Contact Details
Nina Banks
Professor of Economics Affiliated Faculty in Critical Black Studies, Interim Director for CSREG
Location
130 Academic West Building
Speaker Series & Faculty Colloquia
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender (CSREG) facilitates University-wide discussion of issues of race, ethnicity and gender through events such as the annual Black Experiences Lecture and the annual speaker series, and co-sponsored film series, lectures and other campus-wide events. CSREG is comparative and international in scope and draws on a faculty whose research interests span the globe.
Upcoming Events
Annual Black Experiences Lecture
Since its inception, the Center has organized an annual Black Experiences Lecture that focuses primarily on the African American Experience and features a prominent scholar from a variety of disciplinary fields. Past speakers at this event have included Angela Davis, Christopher Edley, Kimberly Crenshaw, Wahneema Lubiano, Tricia Rose and, to name a few. This lecture series draws an audience consisting of students, faculty, administration and interested community members.
Tommy DeFrantz, Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2024 7:00—8:30 p.m., Elaine Langone Center, 272
Topic: Dancing the African Diaspora: Shared Memories and Memorializations in Motion
To dance is to re-member, with the body, past occurrences, circumstances, and possibilities. Dance operates like a language, but beyond the structures of comprehensible writing or speech. To dance might not be to proclaim or proselytise, but dancing might bring forward explicit modes of social encounter and social provocation. This talk focuses on modes of African American dance expression built from the social impulse to memorialise and remember pasts. Turf Dancing, Second-Line Dancing, Liturgical Dancing (Praise Dance) and selected theatrical dance works tilted towards the expression of a shared memory demonstrate how African American communities have moved through dance as a mode of social expression and memorialisation.
CSREG Speaker Series
CSREG’s speaker series is driven by faculty interests in organizing and bringing to campus outside scholars around a topic related to the Center’s mission. Funds and administrative support are available to the faculty organizer. Topics are wide ranging and the approach to the series is open in regards to what kinds of events and activities are included.
2024-25 Series: Asian and Arab Americans: Negotiating the Politics of Race, Identity and Belonging
In the spring of 2024, Moustafa Bayoumi (CUNY, Brooklyn) opened the series with a lecture entitled "Seriously, Why Am I Still Made to Feel Like a Problem?: Being Muslim in America," followed by a lunch discussion of his award-winning book, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?
The series continues through the 2024-25 academic year.
Natalie Masuoka, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies, UCLA
Thursday, Oct. 3, 11:30 a.m.
Student lunch
Thursday, Oct. 3, 7:00 p.m., ELC Forum (ELC 272)
Topic: Where do Asian Americans Fit? The Construction of Asian Americans as a Racialized Minority Group.
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Benjamin Barson, Assistant Professor of Music, Bucknell University
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 4:30 p.m., Traditional Reading Room (BERT 213)
Topic: Cultures of Asian Indenture: Musical Hybridity and Resistance in the Plantation Americas.
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Claire Kim, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, 7:00 p.m., ELC Forum
Topic: Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
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Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, 10:30 a.m
Book Discussion: Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
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Carol W.N. Fadda, Associate Professor in English, Syracuse University
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 7:00 p.m., ELC Forum (ELC 272)
Topic: US Anti-Racist Critique and Transnational Feminism at the Intersections of Asian American, Arab American, and SWANA Studies
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Fadda Faculty/Staff Colloquium
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 11:30 a.m., Traditional Reading Room
Topic: TBA
Faculty Colloquia
CSREG Faculty Colloquia provide a venue to celebrate and learn about the scholarship of Bucknell faculty. These talks can serve as a sounding board for works in progress, trial runs for conference presentations and when possible, serve as supplemental talks for our Speaker Series.
Cassie Osei, Assistant Professor of History
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, 4:30 p.m., Traditional Reading Room (BERT 213)
Weaponizing the Master's Tools? Sex Scams, Dubious Consent, and Newspaper Coverage of Black Domestic Workers in Post-War Brazil
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Benjamin Barson, Assistant Professor of Music
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, 4:30 p.m., Traditional Reading Room (BERT 213)
Cultures of Asian Indenture: Musical Hybridity and Resistance in the Plantation Americas