Category: Live Events

  • Mixing It Up: Supporting Multiracial Students in Racial Affinity Groups American College Personnel Association ACPA 2012 Annual Convention Louisville, Kentucky 2012-03-24 through 2012-03-28 Session Information: Wednesday, 2012-03-28 08:30-09:30 EDT (Local Time) Kentucky International Convention Center, 212 & 213 Heather C. Lou, FYE Coordinator University of Vermont Adam J. Ortiz, House Director Hampshire College Rachel Luna…

  • Littefield Lecture: The Free State of Jones: Community, Race, and Kinship in Civil War Mississippi Littlefield Lecture University of Texas, Austin Applied Computational Engineering & Sciences Building (ACE), Avaya Auditorium 2.302 2012-03-06, 16:00-18:00 CST (Local Time) Victoria Bynum, Professor Emerita Texas State University, San Marcos Dr. Bynum will be delivering this year’s Littlefield Lectures for…

  • Multiracial meditations The Portland State Vanguard Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 2012-02-13 Jeoffry Ray PSU panel to discuss growing up biracial in context of novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky How does one begin to discuss the experience of belonging to more than one “race”? It’s really up to the participants,” said Dr.…

  • Panel to discuss racism and medical issues The Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2012-02-10 Ariana Ricarte The topic of racism in health care, genetics and other medical issues will be the central point of discussion at a panel in De Neve Auditorium on Saturday [13:00-15:00 PST]. The panel, called “Race in Medicine: A…

  • Call for Papers: Association for Feminist Anthropology Sessions American Anthropological Association 2012-02-07 Posted by Josyln O. The Association for Feminist Anthropology welcomes sessions to be considered for inclusion in AFA’s programming for the 111th AAA Annual Meeting, to be held November 14-18, 2012 in San Francisco. The AAA meeting theme this year is “Borders,” so…

  • Film retells Lovings’ love story The Free Lance-Star Fredericksburg, Virginia 2012-02-06 Jonas Beals Mildred and Richard Loving were probably the last people you would expect to make legal history, but in 1967 they won a U.S. Supreme Court case that nullified laws against interracial marriage in Virginia and the 15 other states that still banned…

  • ‘The Loving Story’ to premiere in Caroline County The Free Lance-Star Fredericksburg, Virginia 2012-02-04 Jonas Beals Caroline County will get the red-carpet treatment Saturday evening. HBO, Comcast and the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia are hosting an invitation-only screening of the new HBO documentary “The Loving Story” at the Caroline County Community Services Center.…

  • Lecture Series. Multiculturalism and Miscegenation in the Construction of Latin America’s Cultural Identity   Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 101 International Studies Building 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign, Illinois 2012-02-23, 12:00 CST (Local Time) Eduardo Coutihno, Distinguished Lemann Visiting Professor of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign…

  • Mixed Race Studies with Steve Riley BlogtalkRadio: Is That Your Child? 2012-01-20, 19:30 EST/16:30 PST; [2012-01-21, 00:30Z] Michelle McCrary, Host ITYC welcomes creator, founder and editor of the site Mixed Race Studies.org Steve Riley to the podcast this week. In his words, Riley began Mixed Race Studies in April of 2009 “in recognition of our…

  • The Man Who Talks Not: John L. Clarke and the Politics of Mixed-Race Identity in Montana, 1900-1950 United States History Colloquium 2011-2012 University of California, Los Angeles History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall 2012-01-19, 16:00-18:00 PST (Local Time) Andrew Graybill, Associate Professor of History Southern Methodist University A Pre-circulated Paper and Discussion with Professor Andrew…