Community-Engaged Research in Critical Diaspora Studies

Description

Please join the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship for a panel discussion about the contemporary landscape of diasporic and immigrant-rights organizing. This event is part of a soft launch for a new undergraduate program at Johns 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 Oct. 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 Critical Diaspora Studies 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 will present some possible opportunities for pursuing community-engaged learning.

This event is open to Johns Hopkins undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff as well as members of the public. Travel costs and lunch will be provided, along with a Barnes & Noble gift card.

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