Category: Live Events

  • Negotiating Identities: Mixed Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea University of San Francisco McLaren Complex – MC 250 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, California 94117-1080 2016-04-14 through 2016-04-15 The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce its spring symposium Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea,…

  • Hybrid Details: Honoring Fred Wah: with Fred Wah, Wo Chan, Mark Nowak and Jeff Derksen Asian American Writers’ Workshop 112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor New York, New York 11366 Wednesday, 2016-04-13, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Poet Fred Wah is a living legend in Canada, but he remains woefully under-read in this country. To remedy…

  • Allyson Hobbs discusses A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Monday, 2016-04-11, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University Allyson Hobbs discusses the paperback release of her book A Chosen Exile:…

  • Voices of Diversity Presents “One Drop of Love” at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Jeanné Wagner Theatre Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center 138 West 300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Tuesday, 2016-03-29, 18:00-20:00 MDT (Local Time) 10th Anniversary of the Social Justice Lecture Series: Allies for Equity Presented by Voices of Diversity of The University of…

  • Screening and Discussion of Race: The Power of an Illusion, Episode 1 Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Monday, 2016-03-28, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Join us for the first in a series of screenings and discussions of the thought-provoking PBS series Race: The Power of An Illusion, which uses science, history,…

  • Who is Black? Who is Indian? State/Federal Acknowledgment and the Politics of Racial Purity Arizona State University West Hall, Room 135 Tempe, Arizona 2016-03-21, 16:30-18:00 MST (Local Time) Arica Coleman, adjunct lecturer, Center for African Studies, Johns Hopkins University African and African American History, Widener University, will discuss the politics of racial purity in state…

  • Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile, in conversation with Helena Brantley Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, California 94025 Tuesday, 2016-03-15, 19:30 PDT (Local Time) Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler’s Books Join us for a look back at the history of racial passing, and a topical discussion of race and identity…

  • Mixed-Race Politics: Bill de Blasio’s 2013 New York City Mayoral Campaign University of Michigan Haven Hall, Room 4701 505 State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, 2016-03-14, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Michelle May-Curry American Culture Please join the Black Humanities Collective as we workshop a presentation by Michelle May-Curry, a doctoral student in American Culture. Dinner…

  • 2016 Duke Global Brazil Conference Duke University Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse Durham, North Carolina 2016-03-04, 09:00-17:30 EST (Local Time) Co-sponsored by FHI Global Brazil Lab and the Duke Brazil Initiative Invited guests include: Keynote: Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (USF) – The Color of Love in Bahia Dr. John Collins…

  • Speaker: Allyson Hobbs Colgate University 27 Persson Hall 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, New York 13346 Monday, 2016-03-21, 16:15-18:15 EDT (Local Time) Contact: Diane English 315-228-7511 Guest speaker Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Stanford University will give a lecture entitled: “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life”, Monday,…