The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of events for the spring semester, as well as new funding opportunities.
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to announce a new two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Review of applications will begin on March 1.
The new Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS) is launching Spring 2025, and its roster of courses has now been announced. Among these courses are four new courses primarily listed in CDS, as well as a dozen other cross-listed courses.
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism has announced three new working groups.
The exhibit “Revolution in Our Lifetime”: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968–1974, on view at The Peale, has been extended through July 7, 2024.
At the inaugural Chloe Center symposium, Keywords for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism, on May 2, 2024, grant and award winners were announced.
The 300 block of Park Avenue in Downtown Baltimore was at the center of several presentations by undergraduate students on Tuesday, December 6th. This block today is home to several businesses run by Ethiopian merchants, offering hair styling, meals, and other essentials. Yet this block historically has been the locus of the Chinese community in the city of Baltimore, which peaked in the 1960s.
In May 2022, the RIC faculty board voted unanimously to support the proposal for a new undergraduate major, tentatively called Critical Diasporic Studies. On Tuesday, September 13, 2022, RIC hosted a roundtable event titled “A Department of Reparations?” to further echo student demands for new curricular initiatives at JHU. Featuring eminent scholars in the fields of racial and ethnic politics and transnational cultural studies, Dr. Adom Getachew and Dr. Lisa Lowe, the roundtable sketched the contours of what new directions in the study of racism, diaspora, and indigeneity might look like in our present moment.
The Program in East Asian Studies, the Program in Racism, Immigration and Citizenship, and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality mourn the victims of the Atlanta mass shooting, which targeted Asian-run massage parlors and resulted in the deaths of 8 people, 6 of whom are women of Asian descent. With grief and rage, we stand in solidarity with their families, affected communities in Atlanta, and AAPI communities in the U.S. who have been subjected to escalating anti-Asian violence.