Location: Hopkins Bloomberg Center, room 944
555 Penn
Washington, DC

Please join the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship for a panel discussion about the contemporary landscape of diasporic and immigrant-rights organizing at the new Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC. This event is part of a soft launch for a new undergraduate program at Hopkins called Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS), which will enable students to study the solidarities and dissonances between geographical and cultural areas of study such as Asian-American, African diaspora, Indigenous, and Latinx studies. This panel builds on a previous workshop on community-engaged learning, research, and internships held on October 13.

The speakers will be:

• Haddy Gassama
  National Director of Policy and Advocacy, UndocuBlack Network
• Ted Gong
  Executive Director, The 1882 Foundation
• Kham Moua
  National Deputy Director, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
• Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli
  Director for the Andes, Washington Office on Latin America

The CDS major is the result of an undergraduate student movement that began in 2021 and advocated for an activism-oriented academic program that enables students to study the connections, solidarities, and dissonances between geographical and cultural areas of study—from Asian American Studies and the African diaspora to Indigenous and Latinx Studies—that are usually considered separately from one another, but are in fact connected through entangled histories of migration, colonialism, and social movements. The major will include a required community-engaged learning and research that focuses on these entangled histories and contemporary social movements. This panel on Nov. 4 will present some possible opportunities for pursuing community-engaged learning.

This event is open to JHU undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff, as well as members of the public. The panel discussion will be followed by a lunch reception.

Students who are interested in attending should pre-register by e-mailing gcho2 at jhu dot edu. Travel costs and lunch will be provided, along with a Barnes & Noble giftcard.

Funding for this event provided by a JHU Nexus Award and the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship. Co-sponsored by Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV).