This annual conference brings internationally renowned scholars to campus to present their work and engage with faculty, staff, students, alumni and Twin Cities residents. It seeks to highlight the links between scholarship, activism and civic engagement. Each year a different theme is selected based on pertinent issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bao Phi – 50 Years Counter-Commemorating U.S. Wars in Southeast Asia, 1975-2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peace\/Anti-War Countermemory & Ongoing Struggle from Vietnam to Palestine<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shana Redmond – American Studies 20th Anniversary\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>at Macalester College<\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret Randall – precarious futures \/ troubled pasts \/ ethical return<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yuichiro Onishi – “Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor Clayborne Carson, Professor Duchess Harris, Niara Williams, and Carl Eller – Black History Month Panel Discussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor Karin Aguilar-San Juan – Vietnam Anti-War Movement Symposium<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christina Greer – “Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream: A Discussion of Black Ethnics”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laura Kina and Ralina L Joseph – \u201cMixed Race America: Identities and Culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Psyche Williams-Forson – \u201cAlternatives in a Changing Food World.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Julianne Malveaux – \u201cEconomic Justice in the 21st Century.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ruth Wilson Gilmore – \u201cThe World in Crisis: What Is to Be Done?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pedro Noguera – “Challenging Racial Inequality in Our Schools.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cheryl I. Harris and David Roediger – “Whiteness in the Age of Obama.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Harriet A. Washington – “Racism in the Name of Science.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley – “Visualizing Race: Three Episodes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n David Naguib Pellow – “The Movement for Global Environmental Justice and Human Rights.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Joy James – “African Americans and the Prison Industrial Complex”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kathleen Cleaver – “Fifty Years Since Brown V. Board of Education: Where Are We Now?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paul Carter Harrison – “Representing Blackness: From the Black Arts Movement of the Sixties to the Present”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. James S. Jackson – “The Psychology of Being Black in Twenty-First Century America”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Manning Marable and Distinguished Lecturer: Quincy Troupe – “The Politics of Writing Black”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hortense Spillers – Inaugural Lecture<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This annual conference brings internationally renowned scholars to campus to present their work and engage with faculty, staff, students, alumni and Twin Cities residents. It seeks to highlight the links between scholarship, activism and civic engagement. Each year a different theme is selected based on pertinent issues. 2024 Conference Bao Phi – 50 Years Counter-Commemorating […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/723"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2019 Conference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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