest and Those Who Live Through Them
Monday, March 10, 2008
11:30 AM - 12:50 PM
Dana Room, Dana Library
Speaker:
Natalie Jesionka is an international correspondent for South African and Korean Broadcasting stations. Over the last five years, Ms. Jesionka worked closely with United Nations and Amnesty International to promote global human rights through media and film. Her work includes reporting on human trafficking in Southeast Asia, civil uprising in Burma, and most recently, political violence in Kenya.
Currently, Ms. Jesionka is working with non-profit organizations and women's universities in Asia, to develop a curriculum focused on the challenges women encounter when reporting from high-risk zones, and the second-hand trauma journalists face when covering crisis situations.
Ms. Jesionka serves as the Executive Director of the PRIZM project, a global human rights education organization for young women (http://www.prizmproject.org).
This presentation commemorates International Women's Day and is sponsored by the Women's Studies Program; the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience; the Department of English; the Graduate Program in American Studies; and the Department of African-American and African Studies.
Refreshments will be provided.
Beats, Rhymes & Sex(ism): Hip Hop & Political Action
Monday, March 3, 2008
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Union Room # 257
Paul Robeson Campus Center
Speakers:
Rosa A. Clemente (Hip Hop Journalist, Political Activist, Radio Personality)
Ewuare X. Osayande (Poet, Political Activist, Award-winning Author)
Refreshments will be provided.
