Statement in Solidarity with Anti-Racist Efforts from CRGC
The faculty of the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies join with protesters across the world to denounce police brutality and systemic anti-Black violence.
Battelle Tompkins , Room T-23 on a map
Critical RGC Studies 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20016-8144 United StatesThe Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies (CRGC) is a vibrant and inclusive community of faculty and students that explores diverse voices, histories, and experiences through socially engaged scholarship:
Feb 26, 7:30 - 8:30 pm EST, via zoom
This is an informal session to introduce both current AU students and potential first year students to the African American & African Diaspora Studies (AFAM) major and minor in the Critical Race, Gender, & Culture Studies Department.
The African American and African Diaspora Studies program offers a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum that provides students with an understanding of the historical and contemporary realities of African-descended peoples in the United States and across the diaspora. Students explore Black social movements and race politics, racial ideologies and critical race theory, and the distinctive artistic, literary, cultural practices of African peoples worldwide.
Professors will present on their research, we will talk about upcoming Fall 2021 African American & African Diaspora Studies classes, and current AFAM seniors will speak as well.
There will also be time for Q & A.
CRGC is proud to co sponsor this event series with the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.
Learn more and register for the Thinking Freedom from the Global South Speaker Series
Curatorial Evolutions: Insights from Two Exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Mar 19, 2:30 - 3:45 pm ET, via zoom
Focusing on the exhibitions, Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa and I Am... Contemporary Women Artists of Africa, Senior Curator Karen E. Milbourne will explore her own navigations of working with Africa's artists, understanding the history of collections in the United States, responding to timely topics with the arts, and creating sustainable initiatives within a museum.
Apr 26, 8 - 9:30 pm EST, via zoom
In this workshop CRGC faculty members will offer an overview of the application process for graduate school (with a focus on CRGC-related PhD programs). We will discuss the pros and cons of going to graduate school, how to build a strong application, and provide some resources. Come meet other students thinking about grad school!
Dec 2, 8:30 - 10 pm EST, via zoom
In this workshop CRGC faculty members will offer an overview of the application process for graduate school (with a focus on CRGC-related PhD programs). We will discuss the pros and cons of going to graduate school, how to build a strong application, and provide some resources. Come meet other students thinking about grad school!
Oct 29 7:00 pm EST
Join us for an invited talk with Professor Rabab Abdulhadi of San Francisco State University, facilitated by Prof. Irene Calis & Prof. Zein El Amine.
In this moment, as calls for social justice around the world deepen, the issue of Palestinian human rights remains unspeakable in the US. Palestinian voices are systemically not allowed to be heard. This pervasive silencing, including on college and university campuses, operates through intimidation, bullying, criminalizing, lawsuits, policing, and smearing. In practical terms, this has meant jobs rescinded, funding withheld, events shutdown, livelihoods denied. Join us as Professor Rabab Abdulhadi speaks to this moment and why working for Palestinian social justice remains the last taboo, the enduring exception to that cornerstone of American civil liberties, the freedom to speak.
The event is sponsored by: AU's Chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine in conjunction with the following groups: UMD's Chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, B-Well, AU Pride, African Student Organization, Public Health Association, South Asian Student Association, Asian American Student Association, Ethiopian & Eritrean Student Union, Albanian Student Association, Black Student Union, AU Hawaii, Department of Sociology
Oct 20 1:00 pm EST
A conversation with Prof. Juan Cole about his most recent book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires. Learn more at JuanCole.com. Cosponsored by: The Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace; Arab World Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences; The AU Antiracist Research & Policy Center
Oct 14
This session explores ancient Chinese Daoist Qìgong, meaning “energy work” or “moving meditation,” and its usage in stimulating the immune system and strengthening internal organs from within the body. Participants will learn how to do Embryonic Breathing to build up their own immune systems. Sponsored by AU Department of Philosopy & Religion with CRGC co-sponsorship.
ASIA- 18 Sept Wednesday McDowell Formal 2:30 pm A Casual Conversation with a Zen Master
AWST- 23 September Monday 1 pm - 6 pm in SIS Founders Room Symposium
CRGC-25 September The Bridge 7:30 pm The Welcoming Stage
ASIA 3-October Thursday Letts Formal 1 pm - 2:30 pm Mind-Only Buddhism and the Ethics of Universal Liberation
AWST-21 October Monday Mona Makram-Ebeid 3 pm - 4:30 pm
AMST 22 October Tuesday 6 pm - 8 pm Voices of Youth < Letts Formal Lounge
AWST-23 October
AFAM-30 October coronation celebration
AMST-31 Oct planning meeting
AMST- 5 Nov 2- 4 pm lunch and learn
CRGC-
Join CRGC for a night of community, performance, pizza, and cafe drinks. Meet with faculty, reunite after winter break.
Location: The Bridge Cafe
Time: 7:30 - 9 pm
Come learn about the Asian Studies program, meet Asian Studies faculty members & hear how to combine Asian Studies with other majors. Enjoy Chinese catered dinner by Meiwah.
Location: McDowell Formal Lounge
Time: 6 - 8 pm
Join Arab World Studies and CRGC for this lecture followed by Q & A. Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Sahar Khamis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an expert on Arab and Muslim media, and the former Head of the Mass Communication Department in Qatar University. She is the co-author of the books: Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She is the co-editor of the book: Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation: Unfinished Gendered Revolutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Location: Hughes Formal Lounge
Time: 3 - 4:30 pm
Come learn about majors, minors, electives, and AU Core classes with The Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies Collaborative. Meet informally with professors and grab lunch too.
Location: Battelle Atrium
Time: 12 - 1:30 pm
Download your entry form. E-mail entry form and essay in a single pdf document to crgc@american.edu. For your e-mail subject please use "Asian Studies Essay Contest Entry." Must be a current American University Student in February 2020 to enter.
Location: crgc@american.edu
Time: 11:59 pm on February 29 *New Extended Deadline!
26 September Wednesday 3:30 pm - 5 pm McDowell Formal Lounge Is Justice Possible?: Arab and Muslim Americans in the Age of Trump
23 October Tuesday 6 pm - 8 pm McDowell Formal Lounge Voices of Youth
25 October Thursday 6 pm - 9 pm Kerwin 2 Asian Film Nights Series 1
1 November Thursday 6:45 pm - 8 pm MGC 315 Black LGBTQ Life in DC
13 November Tuesday 4 pm - 5:30 pm MGC 200 Muslim Women and White Femininity: Reenactment and Resistance Haneen al-Ghabra
28 November Wednesday 12:30 pm - 2 pm Battelle Atrium Activism & The AIDS Crisis: Remembering the Significance of OUT!
23 January The Bridge AU CRGC The Welcoming Stage
27 February Wednesday 7:30 pm - 9 pm Katzen Welcome Center Auditorium (2nd floor) BOOMscat
6 March Wednesday 6pm MGC 3-5 What’s the feminist frequency? with Anita Sarkeesian
26 March Tuesday 7:30 - 8:30 pm MGC 200 The Truth about Awiti with CP Patrick
28 March Thursday 2:30 - 4:30 pm Kay Lounge Unacknowledged Echoes of Black Women: Disrupting Sexual Violence
3 April 11 SOC co sponsored event Stonewall 50
9 April Tuesday 2:30 - 4pm Palestinian Short Film with filmmaker - Kerwin 2 -
10 April Wednesday 7:30 am - 6 pm Disability, Access, & Teaching: A One-Day Symposium
11 April Thursday 7 - 8:30 pm MGC 2 North Korean Refugees: Escape, Adjustments, and the Role of English
16 April Tuesday 5:30 - 7 pm McDowell Formal Sexual Science & Transgender China
Data is forthcoming
Prof. Morad Elsana's book Indigenous Land Rights in Israel:A Comparative Study of the Bedouin was published by Routledge in November 2020. He also recently wrote an op-ed published at the Middle East Institute about the Covid-19 pandemic among the Bedouins in Israel.
Prof. Katharina Vester has won a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the German government to support the writing of her next book, Bodies to Die for: Self-Help Ideology, Biopolitics, and Popular Culture.
Prof. K. Tyler Christensen published That Boy from Idaho, a collection of poems.
Prof. Elizabeth Rule has won a CAS Mellon Grant to support her book project Rebuilding the Tribal/First Nation: Mohawk Girls and the Indian Act. She also presented “Indigenous Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, Decolonizing” at AU’s Ann Ferren Teaching Conference.
Prof. Tanja Aho, Prof. Elizabeth Rule, and Prof. Maddox Pennington won a grant from the Center for Diversity and Inclusion to develop an Indigenous DC Field Trip Series which is available to all AU students this semester.
The faculty of the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies join with protesters across the world to denounce police brutality and systemic anti-Black violence.