Winter-Spring 2021
Last updated May 05, 2021
During the Summer of 2020, the UC Davis community responded to the death of George Floyd, and the unjust killings of too many other Black people in America with a period of acknowledgment, mourning, reflection, and reckoning. We are in the process of moving from isolated allyship to action.
The DEI office embarked upon a journey with the campus to address racism and elevate awareness of racism and bias, those that are explicit and implicit. The curation of the “Resources for Racial Trauma” website was a strong step. All are encouraged to spend time on the site and learn more from the resources that are posted there. In addition to having resources available for individual self-reflection, various departments offered facilitated opportunities for professional development during the summer.
If you have events that we can add, please e-mail Tom O'Donnell with the details.
You can find the Summer-Fall 2020 syllabus at the bottom of this page.
| DATE | TITLE | DESCRIPTION |
| 1/12/21 | UCD School of Law, Lisa Fairfax, Professor, George Washington University Law School, 'Racial reckoning with economic inequities: board diversity as a symptom and partial cure' | In response to the racial reckoning related to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other unarmed Black men and women by police during the summer of 2020, many corporations publicly expressed their commitment not only to grappling with racial inequities in the economic sphere, but also to increasing racial diversity on their boards, with particular emphasis on Black directors. Professor Fairfax argues that while board diversity is responsive to the call for racial equity, we may be unable to heed that call without more extensively addressing the racial bias that pervades existing board recruitment and selection practices. |
| 1/13/21 | UC Davis School of Law, Insurrection and the Rule of Law | Join us as UC Davis Law faculty provide context to the recent unprecedented and troubling events that have challenged the foundation of our democracy. After a mob of trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol last week to prevent the certification of President-elect Biden's election victory, our professors will provide their legal and historical perspectives, offer insights into the implications of this tumultuous election and take your questions. |
| 1/14/21 | ITSP - Cultural Humility and the Interruption of Scripts of Racial Inequality | In this session we will make visible often unspoken social scripts we hole for “The Other” and for ourselves that may impact our encounters and service to others. (If we can see it, we can confront it, interrupt it, and potentially transform it). We will outline key components of Cultural Humility as an approach to interrupt these scripts of inequality. Finally, we will distinguish between Diversity Training, Cultural Competence Education, and Identity Work. |
| 1/15/21 | History Department, Town Hall Meeting on the January 6, 2021 Insurrection | Featuring Gregory Downs (Reconstruction and white supremacy); Katheryn Olmsted (Conspiracy theories); Eric Rauchway (Presidential transitions); David Biale (Weimar analogies); Justin Leroy (Black Lives Matter) |
| 1/18/21 | UC Davis School of Law, MLK day of Service and Celebration | Each year, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., the law school holds an MLK Day of Service and Celebration on the MLK Monday holiday. The Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Law Students Association (LSA), and the MLK Day Working Group made up of students from each class year, come together with members of the administration and faculty to put on this great day-long event. |
| 1/18/21 | City of Davis, Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration | Join in the 27th Annual City of Davis celebration honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This year's program includes highlights of speakers and entertainment from past years and current messages from local youth, as well as an introduction from Mayor Gloria Partida. The program will be available beginning 9:00 a.m. on Monday, January 18 through the end of the month via the City of Davis website. Additionally, it will be shown on DCTV_Channel 15 and broadcast on KDRT 95.7 FM https://davismedia.org/. |
| 1/19/21 | UC Davis HEDI, Growing as a Community: Foundations of Anti-Racism | As our communities grapple with the historic social injustices across our nation, it’s critical to hear from our leaders about the importance of adopting an equity and anti-racism lens to aid in the healing and well-being of our communities. We will discuss the following: Building institutional capacity to address historical and present implications of racism; The impact and continuation of racism in healthcare; Engaging in anti-racism work as a community Featured guests: Kupiri Ackerman-Barger, Phd, RN, CNE, FAAN, Associate Dean for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Director of Faculty Development for Education and Training, Associate Clinical Professor, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing; Jann Murray-Garcia, MD, MPH, Associate Health Sciences Clinical Professor, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, UC Davis Health; Victoria Ngo, Phd, Postdoctoral Scholar, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, UC Davis Health; Mercedes Piedra, MS, Director for Office for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UC Davis Health |
| Jan. 19 | Professor Christopher Bonner - This chapter explores the ways free black northerners used citizenship to protest their disfranchisement. Focusing largely on the struggle for voting rights in New York, I also examine efforts of activists in that state to connect with others across the North who faced similar restrictions. Together, these black Americans argued that their contributions to their communities made them citizens, and that citizenship must entail formal political rights. The chapter explores questions about the construction of citizen status as well as its uncertain relation to other ideals including freedom and equality. | |
| Jan. 20 | UC Davis HEDI, Racial Healing Circle | We are creating a safe space to build a community of belonging for a collective impact on racial justice. Join the UC Davis Health Office for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for our virtual racial healing circle, facilitated by: Mercedes Piedra, MS: Director for UCDH Office for Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion; Rangineh Azimzadeh Tosang, MA, CPF: Founder of Solh Resolutions International |
| Jan. 20 | Book Project: Bias and Racism in Mental Health and Mental Health Treatment | A talk by Hendry Ton, associate vice chancellor, Office of Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UC Davis Health & clinical professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. |
| Jan. 26 | Professor Kate Masur, Northwestern - This chapter explores how and why residents of Massachusetts mobilized to protect the freedom of Black sailors who were imprisoned in southern port cities. Along the way, it examines how antebellum Americans understood citizenship under the Constitution’s privileges and immunities clause (Article IV, section 2). | |
| Jan. 27 | Making the Unconscious Conscious: Understanding and Mitigating Bias |
Participants will be introduced to theory and language in understanding implicit and explicit bias. Using personal reflection, experiential exercises and case studies, participants will gain greater awareness when they engage in bias and gain essential knowledge and skills (tools) in how they recognize and mitigate biases in both personal and professional domains. Faculty and staff are invited to register for this course through Staff Development and Professional Services (SDPS). |
| Feb. 2 | Quarter at Aggie Square Speaker Series, Lisa Ikemoto, "Doctrine at the Gate" | Lisa Ikemoto, Martin Luther King, Jr Professor of Law, UC Davis, will examine the interaction of religious and legal rules that perpetuate health care inequality. |
| Feb. 2 | Implementing the Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Vision |
Every organization is called upon to implement UC Davis' Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Vision. In support of our campus' "To Boldly Go" vision, this session provides an understanding of the goals in the diversity, equity and inclusion strategic vision and the opportunity to explore how organizations may integrate diversity and inclusion as informed by their work. Faculty and staff are invited to register for this course through Staff Development and Professional Services (SDPS). |
| Feb. 2 |
"Mary Chinaman: Trafficking, Runaways, and the Law in the American West" |
Professor Beth Lew-Williams - This work-in-progress considers the experience of female Chinese runaways in the 19th-century U.S. West. By focusing on their fugitive movements—what they wished to escape, how they fled, and where they sought refuge—the chapter examines the multiple and intertwining forces that conditioned Chinese women's lives. This is part of a larger book project on the legal regulation of race and alienage in the American West. While previous scholarship has focused on how federal law “excluded” the Chinese from the nation and erected immigration controls at its borders, this book will ask how local and state law “included” the Chinese within the political economy and forged a racial regime in the interior. |
| Feb. 4 | Is it Bullying? Awareness, Understanding & Strategies |
The objectives of this course are to increase awareness and understanding about bullying and other forms of abrasive behaviors in the workplace, become familiar with the policies and resources related to bullying and other forms of abrasive behavior. Participants will learn skills for responding to abrasive behaviors in the workplace, examine one’s own behavior (self-reflection) that impacts interaction with colleagues and workplace climate, and explore strategies for empowering ourselves and others in cultivating inclusive work environments. Throughout the course, participants will have the opportunity to discuss hypothetical workplace case studies and apply various proactive and response strategies to these cases. Faculty and staff are invited to register for this course through Staff Development and Professional Services (SDPS). |
| Feb. 8 | Graduate Group in Education Speaker Series, Recruitment Practices during COVID-19: Perspectives from Institutional Agents at an Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) |
Marcela Cuellar, School of Education, School Organization and Educational Policy and Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Department of Chicana/o Studies, present preliminary results of their research on the recruitment of Latinx students during the pandemic. |
| Feb. 9 | Quarter at Aggie Square Speaker Series, Nanette Star, "Health Equity in California" | Nanette Star, Health and Equity Program Manager for the California Strategic Growth Council, will discuss issues facing equity in public health. |
| Feb. 9 |
"Becoming Mobile in the Age of Segregation: Public Conveyances and the Fight for Black Citizenship" |
Professor Elizabeth Pryor - In the United States, in the early 19th century, Black abolitionists and elite free people of color took advantage of the newly emerging technologies of travel--stagecoaches, steamships, railroads-- to expand their social, economic and activist networks. Calling themselves "colored travelers," they (like all Americans) believed that full access to public conveyances was a fundamental right to which they were entitled as U.S. citizens. Nevertheless, they confronted white supremacist ideologies that prevented them from access, and in turn, Black activists established the cars, compartments and cabins of public vehicles as the frontlines for the battle over equal rights. |
| Feb. 10 | UC Davis Library, Renate Chancellor, "Libraries, Leadership and Social Justice: Lessons from E.J. Josey" | Librarian, educator and activist E.J. Josey stands out within the broader social and political landscape of civil rights for his courage and leadership in desegregating the library profession. As president of the American Library Association (ALA) from 1984 to 1985, he successfully drafted a resolution preventing state library associations from discriminating against librarians of color — an act considered by many to have desegregated the ALA. During this online talk, Dr. Renate Chancellor, author of E. J. Josey: Transformational Leader of the Modern Library Profession (2020), will seek to answer the following questions: How did Josey transform the modern profession? What lessons can we take from his leadership and apply today? |
| Feb. 10 | UC Davis Humanities Institute, Julie Sze Book Chat, Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger |
This new acclaimed book examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to activism in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. It is an essential primer on environmental justice, packed with cautiously hopeful stories for the future. The UC Davis Humanities lnstitute's Book Chat series celebrates the artistic and intellectual ventures of our faculty and allows them to share their new publications, performances, or recordings with the Davis community. Please join us for a dialogue with the author, moderated by Humanities Institute Director and Professor Jaimey Fisher. |
| Feb. 10 | UC Davis School of Law, Tribal Justice Seminar Series, Christopher Chaney, DOJ Office of Tribal Justice, “Tribal Access to FBI Databases: Protecting Vulnerable Persons in Indian Country” |
The Tribal Justice Seminar Series strives to unite law students, graduate students, faculty, and practitioners with leaders and scholars who specialize in the area of tribal courts. Over the course of the Spring 2021 semester, the series will explore some of the current challenges facing tribal courts and the creative, groundbreaking ways that thought leaders and practitioners are addressing them. For more information, contact tribaljusticeseminar@law.ucdavis.edu or (530) 400-2754 |
| Feb. 12 | Center for Educational Effectiveness, "Foundations of an Anti-racist Pedagogy" | Racial inequities persist on campuses, in curricula, and in classrooms. In this faculty workshop, participants will explore how to take action towards building an anti-racist curriculum with anti-racist pedagogical and assessment practices -- proactively and responsively. We will also discuss actionable steps towards building an anti-racist presence, along cognitive, social, and teaching dimensions. Session facilitators: Kem Saichaie, PhD., Associate Director - Center for Educational Effectiveness; Cecilia Gomez, PhD., Education Specialist - Center for Educational Effectiveness. |
| Feb. 16 | Quarter at Aggie Square Speaker Series, Camisha Russell, "What Makes an Anti-Racist Feminist Bioethics?" | Camisha Russell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, considers the role of the race idea in practices surrounding assisted reproductive technologies and argues for the benefits of thinking of race itself as a technology. |
| Feb. 16 | UCPromISE, “Advancing Equity for Undocumented Students and Students from Mixed-Status Families at the University of California” | A panel discussion of new report. Authors will be in conversation with UC undocumented service providers to discuss key findings and practices to advance equity for all students affected by unjust immigration policies.
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| Feb. 16 | Book Project: Mental Health & Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice | "Mental Health: Reimaging and Reinventing Our Community Response," a forum on mental health & law enforcement and criminal justice featuring the UC Davis Police Department, Yolo County District Attorney’s Office & UC Davis Police Accountability Board. |
| Feb. 16 |
"On the Antebellum Fringe: Lumbee Indians, Slavery, and Removal" |
Professor Malinda Maynor Lowery - This essay illuminates how the Lumbee challenge the dominant narrative of antebellum southern history. It reminds readers that Natives did not simply depart the region in 1838, and that removal entailed metaphorical destruction as much as forced migration. It also shows how one Native community struggled to work through the South’s stilted racial binary and continue to shape regional culture. In addition, it demonstrates how the Lumbee survived the tumultuous changes by maintaining flexible ties to family, religion, and place. They persisted in an increasingly hostile environment by adapting some aspects of white culture, including apprenticeship and marriage, and by building literacy and practicing Christianity. Those Lumbee who participated in black market activities continued to maintain close ties to kin who endeavored to meet social challenges through legal channels. Their efforts provided a sense of social unity that defined their sense of belonging and drew boundaries around their community. |
| Feb. 17 | Plant Sciences Seminar, Mallika Nocco, "Informing Irrigation and Encouraging Inclusion with Plants" | Mallika A. Nocco, Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist in Soil-Plant-Water Relations, will be presenting her work along with colleagues on an article about inclusive mentorship during the pandemic, based on her recently-published article. |
| Feb. 17 | UC Davis School of Law, Tribal Justice Seminar Series, Joel West Williams, Attorney, Native American Rights Fund, “Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Federal Court Review of Tribal Court Decisions” |
The Tribal Justice Seminar Series strives to unite law students, graduate students, faculty, and practitioners with leaders and scholars who specialize in the area of tribal courts. Over the course of the Spring 2021 semester, the series will explore some of the current challenges facing tribal courts and the creative, groundbreaking ways that thought leaders and practitioners are addressing them. For more information, contact tribaljusticeseminar@law.ucdavis.edu or (530) 400-2754 |
| Feb. 17 | Police Accountability Board Public Meeting | Due to the current measures being taken in response to COVID-19, the Police Accountability Board's Public meeting will be held online via Zoom with board representatives in attendance. |
| Feb. 18 | Chancellor’s Colloquium: María Teresa Kumar | Alumna María Teresa Kumar, founding president and CEO of Voto Latino, which has registered more than a million voters since 2012, and who is an Emmy-nominated MSNBC contributor, is the next guest in the Chancellor’s Colloquium Distinguished Speaker Series. Founded in 2004, Voto Latino is a nonprofit political organization that seeks to “educate and empower a new generation of Latinx voters.” It has registered more than a million new voters since 2012, including 601,000 in the most recent election cycle, and encouraged nearly 4 million people who were unlikely to vote to get out to the polls. |
| Feb. 19 | Manetti Shrem, Race, Museums, Art History: Templeton Colloquium in Art History |
Can the museum be a space of anti-racism, and can the discipline of art history help to achieve that? The 2021 Templeton Colloquium focuses on these questions to better understand the relationship between the display of art and racial privilege. Speakers will include Professor Bridget Cooks of UC Irvine, author of Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (2011), and Dr. Susan Mullin Vogel, a curator, filmmaker and expert on African art whose most recent book is El Anatsui: Art and Life (2020). Following their brief presentations there will be a conversation moderated by Michael Yonan, professor of art history and Alan Templeton Endowed Chair in European Art, 1600–1830. |
| Feb. 20 | Mondavi Center HomeStage presents: Heartbeat Opera, Breathing Free | Breathing Free builds on Heartbeat Opera’s 2018 collaboration with 100 incarcerated singers in six prison choirs, part of a contemporary Fidelio told through the lens of Black Lives Matter. Now, in the turbulent wake of George Floyd’s murder and in the grip of a pandemic which is ravaging our prison population, Heartbeat curates a song cycle brought to life by three singers, three dancers, eight instrumentalists and the use of vivid music videos, mingling excerpts from Beethoven’s Fidelio with songs by Black composers and lyricists, which together manifest a dream of justice and equity. |
| Feb. 21 | UC Davis HEDI, Addressing Privilege and Anti-Blackness in Academic Medicine | Addressing Privilege and Anti-Blackness in Academic Medicine invites participants to consider how racial inequities persists in the health care research system. This interactive session will explore ways that UC Davis Health can be a part of the solution. Participants will bring their expertise and experiences so that we can identify sites for personal and collective action. Topics covered include: Legacies of exclusion within academic medicine; Mistrust of academic medicine by Black communities and communities of color; Needed changes in clinical work, research systems, mentoring/teaching practices, and administrative structures; Barriers preventing the advancement of medical researchers dedicated to racial equity; This conversation will augment efforts toward self-education and create community in efforts to redress the legacies of white supremacy in academic medicine. |
| Feb. 23 | Quarter at Aggie Square Speaker Series, Rebecca Kluchin, "Reproductive Injustices: Forced Cesarean Sections in 1980s America" | Rebecca Kluchin, Professor of History, CSU-Sacramento is author of Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980. |
| Feb. 23 | Professor Dylan Penningroth - This article seeks to revise the history of civil rights by closely examining one strand of black people’s long engagement with legal rules, legal ideas, and legal institutions: the private law of religion. After the Civil War, millions of African Americans began to exercise civil rights of property, standing, and contract, a set of rights whose significance scholars of the black freedom struggle have downplayed or dismissed. By the Jim Crow era, African Americans were putting the paradigmatic civil rights of the nineteenth century to everyday use. But the question of whether they had civil rights in church—rights that a court could protect—highlighted a longstanding tension between two influential nineteenth-century theories of rights. While common-law rights belonged to both men and women, privileges within religious associations depended on one’s status. This concentrated authority at the top, especially in men, raising questions about the rights of churchmembers, who were mostly women. The “deference doctrine” did not stop black people from going to court. But during the early 1900s, as some black churches amassed huge memberships and property, and as black denominations became national corporations, legal doctrines developed in the mid-1800s—developed in part from black church cases—enabled black male leaders to amass extraordinary authority. | |
| Feb. 23 | Breathing Free: Anti-Racism and Activism in the Arts, Panel discussion with Heartbeat Opera and Black Artists Fund | Black Artists Fund & Heartbeat Opera present in association with the Mondavi Center BREATHING FREE Anti-Racism and Activism in the Arts - a live panel discussion. Join arts leaders and activists from Heartbeat Opera and the Sacramento community in a free panel discussion about how our arts community can join the fight for racial justice. Panelists: Tre Borden, Moderator Ras Dia, Creative Producer of Breathing Free Ethan Heard, Director of Breathing Free and Co-Artistic Director of Heartbeat Opera Faith McKinnie, Founder of Black Artists Fund Darren Isom, Board Member of Mondavi Center Akilah Cadet, CEO, Change Cadet Jessa Ciel, Visual Artist and Filmmaker Heartbeat Opera’s visual album, Breathing Free, is available to stream on demand starting Saturday, February 20 at 7:30pm PST through February 27. Tickets are $5 with discount code “HEARTBEAT” at the following link: http://bit.ly/MC-HO |
| Feb. 24 | UC Davis School of Law, Tribal Justice Seminar Series, Sally Willett, Social Security Administration Judge (retired), Polly VanSecurity Benthusen, Social Manager Administration District (retired), “Social Security Programs Available to Tribal Communities” |
The Tribal Justice Seminar Series strives to unite law students, graduate students, faculty, and practitioners with leaders and scholars who specialize in the area of tribal courts. Over the course of the Spring 2021 semester, the series will explore some of the current challenges facing tribal courts and the creative, groundbreaking ways that thought leaders and practitioners are addressing them. For more information, contact tribaljusticeseminar@law.ucdavis.edu or (530) 400-2754 |
| Feb. 25 | Racial Justice Speaker Series: Tracie Olson, Yolo County Public Defender | Tracie Olson, Yolo County Public Defender - More information to follow. |
| Feb. 25 | Never Surrender: The Fight for Environmental Justice in Bayview Hunters Point | This documentary film by Dr. M. Reza Shirazi is the result of more than two years of research and fieldwork in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco. It narrates the community fight for environmental justice, and documents the conflict between people and government over the safety of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund Site. Decades of remediation work at Hunters Point Shipyard, a former military base contaminated during the Second World War and beyond, were reported to be fraudulent and data were falsified. This turned the biggest re-development project in San Francisco into one of the worst toxic and radioactive scandals in US history. |
| Mar. 2 | Quarter at Aggie Square Speaker Series, Nathan Fairman, "Triage Decisions" | Inequities in healthcare delivery mean that many people who most need health care have limited or no access to it. Race, socioeconomic and employment status, mental health issues, gender and sexual orientation can all impact patients’ access and experiences. Join us for a speaker series that will examine medical, legal, sociocultural and historical perspectives on this critical topic. Hosted by Professors Emily Merchant, Meaghan O’Keefe and Lindsay Poirier as a part of their Quarter at Aggie Square curriculum, speakers will include faculty from UC Davis School of Medicine and Law, and other institutions and organizations. |
| Mar. 2 | Professor Jane Hong - This book chapter examines the Philippine Commonwealth Government’s role in the success of the 1946 Luce-Celler Act’s provisions making Filipina/os eligible for U.S. citizenship. Drawing from U.S. and Philippine archives, it charts how Philippine officials adopted the legislative cause as part of their broader preparations for Philippine independence. They anticipated that Filipina/o communities in the United States would be vital to Philippine state-building projects after independence and sought to inculcate in Filipina/o Americans a sense of responsibility to the islands that transcended formal citizenship. A centering of Manila’s role in the Washington-based naturalization campaign reveals Philippine officials’ instrumental understanding of the U.S. citizenship bill as a means to achieve their own national goals. More broadly, it foregrounds decolonization and anticolonial movements in Asia as important levers driving the dismantling of race-based exclusion laws targeting Asian peoples. | |
| Mar. 3 | UC Davis School of Law, Tribal Justice Seminar Series, Robert D. Gifford, Tribal Judge and Attorney |
The Tribal Justice Seminar Series strives to unite law students, graduate students, faculty, and practitioners with leaders and scholars who specialize in the area of tribal courts. Over the course of the Spring 2021 semester, the series will explore some of the current challenges facing tribal courts and the creative, groundbreaking ways that thought leaders and practitioners are addressing them. For more information, contact tribaljusticeseminar@law.ucdavis.edu or (530) 400-2754 |
| Mar. 3 | Racial Justice Speaker Series: Paul Butler, Professor, Georgetown Law | More information to follow. |
| Mar. 5 | Center for Educational Effectiveness, "Anti-Racism: Applications to Higher Ed Pedagogy" | Graduate Student Workshop. Just as racial inequities and disparities permeate society, these inequities also appear on campuses, in curricula, and in classrooms. By infusing our professional practice with actions in support of anti-racist ideals, we can, as educators, contribute to this race and equity work. In this workshop for graduate students, participants will explore how we might take anti-racist actions -- preventatively and responsively -- in the context of our classrooms. We will also discuss actionable steps towards building an anti-racist teaching presence, cognitive presence, and social presence. Facilitators: Michelle Rossi MA., MEd., Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology; Julia Houk, Ph.D. Student, School of Education; Peter Joseph Torres MA., Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Linguistics; All Three facilitators are Teaching Assistant Consultant Fellows in Center for Educational Effectiveness. |
| Mar. 9 | Law School - AOKI Center/History Department colloquium on Free People of Color: Race, Law and Freedom in the 19th and 20th Century U.S., Alaina Roberts, "A Different Forty Acres: Land, Kin, and Migration in the Black and Native West" |
Alaina E. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the intersection of African American and Native American history from the nineteenth century to the modern day with particular attention to identity, settler colonialism, and anti-Blackness. This essay utilizes Dawes Roll testimonies to argue that by using land and migration as categories of analyses, we see how some Black and mixed-race Chickasaw freedpeople (women and men formerly enslaved by Chickasaw Indians) exercised their freedom after the Civil War not by leaving their former spaces of enslavement, but by choosing to remain in these locations. In laying claim to the land of the Five Tribes in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), people of African descent documented the ways they had come to identify with land and space through shared hardships and Black and Black Indian kinship connections. Thus, for these people, Reconstruction in the West centered more on the attainment of land and belonging than on the realization of formal citizenship rights. |
| Mar. 9 | Racial Justice Speaker Series: Song Richardson, Dean, UC Irvine Law | More information to follow. |
| Mar. 10 | UC Davis School of Law, Tribal Justice Seminar Series, Tahlina Nofire Blakestad, Tribal Attorney, “Representing Tribal Councils”
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The Tribal Justice Seminar Series strives to unite law students, graduate students, faculty, and practitioners with leaders and scholars who specialize in the area of tribal courts. Over the course of the Spring 2021 semester, the series will explore some of the current challenges facing tribal courts and the creative, groundbreaking ways that thought leaders and practitioners are addressing them. For more information, contact tribaljusticeseminar@law.ucdavis.edu or (530) 400-2754 |
| Mar. 11 | Is it Bullying? Awareness, Understanding & Strategies | The objectives of this course are to increase awareness and understanding about bullying and other forms of abrasive behaviors in the workplace, become familiar with the policies and resources related to bullying and other forms of abrasive behavior. Participants will learn skills for responding to abrasive behaviors in the workplace, examine one’s own behavior (self-reflection) that impacts interaction with colleagues and workplace climate, and explore strategies for empowering ourselves and others in cultivating inclusive work environments. Throughout the course, participants will have the opportunity to discuss hypothetical workplace case studies and apply various proactive and response strategies to these cases. |
| Mar. 12 | Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA), "Addressing Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19" |
Join APAMSA for a student-led presentation and panel discussion on Addressing Anti-Asian Racism During COVID-19. Panelists include: Dr. Hendry Ton, Associate Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Health Equity, and Inclusion, UC Davis Health; Dr. Brent Luu, Assistant Clinical Professor, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis; Alice Kim-Wilson - 4th Year Medical Student, UC Davis School of Medicine; Kimberly Ngo - 4th Year Medical Student, UC Davis School of Medicine. |
| Mar. 16 | Joshua L Reid (registered member of the Snohomish Indian Nation) is an associate professor of American Indian Studies and the John Calhoun Smith Memorial Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington where he also directs the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest. He is author of The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (Yale, 2015), for which he has received numerous awards. Reid researches and teaches about histories of American Indians and Indigenous peoples, the North American West, the environment, and Pacific Worlds. | |
| Mar. 17 | UC Davis School of Law, Tribal Justice Seminar Series, Angel Smith, Tribal Attorney, “The Life of the Indian Child Welfare Act: Understanding ICWA from the Indian Child Perspective” |
The Tribal Justice Seminar Series strives to unite law students, graduate students, faculty, and practitioners with leaders and scholars who specialize in the area of tribal courts. Over the course of the Spring 2021 semester, the series will explore some of the current challenges facing tribal courts and the creative, groundbreaking ways that thought leaders and practitioners are addressing them. For more information, contact tribaljusticeseminar@law.ucdavis.edu or (530) 400-2754 |
| Mar. 24 | UC Davis School of Law, Tribal Justice Seminar Series, Lawrence King, Chief Judge, Morongo Band of Mission Indians, “Tribal Court as Means to Healing Families” |
The Tribal Justice Seminar Series strives to unite law students, graduate students, faculty, and practitioners with leaders and scholars who specialize in the area of tribal courts. Over the course of the Spring 2021 semester, the series will explore some of the current challenges facing tribal courts and the creative, groundbreaking ways that thought leaders and practitioners are addressing them. For more information, contact tribaljusticeseminar@law.ucdavis.edu or (530) 400-2754 |
| Mar. 30 |
"Race, Economic Discrimination, and the Politics Homeownership Expansion" |
Professor Chloe Thurston - A marker of social and economic inclusion, Americans have long been encouraged to view homeownership as “privately owned and privately earned,” neglecting the substantial role of federal policy interventions that have enabled citizens to obtain mortgages on affordable terms. This talk, based on a recently published book, examines how civil rights advocates came to recognize and then contest the role of the state in constraining Black Americans’ freedom to fully participate in the housing market on equal terms as white Americans during two periods: first, in the aftermath of the creation of the Federal Housing Administration, and second, in the 1960s as the push for inclusion into homeownership traveled down the income scale. By making legible the role of the government (rather than an unencumbered free market) in shaping the contours of the housing market, civil rights actors challenged the economic and political basis of their constituents’ exclusion. |
| Mar. 31 | Racial Justice Speaker Series: Jack Chin, Professor, UC Davis School of Law | More information to follow. |
| Apr. 6 |
"Reconstruction and the Long History of Equal Access to Court Testimony" |
Professor Pippa Holloway - The standard narrative of the equalization of court testimony as being accomplished through the Civil Rights Act of 1866 overlooks a longer, more complicated story. African Americans found ways around barriers to testimony against whites in certain instances during the slave era. White southerners – including prosecutors, crime victims, and judges – supported African American testimony in some cases when it was needed for the conviction of particularly dangerous white criminal offenders. Restrictions on testimony pitted legislatures against courts, and courts sometimes resisted restrictions on evidence when these restrictions did not serve the ends of justice. |
| Apr. 7 | Racial Justice Speaker Series: Raquel Aldana, Professor, UC Davis School of Law | Raquel Aldana - The enforcement of borders has always been punitive and racialized. Yet, immigration law’s exceptionalism and bounded notions of social membership has left the other – the “alien” – largely unprotected from the shackles of borders. This presentation will argue why any racial justice project must embrace the dismantling of citizenism -- a view in which “ U.S. citizenship” is foundational to the distribution of rights – as central to the transformation of the United States into a more just nation. |
| Apr. 9 | Hate and Healing: A Conversation on Anti-Asian Violence and Anti-Racist Coalition Building |
Join the UC Davis Department of Asian American Studies for a discussion on the recent ongoing attacks on the API community. Hear advocacy leaders relate their experiences and perspectives. Facilitated by Professor Ga Young Chung, UC Davis Asian American Studies Panelists include: James Burch, Policy Director for the Anti-Police Terror Project; Professor Milmon Harrison, UC Davis African and African American Studies; Anne Ishii, Executive Director of Asian Arts Initiative; Professor Rana Jaleel, UC Davis Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Megan Sapigao, Coordinator of Sacramento Asian Pacific Islander Regional Network; Jennifer Ngyuen Bernal, Undergraduate at UC Davis |
| Apr. 13 | Law School - AOKI Center/History Department colloquium on Free People of Color: Race, Law and Freedom in the 19th and 20th Century U.S., Paul Finkelman, Ph.D, President of Gratz College | Paul Finkelman received his B.A. in American Studies from Syracuse University in 1971 and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 1976. He was later a Fellow in Law and Humanities at Harvard Law School. He has held a number of endowed chairs as a tenured professor or as a visitor, including the Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Saskatchewan, the John Hope Franklin Chair in American Legal History at Duke Law School, and the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor at Albany Law School. In 2017 he held the Fulbright Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of Ottawa School of Law, in Ottawa, Canada and was also the John E. Murray Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is the author of more than 200 scholarly articles and the author or editor of more than fifty books. His most recent book, Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court, was published by Harvard University Press in 2018. |
| Apr. 16 | UC Davis Center for Poverty & Inequality Research, Steven Roberts, Psychology, Stanford University, "Racism: A Developmental Story" | Racism – often conceptualized as disliking or mistreating others because of their race – is a system of advantage based on race. In this talk, I will share my personal and professional experiences within this system, and highlight how the two have developed hand in hand. Specifically, I will address racism in our categories, churches, relationships, and science. In doing so, I will aim to make three broader points. First, racism shapes our lives in ways that are often unappreciated and unrecognized. Second, racism shapes our lives from childhood well into adulthood and beyond. Third, our own experiences with racism (and race) inform who and what we study. I will conclude, as a human and as a psychologist, with recommendations for an anti-racist future. |
| Apr. 20 | Law School - AOKI Center/History Department colloquium on Free People of Color: Race, Law and Freedom in the 19th and 20th Century U.S., Professor Julian Lim, Arizona State University | Julian Lim is an associate professor of History at Arizona State University. She holds a bachelor's degree in literature and a law degree from UC Berkeley, and received her doctorate in history from Cornell University. Trained in history and law, she focuses on immigration, borders, and race, and has taught in both history department and law school settings. Lim's award-winning first book, Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), examines the history of diverse immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and the development of immigration policy and law on both sides of the border. |
| Apr. 21 | UC Davis School of Law, Marjorie Florestal, "The Healing Potential of Stories to Combat Racial Trauma" | Over the last several weeks there have been countless acts of violence towards Black people and other people of color in this country. To help alleviate some of the trauma/stress caused by these occurrences Professor Marjorie Florestal will be presenting on the healing potential of stories to combat racial trauma. Professor Florestal teaches negotiations, contracts and international trade law part-time at UC Davis School of Law Her scholarly interests include psychology and law. |
| Apr. 22 | Manetti Shrem, Art Studio Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Arnold Joseph Kemp in Conversation with Sampada Aranke |
The materials employed in Arnold J. Kemp’s interdisciplinary practice absorb or reflect light while mirroring likeness, becoming haunted and ghostly metaphors for absented and obfuscated black bodies. Kemp will give a poetry reading, then discuss the relationship between language and the aesthetics presented in his paintings, photographs and sculpture with Manetti Shrem Museum scholar- in-residence Sampada Aranke. Kemp’s exhibition Arnold Joseph Kemp: I would survive. I could survive. I should survive, curated by Arnanke, is on view through April 25, 2021. |
| Apr. 27 | Law School - AOKI Center/History Department colloquium on Free People of Color: Race, Law and Freedom in the 19th and 20th Century U.S., Gabriel "Jack" Chin, Edward L. Barrett Jr. Chair of Law, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, and Director of Clinical Legal Education |
Gabriel "Jack" Chin is a teacher and scholar of Immigration Law, Criminal Procedure, and Race and Law. His scholarship has appeared in the Penn, UCLA, Cornell, and Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties law reviews and the Yale, Duke and Georgetown law journals among others. The U.S. Supreme Court cited his work on collateral consequences of criminal conviction in Chaidez v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 1103, 1109 (2013), in which the Court called his Cornell Law Review article “the principal scholarly article on the subject” and in Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473 (2010), which agreed with his contention that the Sixth Amendment required defense counsel to advise clients about potential deportation consequences of guilty pleas. Justice Sotomayor cited his Penn Law Review article in her dissent in Utah v. Strieff, 136 S. Ct. 2056, 2070 (2016). |
| Apr. 27 | UC Davis AASFA, Center for African Diaspora and Student Housing and Dining Services Presents: The Derek Chauvin Trial Processing Space |
The Derek Chauvin Case has been a very stressful experience for us as we have waited with bated breath for the verdict in this monumental trial. Please join us to discuss the trial, the judgment, what it means to you, and the current social climate. |
| May 4 | Aoki Center and UC Davis History Dept. Free People of Color Seminar Series: Dr. Yatta Kiazolu |
"Civil Rights, Internationalism, and African American Women's Fight for Full Citizenship, 1960" By 1960, African decolonization on the world stage presented greater opportunity to actualize new political terrain in the interest of people of African descent. African American leaders made connections between the struggles for desegregation at home and decolonization abroad. Committed to this cause, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) under the tenure of then-president Dorothy Height, emphasized travel to Africa for both its leaders and members, many of whom were traveling for the first time. This included Height’s tour of five West African countries, along with Jeanne Noble and Dorothy Ferebee’s participation in the inaugural Conference of Women of Africa and African Descent held in Accra, Ghana in July of 1960. Through solidarity with African women nationalists preparing for new roles in emerging societies, this research demonstrates how their on-the-ground interactions helped Council women advance their case for Black women’s inclusion in public life at home, and more broadly, for full citizenship. These experiences offer an entry point into Black women’s global struggle for self-emancipation in the age of decolonization, civil, and human rights. |
| May 5 | Town Hall Looking at Anti-Asian American Violence |
“Our goal with the event is to increase discourse on the long history of violence and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in America, all while relating it to the tragedies occurring today.” Five of the presenters are UC Davis faculty and the sixth is an alumna on the faculty of Claremont Graduate University:
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