Recent Events

Greetings From Asbury Park 
Film and Discussion with filmmaker Christina Eliopoulos
Monday, December 3rd, 2007 @ 5:30 p.m.

Crimnal Differences:
Race & Ethnicity in Detention, Juvenile Court, and American Justice
Roundtable Discussion
Friday, October 26, 2007 @ 12:00 p.m.

2nd Annual Faculty Forum
A One Day Colloquium 
Friday, October 5, 2007 @ 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Documenting Immigrant Experiences in NJ Communities 
Roundtable Discussion
Friday, April 20, 2007 @ 12:00 p.m.

White Privilege and Unconscious Bias
Roundtable Discussion 
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 @ 12:00 p.m.

Crash [2005]
Film and Discussion with Ben Sifuentes, American Studies
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 @ 7:00 p.m.

Keynote Lecture--Kwame Anthony Appiah 
"West of What?" 
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 @ 4:30 p.m.

Katrina, New Orleans, Race, and the Fate of the Nation 
A Forum for Cross Disciplinary Exchange 
May 12-13, 2006

Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University
Home Who We Are Mission Calendar Additional Resources Teaching Race & Ethnicity Across the Disciplines News & Recent Events Upcoming Events Links Contact Us	Recent Events	CRE in the News Associate Director Mia Bay published To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells with Macmillan Press in February 2009. Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women’s rights advocate, and journalist. Historian Bay vividly captures Wells’s legacy and life, from her childhood in Mississippi to her early career in late nineteenth-century Memphis and her later life in Progressive-era Chicago. "Old Story, Updated: Better Living Through Pills," an essay by Center director Keith Wailoo, was recently featured in the New York Times. Director Keith Wailoo was recently elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of four learned academies that advise the government on scientific matters. He is one of 65 new members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Its members are frequently called upon to advise the federal government to shape policies affecting medical care and public health. In 2005 and 2006, Wailoo served on an IOM Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation, contributing to its final report, Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action. Article by Associate DirectorMia Bay, "In Search of Sally Hemings in the Post-DNA Era" (Reviews in American History 34:4, December 2006), discussed in Inside Higher Ed. The Sunday, February 25, 2007 issue of the Raleigh News and Observer featured an editorial,"The Consequential Case of Jessica Santillan," by Director Keith Wailoo.N.J. Communities Debate the Use of the N-Word, on NPR.
	Emerging Directions in African and African-American Diaspora Conference. For detailed conference information click here. Friday, November 13, 2009.
	CRE Roundtable:Governing Inequality: Race and the Challenge of American Federalism. October 23, 2009
	Silvio Torres-Saillant. "The Transnationational Muse: Geographies of Home and Destination in Contemporary Letters" October 22, 2009
	Michelle Stephens Lecture:"A Creole Complex: The "Color Problem" in Island in the Sun" October 5, 2009
	Ethnicity and the Politics of Language Across the Globe September 15, 2009
	CRE Roundtable: Surveillance & Segregation: The Case of the Roma April 22, 2009
	Nelson Maldonado-Torres Lecture. Language and Eros through Anzaldúa and Fanon Click here for podcast of lecture and brief description. (Note: This is a large file and may take a few minutes to load. iTunes is the most convenient application to play this and can be downloaded for free here.) Monday, April 27, 2009
	Life on the Edge: Immigrants Confront the American Health System. Lecture and Discussion with Alejandro Portes (Princeton). For podcast of lecture, click here. April 14, 2009
	CRE Roundtable: The Difference Difference Makes: Assessing the Value of Diversity April 3, 2009
	CRE Undergraduate Film Screening of Uprooted. April 2, 2009 Led by Fatimah Williams Castro
	3rd Annual Faculty Forum on Race & Ethnicity March 27, 2009 For schedule click here.
	Black Women Academics in the Ivory Tower: Research & Praxis (co-sponsored event) March 5 and 6, 2009
	Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Lincoln, the NAACP and The World They Created (co-sponsored event at Rutgers-Newark) February 21, 2009
	A Screening of Academy Award Winning Film Defending Our Lives (co-sponsored event) February 17, 2009
	New Directions in Caribbean Studies Conference For brief biographies of participants see here. November 28, 2008
	Between Privilege and Poverty: Perspectives on New Jersey Disparities Conference Click here for detailed schedule. October 24, 2008
	Graduate Student Forum on Race and Ethnicity A one-day colloquim highlighting graduate student research on race and ethnicity, for the schedule see here. November 22, 2008
	Research Symposium: "Moving Pictures: The Celluloid Archive, Indigenous Agency, and the Work of Edward S. Curtis" Co-sponsored event November 13, 2008
	"The Hypersexuality of Race" Co-sponsored event, Professor Celeni Parrena Shimizu from UC Santa Barbara presented from her recent book. November 11, 2008
	Faculty Forum on Gender, Race and Ethnicity Global Perspectives October 10, 2008 (held at IRW)
	Running Against Stereotype Race, Gender, Age and Politics, 2008 Friday, October 3, 2008
	Welcome Back Reception New Books and Articles on Race and Ethnicity September 18th, 2008
	DNA, Race, & History An Interdisciplinary Conference April 18th-19th, 2008
	Graduate Forum on Race and Ethnicity Highlighting graduate student research Saturday, March 8, 2008
	Greetings From Asbury Park Film and Discussion with filmmaker Christina Eliopoulos Monday, December 3rd, 2007 @ 5:30 p.m.
	Mississippi Masala [1992] A Film and Discussion with Indrani Chatterjee and Minkah Makalani, History Thursday, November 15, 2007
	Crimnal Differences: Race & Ethnicity in Detention, Juvenile Court, and American Justice Roundtable Discussion Friday, October 26, 2007 @ 12:00 p.m.
	2nd Annual Faculty Forum A One Day Colloquium Friday, October 5, 2007 @ 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
	Hispanic Identities in the New Millennium Roundtable Discussion Friday, September 21, 2007 @ 12:00 p.m.
	Documenting Immigrant Experiences in NJ Communities Roundtable Discussion Friday, April 20, 2007 @ 12:00 p.m.
	Race, Gender, and the (Moral) Health of the Nation Public Lecture by Dr. Keith Wailoo Thursday, April 12 , 2007 @ 4:30 p.m.
	Diaspora and the Difference Race Makes A Black Atlantic Seminar Conference Thursday, February 15 and Friday, February 16, 2007
	White Privilege and Unconscious Bias Roundtable Discussion Tuesday, February 13, 2007 @ 12:00 p.m.
	Teaching Unimaginable Experiences A Facilitated Discussion Wednesday, January 24, 2007 @ 12:00 p.m.
	Crash [2005] Film and Discussion with Ben Sifuentes, American Studies Tuesday, December 12, 2006 @ 7:00 p.m.
	Katrina, New Orleans and the Fate of the Nation Second author meeting Friday, November 10 @ 10:00 & Saturday, November 11, 2006 @ 10:00
	Keynote Lecture--Kwame Anthony Appiah "West of What?" Tuesday, September 26, 2006 @ 4:30 p.m.
	Approaches to Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers A Facilitated Discussion Friday, September 15, 2006 @ noon
	Katrina, New Orleans, Race, and the Fate of the Nation A Forum for Cross Disciplinary Exchange May 12-13, 2006
	Colloquium on Race & Ethnicity A Forum for Informal Interdisciplinary Exchange March 10, 2006