Category: Live Events

  • An unmanageable Commodity to have imported into this white Country: Growing up Mixed-Race in India and Scotland, 1780-1830 Institute of Historical Research Senate House (Room 103) Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Tuesday, 2014-01-14, 17:15-19:15Z Ellen Filor University College London Seminar Series: Life-Cycles (Spring Term 2014) This seminar series will address issues relating to the life-cycle…

  • Fathers, Farmers, Fighters Leaders: The Robbins Family at War (Civil War Roundtable of the Rock Creek Nature Center) U.S. Park Service Rock Creek Nature Center 5200 Glover Road, NW Washington, D.C. 2014-01-04, 09:30 EST (Local Time) Marvin Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group The Robbinses lived across racial lines and along the borders of slavery.…

  • Professor Mark Christian on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Episode: #233 – Professor Mark Christian Wednesday, 2011-11-16, 22:00Z (17:00 EST, 14:00 PST) Mark Christian, Professor…

  • Science Fiction and Multiraciality: From Octavia Butler to Harry Potter Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Saturday, 2013-12-14, 14:00-17:00 EST (Local Time) How do science fiction narratives investigate questions about identity, racism, and fear? Join us for a fun, interactive presentation and dialogue about mixed-race identity in the Harry Potter franchise, the legacy of…

  • Colloquium: Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind University of Pennsylvania 103 McNeil Building 3718 Locust Walk Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6299 Wednesday, 2014-01-29, 12:00-13:00 EST (Local Time) Osagie K. Obasogie, Professor of Law University of California, Hastings College of the Law Professor Obasogie’s research attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological gaps between…

  • Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to the Genomic Age with Prof. Dorothy Roberts Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Brown University Steven Robert ’62  Campus Center, Petteruti Lounge 75 Waterman Street Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Tuesday, 2013-12-10, 17:30 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Democratization of Beauty?: Skin Bleaching, Skin Bronzing and the Global Market in Color Enhancement” University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-12-12, 10:30 PST (Local Time) France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara The seminar series “Race and…

  • Loving v. Virginia as a Civil Rights Decision Cosponsored by the Center for African American Studies and the Program in Law and Public Affairs 102 Jones Hall Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Monday, 2013-12-09, 12:00-13:20 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…

  • ‘Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature’: A Reading Denison University A. Blair Knapp Hall Room 201 300 Ridge Road Granville, Ohio 43023 Thursday, 2013-12-05, 16:30 EST (Local Time) The Women’s Studies Program welcomes Diana Mafe. The Women’s Studies Program welcomes Diana Mafe reading from her new book, Mixed Race Stereotypes in South…

  • Interracial Marriage and the Civil Rights Revolution: A Personal Journey The University of Pennsylvania Provost presents The Inaugural Provost’s Lecture on Diversity University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School Room 110 2013-11-13, 17:00-19:00 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of…