Race & Ethnicity Colloquium

Welcome!

Welcome to the homepage for the English Department's Graduate Colloquium on Race and Ethnicity. 

Our most basic aim is to provide a collaborative space and intellectual network for doctoral students working on projects related to critical race and ethnic studies, transnationalism and postcolonialism, and migration and human rights—as well as various other perspectives—across broad periods and geographies of literary history. We hope to accomplish this goal in three ways: by building community among graduate students, by inviting relevant guest speakers to present ground-breaking research, and by giving graduate students opportunities to workshop their own research. 

Please check back for more information about our upcoming events. In the meantime, please feel free to get in touch with questions or suggestions! 

Looking forward,

Jordan Taliha McDonald and Wyatt Sarafin

Race and Ethnicity Colloquium Co-Coordinators

Glenda Carpio and Jesse McCarthy

Race and Ethnicity Colloquium Faculty Sponsors

UPCOMING EVENTS

Fall 2023

Reading Group

Readings: TBA

Speakers

Guest Speakers: TBA

Spring 2023

Speakers

March 31 at 12:00p.m.

Guest Speaker: Ren Ellis Neyra (Wesleyan), "Figurative Limits"

Fall 2022

Reading Group

We're reading Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning In An Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson. Book Club Meetings are (tentatively) scheduled for Wednesdays at 6:30 pm in Barker 012. 

For Book Club resources, see R&E's Google Drive

Speakers

Wednesday, November 16 at 6:30 p.m., (Room TBA) 

Guest Speaker: Kimberly Juanita Brown (Dartmouth), (Presentation Title TBA)

Friday, November 11 at 6:30 p.m., (Room TBA) 

Guest Speaker:  Tyrone S. Palmer (Wesleyan), (Presentation Title TBA)

Thursday, September 29 at 6 p.m., Plympton Room (Barker 133)

Guest Speaker: Jonathan Howard (Yale), "The Blueness of Blackness"

Co-sponsored by the Long 20th Century Colloquium.