Relations and Divides in a Diverse City
Date: March 5th, 2020
Time: 4:00 - 7:00 pm
This one day symposium explores relations between ethnic communities and their implications for the city of Houston. To guide this conversation, we invite Professor Jennifer Jones, author of The Browning of the New South , as our keynote speaker along side a panel of other scholars and members of the Houston community.
To register please see link below.
https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/77187
Writing Across Intersections
Date: September 9th, 2020
Time: 6:00 pm
In this lecture, Bryan Washington — the newly appointed Scholar in Residence for Racial Justice at Rice and the George Guion Williams Writer in Residence in the Department of English — will talk about his experience writing essays and nonfiction at the intersections of race and setting in a dynamic cultural climate, with an emphasis on the pull writers' geography exerts on their work. Following his remarks, Washington will be open to questions from the audience.
This online event is open to the public and Rice Community. Register today to receive your Zoom Webinar link.
Restorative Justice Archaeology
Date: September 24th, 2020
Time: 7:00 pm
Alicia Odewale, assistant professor of Anthropology, University of Tulsa, will present "Restorative Justice Archaeology: Unearthing the Aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre." Jeffrey Fleisher, associate professor of Anthropology, Rice, and a member of the Center for African and African American Studies steering committee, will provide introductory remarks and Daniel Domingues, associate professor of History and the center's director of undergraduate studies, will moderate a Q&A. Sponsors: Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice, Center for African and African American Studies, BRIDGE (Building Research on Inequality and Diversity to Grow Equity).
This online event is open to the public and Rice Community. Register today to receive your Zoom Webinar link.
On "Systemic Racism"
Date: October 21st, 2020
Time: 6:00 pm
In this talk, "What Makes 'Systemic Racism' Systemic?", Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University, will argue that racism is a structural feature of the United States. Jenifer Bratter, professor of Sociology at Rice, founding director of BRIDGE (Building Research on Inequality and Diversity to Grow Equity) and a member of the Center for African and African American Studies steering committee, will provide introductory remarks and Daniel Domingues, associate professor of History and the center's director of undergraduate studies, will moderate a Q&A. Sponsors: Center for African and African American Studies and BRIDGE.
This online event is open to the public and Rice Community. Register today to receive your Zoom Webinar link.
Prison Abolition, and a Mule
Date: November 10th, 2020
Time: 6:00 pm
Paul Butler, the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a legal analyst on MSNBC, will present, "Prison Abolition, and a Mule." Matthew Hayes, assistant professor of Political Science and a Center for African and African American Studies affiliated faculty member, will offer introductory remarks and Daniel Domingues, associate professor of History and the center's director of undergraduate studies, will moderate a Q&A. Sponsored by the Center for African and African American Studies, BRIDGE (Building Research on Inequality and Diversity to Grow Equity) and the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice, with support from the School of Humanities Dean’s Office.
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BRIDGE Lecture: Patrick Sharkey
Date: April 7th, 2021
Time: 4:00 pm
Over the past twenty-five years, American cities have transformed. Violence became less common in almost every city across the country, and it plummeted in many of our major urban centers. Sociologist Patrick Sharkey spent five years gathering national data to understand why it happened, and how it has changed the nature of urban inequality.
In this webinar, Patrick Sharkey will discuss his most recent book Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence and the ideas necessary to understand what shapes this shifting state of peace and how we might change the equation moving forward.
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BRIDGE Webinar: Dr. Camille Charles
Date: April 21st, 2021
Time: 4:00 pm
Join us for a webinar lecture with Dr. Camille Charles as she discusses her upcoming book titled, “Divergent Currents: The Diverse Origins of the New Black Elite”.
Professor Charles earned her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a project manager for the 1992-1994 Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality. Her research interests are in the areas of urban inequality, racial attitudes and intergroup relations, racial residential segregation, minorities in higher education, and racial identity; her work has appeared in Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Science Research, The DuBois Review, the American Journal of Education, the Annual Review of Sociology, the Chronicle of Higher Education and The Root.
This event is free and open to the public and Rice Community. Register today to receive your Zoom Webinar link.
BRIDGE WORKSHOP EXPLORES COVID-19, SYSTEMIC RACISM AND PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE
On April 30, 2021 Kamala Viswewaran, Professor of Anthropology at Rice, and Karrie Karahalios, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana held a day-long BRIDGE workshop on "Covid 19, Vulnerable Communities, and Public Health Surveillance" to address the impact of emerging epidemic technologies upon vulnerable communities. With a drastic shortage of contact tracers around the country, participants deliberated the new digital contact tracing (GAEN) exposure notification apps installed on all Google and Apple phones, and in use on a number of U.S. college campuses and public health departments (as well as in Asia and Europe). The workshop included community organizations, public health officials, social scientists and computer scientists who had developed some of these apps. They explored differing perspectives of what digital contact tracing looks like by considering challenges to the concept of privacy, community experiences of surveillance and vulnerability during the pandemic, and the question of how effective technology was to be judged. None of the participants felt the Bluetooth apps, which went into operation without proof of concept, had performed well, due both to technical issues and lack of adoption Participants also raised the issue of systemic racism to address the underlying questions of social exclusion and inequality that have both fueled the pandemic and led to its disproportionate impact. Which tools can address what questions? Does the analysis of systemic racism ask for different tools? A two-page summary of digital contact-tracing apps can be found here, and a resource list on the subject here. Planning is underway for a public-facing event next year that would extend discussion of themes addressed in the workshop.
BRIDGE Lecture: Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts
Date: May 12th, 2021
Time: 4:00 pm
Join us for a webinar lecture with Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts as she discusses her recent work on growing success in diverse organizations and her talk titled, “Toward a Racially Just Workplace: Three Zones of Action for Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice”.
Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts is an innovative global scholar, speaker and consultant on the science of maximizing human potential in diverse organizations and communities. Her thought leadership in diversity, authenticity and leadership development has been recognized by LinkedIn (Top 10 Voice in Equity; 2020); ThinkList #Amplify (2020), and the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Award for Societal Impact (2020). Laura has published over fifty research articles, teaching cases, and practitioner-oriented tools for strategically activating best selves through strength-based development, workplace equity and inclusion. Laura has co-edited three books: Race, Work and Leadership (2019 Axiom Business Book Award winner); Positive Organizing in a Global Society; and Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations. She has also self-published The Alignment Quest™ Toolkit for Activating Best Selves and several poetry collections. Laura is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and the Academy of Management Review, and is regularly quoted in global media outlets.
This event is open to the public and Rice Community. Register today to receive your Zoom Webinar link.