Race, Migration, & Indigeneity at Indiana University, Bloomington

AFFRILACHIAN POETS - Nov. 4-5 at Cook Center (Maxwell Hall).
Meet an ensemble of writers who challenge notions of an all-white Appalachian region and culture. This three-part public program includes a screening and discussion of the film, "Coal Black Voices," a poetry reading, and a panel discussion. Additionally, poet and Professor Frank X Walker will offer a free creative writing masterclass (registration required).
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IU Arts and Humanities Council
Writers Guild at Bloomington
Morgenstern Books
Collins Living-Learning Center, Indiana University

Indiana University is pleased to announce the hire of Eunice Lee, currently a doctoral candidate in Literature at the University of California at San Diego. Lee’s research exists at the convergences of U.S. empire, militarism, and global environmental degradation. She follows transnational circuits of goods, capital, and culture to show how diasporic and and Indigenous communities make sense of and resist the harms of slow death brought on by the meatpacking industries and radioactive materials. Lee will begin a position as an assistant professor jointly appointed by the Department of American Studies and the Program in Asian American Studies this fall. Welcome, Professor Lee!

Eunice Lee Faculty profile for Eunice Lee, Assistant Professor of American Studies in the IU College of Arts + Sciences.

Liza Black, assistant professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies and History, is one of 5 recipients of the IU Outstanding Junior Faculty award! Congratulations, Liza!

5 named Outstanding Junior Faculty The award identifies promising tenure-track faculty who have not yet been awarded tenure and provides resources to further develop their research programs...

Professor Liza Black is presenting from new research this Friday.

We have lots of exciting seminars scheduled for the last two weeks of the semester. It's aggravating, but two of them are at exactly the same time this Friday, Dec. 3rd. So, at noon on Friday, you can either join a discussion of Professor Liza Black's new work on missing and murdered indigenous women in the U.S. History Workshop or Professor Mark Roseman's "The Holocaust, Jews, and Modernity" in the European History Workshop (joint meeting with Jewish Studies). In the future, we will try to make sure the continents have their seminars on different days and times! Details below.

For a copy of Professor Black's paper and access to the zoom link, please contact PhD candidate Lizzie Spaeth at espaeth AT iu DOT edu.

Professor Roseman's paper is accessible on the European History Workshop site on Canvas. The seminar will meet in person in GISB 4067. Arrangements have also been made for Zoom attendance; see link in the comments.

THIS THURSDAY, November 11th, 9:30am in the IMU Walnut Room!

The Asian American Studies Program invites all to a talk with Eric Langowski who will be speaking about his efforts to get IUB to acknowledge its wartime mistreatment of Japanese Americans. Part of his efforts include an article published in the Indiana Magazine of History, titled “Education Denied: Indiana University’s Japanese American Ban, 1942 to 1945.”

To RSVP, please email [email protected]

Check out the article: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/indimagahist.115.2.01

Additionally, as a result of this research, a new plaque has been placed on the IUB campus and a dedication ceremony will be held November 12th at the Hamilton Lugar School.

RSVP here: https://universityevents.iu.edu/rsvp-event-forms/2021-event-forms/ban-dedication-111221.html?fbclid=IwAR0y7WZxbplbR4-HPQoLptwcomzIlBNk5kzPgZ52NiqOOh0eLiBMN1fDnPg

Please join us for a dedication of the memorial which expresses Indiana University’s statement of regret for denying admission to 12 Japanese American students during World War II.

Parking is available in the East Parking Garage. Those already on campus are encouraged to walk.

For the health and safety of the IU community, masks are currently required at indoor events.

For accessibility assistance, or if you have inquiries about this event, please phone Lynn Waugh at (812) 855-3413 or email [email protected].

Office of the Provost

Black, Hispanic and Asian American donors give more to social and racial justice causes as well as strangers in need – new survey Larger shares of Asian, Black and Hispanic people are donating to these nonprofits, compared with white donors. They are also more likely to give to others through less formal channels.

We have some EXTREMELY exciting news to share this morning. Professor Ellen Wu has been named a "New America" Fellow for 2022.

On Tuesday 9/21, join Vasti Torres, Ebelia Hernández, and Sylvia Martínez for their talk regarding there recent book, “Understanding the Latinx Experience: Developmental and Contextual Influences.”

The event is free and open to all! Register here: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclfuCopjwsH9UIAlBK6k3xCJ4zitEfcsj8

Second 8-weeks fall course available for registration now!

Join the Asian American Studies Program, the Race, Migration, and Indigeneity Program, and the College Office of Diversity and Inclusion for The Joy of Congee: A Conversation on Food and Activism with Alice Wong and Sandy Ho on September 30, 2021 from 7:00 - 8:00 PM EST. This will be a virtual conversation with community organizers and disability justice activists, Alice Wong and Sandy Ho. They will discuss food, joy, and sustenance in these times, their work as community organizers, and how that sustains them. We hope to see you there! Register here: https://events.iu.edu/iub-diversity/event/214915-the-joy-of-congee-a-conversation-on-food-and

REMINDER: Please us at the AAADS Welcome and Student Reception on Friday September 3rd from 6-8pm, at Neal Marshall Grand Hall. We will introduce our new colleagues, Elena Guzman, Quito Swan, Maria Hamilton Abegunde, Nana Amoah-Ramey, Rachal Burton, and our new grad students. Food will be provided.

IU welcomes two postdoctoral fellows from the ACLS Emerging Voices program, Tempest Henning and Rachael Nez.

ACLS American Council of Learned Societies | www.acls.org - ACLS Emerging Voices Fellows In response to the severe economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, ACLS created the Emerging Voices Fellowship program to support early career scholars whose voices, perspectives, and broad visions will strengthen institutions of higher education and humanistic disciplines in the years to...

Congratulations to Associate Professor Sylvia Martinez, who has been honored by the Latino Faculty and Staff Council with the Faculty Award for 2021.

“As a Latina, I pursued my Ph.D. to increase access to higher education for Latinx youth. Since then, my work has also focused on the conditions of higher education for Latinx students and faculty, so it means so much to be recognized for this work," she said.

Read more: https://education.indiana.edu/news/2021/jan-jun/2021-06-24-sylvia-martinez-award.html

Wong wins faculty mentor award Joel Wong, Department Chair of Counseling and Education Psychology, has won the 2020-2021 Faculty Mentor Award from the University Graduate School.

CRRES welcomes 2021 Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Aleshia Barajas and Dr. Juan Ignacio Mora: News: Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society A research center of the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University Bloomington:... This is a news page.

Our very own Ellen Wu is featured on this list of reading suggestions from the Obama Foundation.

This May, the Foundation is celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This year’s celebration lands at a solemn moment, as violence and xenophobia against Asian American individuals and communities has seen a dramatic increase in the past year.

Since the earliest days of Asian settlement, the Asian American story has been one of exclusion, invisibility, misconceptions, and conditional citizenship. But that story has also been one of triumphs, both seen and unseen, and a movement toward community and acceptance in this country. The AANHPI community itself is a patchwork of cultures and identities that have emerged from vastly different countries of origin, spread across the Asian continent and the Pacific region. Thanks to the pioneering work of activists in these communities in the 1960s, and to the solidarity between these groups, Asian Americans have seen greater progress toward civil rights and representation across the United States in the decades since.

Here at the Foundation, members of the AANHPI community hold crucial positions across our organization. To mark AANHPI Heritage Month, several Obama Foundation staff members compiled a special reading list to celebrate the many cultures and stories within the AANHPI community—one that includes poetry, memoirs, fiction, and everything in between. In these books you can see faces, hear voices, and bear witness to communities that often go unseen, but have played a crucial role in moving America towards a more perfect union throughout our history.

We hope you'll take a look:

BIPOC students to present art and performances Saturday at BIPOC Bash The event will be put on by student theater groups May 1.

On Friday, April 30, 2021, at 12:00 p.m. (EST), join CRRES Affiliate Dr. Koji Chavez as he speaks about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hiring discrimination.

To learn more about Dr. Chavez's research, visit
https://crres.indiana.edu/research/research-briefs/2021-01-chavez.html

To register, visit
https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtf-CgqzkuGdQa6ltN4O32j6hd8w923LKd

5 receive inaugural Inclusive Excellence Award at IU Bloomington The award recognizes faculty who contribute to the continued enhancement of a diverse campus community.

The time has come -- THIS FRIDAY (4/30) will be the final installment of this year's CRRES symposium series. The two-session day will feature our brilliant undergraduate students' research projects through their involvement with the CRRES Undergraduate Research Program and social media internship. We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information about the conference format and theme, visit
https://crres.indiana.edu/events/research-symposium/index.html