Fall 2019 Meeting/Event Schedule

All events this semester were organized by graduate student coordinators Ilya Slavinski, Cassandra Knaff, and Kara Takasaki with faculty advisement from Professors Sharmila Rudrappa, Gloria González-López, and Néstor P. Rodríguez.


TALK: “Caste, Race, and Sociology”

Assistant Professor Diane Coffey (Sociology, UT Austin)

October 31st from 11AM- 12PM in RLP 1.302D 

 

 


WORKSHOP: New Ideas
Friday, November 22nd from 1-2pm in RLP 3.214F. 
We hope that your semester is winding down nicely! Based on your request during our first meeting in September, R&E will host a new ideas workshop over light refreshments.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring, give, and/or receive answers to questions regarding choosing literature, operationalizing, and strengthening or troubleshooting methods and analysis for seminar papers and journal articles. For those who plan on bringing a question, be prepared to provide about 5-minutes’ worth of context and question to then receive about 5-minutes’ worth of feedback.

WORKSHOP: Thinking Race
December 5th from 11:00-12:30 in the Ethnography Lab RLP 3.214F.
We are happy to announce the second annual “Think Race” event. Think Race is a collaborative event for R&E members to present their work and get feedback. Each participant will have five minutes to present on new research ideas or emerging knowledge from a current project. At the end, R&E members will vote to choose one proposal to receive a $150 research award.
Please join us, even if you do not present, to support our participants, hear about their work, and share your feedback. Please let us know by 11/30/19 if would like to present your work.  Intention to participate can be sent by email to Ilya Slavinski, ilya.slavinski@utexas.edu, Kara Takasaki, kara.takasaki@utexas.edu. or Cassie Knaff, cmarieknaff@utexas.edu.

 Thanks to all participants, speakers, and attendees for a wonderful semester.

Spring 2019 Meeting/Event Schedule

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Spring 2019 Meeting/Event Schedule

All events this semester were organized by graduate student coordinators Karen Lee , Ilya Slavinski and Kara Takasaki with faculty advisement from Prof. Gloria González-López .


TALK: “New Combinations of Race and Class in Recent Immigration: Fieldnotes from the U.S. and Central America.”

Professor Néstor P. Rodríguez (Sociology, UT Austin)

March 25 from 3:30-5:00PM in RLP 1.302D


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: ThinkRace Extended Abstract Competition

Due: May 5, 2019 to Michael Schmidt

We write to invite you to submit abstracts to our first ever ThinkRace Extended Abstract Competition where working group members working in the areas of race and ethnicity can submit extended abstracts of a maximum of three pages that outline developing projects or research proposals. Based on a pre-structured rubric and blind review, three abstracts will be chosen to receive an award towards fieldwork or conference presentations.

First place will receive $600, second place $500, and third place $400.

To participate please submit your abstracts by e-mail to Michael Schmidt by 05/08/2019. Your identifying information will then be removed and sent along to the student coordinators. Coordinators will narrow down finalists and send them along to a panel of faculty members who will vote on the winners. Winners will be asked to present their research at the first event of the Fall 2019 semester. Thank you and good luck!


ThinkRace Research Competition Winners

We are excited to announce the winners of the first ThinkRace Research Abstract Competition. Special congratulations to: Faith Deckard First place ($600), Cassandra Knaff Second place ($500), and Shannon Malone Third place ($400). We look forward to hosting the winners in a R&E event this fall where they will showcase their work.
Competition winners were selected through a blind review by a three out-of-department faculty member committee consisting of Dr. Eric Tang, Dr. Simone Browne, and Dr. Marcelo Paixão. Thank you again to everyone who participated in the competition!

 Thanks to all participants, speakers, and attendees for a wonderful semester.

Fall 2018 Meeting/Event Schedule

All events this semester were organized by graduate student coordinators Karen Lee and Katie Rogers with faculty advisement from Prof. Gloria González-López and Prof. Sharmila Rudrappa.

TALK: “Ethnicity and Race in the 2020 Round of Censuses in Latin America: Limits and Potentialities”
Professor Marcelo J. P. Paixão (LLILAS and African and African Diaspora Studies, UT Austin)
October 26 from 2:00-4:00PM in RLP 0.104

TALK: “Racism and Minority Health: A Biosocial Perspective”
Professor Bridget Goosby (Sociology, UT Austin)
November 8 from 1:00-3:00PM in RLP 0.104

WORKSHOP: Thinking Race
November 29 from 1:00-3:00PM in RLP 1.302C
Congratulations to Dominique Scott, winner of R&E’s Thinking Race Award for her presentation “The Tipping Game: Black Food Servers, Performance, and Emotional Labor”!

R&E Thinking Race participants, from left to right: Jamie O’Quinn, Dominique Scott, Shan Siddiqui, and Kathy Hill

Thanks to our graduate student presenters for sharing their research with us:
  • Kathy Hill: “Flexibility or Insecurity: Work and Wellbeing in the Gig Economy”
  • Jamie O’Quinn“Consenting to the Wedding Night: U.S. Child Marriage and Girls’ Agency”
  • Dominique Scott: “The Tipping Game: Black Food Servers, Performance, and Emotional Labor”
  • Shan Siddiqui“The Color of Mistreatment: Discrimination in Health Care and Psychological Distress among Asian Americans”
Thinking Race is a collaborative event for R&E members to present their work and get feedback. Each participant has five minutes to present on new research ideas or emerging knowledge from a current project. R&E members vote to choose one presentation to receive a $150 research award.

Thanks to all participants, speakers, and attendees for a wonderful semester.

Spring 2018 Meeting/Event Schedule

All events this semester were organized by graduate student coordinators Karen Lee, Vrinda Marwah, Beth Prosnitz, and Katie Rogers with faculty advisement from Prof. Gloria González-López and Prof. Sharmila Rudrappa.

CONVERSATION: The Global Rise of Right-Wing Politics: Race in the U.S. and Caste in India
February 23 from 2:30-4:30PM in CLA 3.106

PANEL: Race and Pedagogy
March 22 from 2:30-4:30PM in CLA 3.106
Faculty discussants:
Graduate student moderator:

PANEL: Race and the Academy
April 27 from 9:00-11:00AM in CLA 1.302E
Faculty discussants:
Faculty moderator:


“BROWNBAG” PAPER, PROPOSAL, AND PRESENTATION WORKSHOPS:
  • “Multi-Group Attitudes towards Contemporary Black Political Action: A Reflection of Group Position” by Karen Lee (Sociology, UT Austin)
    February 9 from 2:30-4:30PM in CLA 3.106
  • “Rumors and the Politics of Blame and Responsibility: The Afterlives of Infant Deaths in an Adivasi* Community in South India” by Unnimaya Kurup (Sociology, UT Austin)
    March 9 from 2:30-4:30PM in CLA 3.106
  • “Community Organizations and Schools: Can Community Nonprofits Help Children from Diverse Families Learn on a national Scale?” by Robert Ressler (Sociology, UT Austin)
    March 9 from 2:30-4:30PM in CLA 3.106
  • Disparities in the STEM Field by Kara Takasaki (Sociology, UT Austin) and Prof. Jennifer Glass (Sociology, UT Austin)
    April 13 from 2:30-4:30PM in CLA 3.106

Thanks to all panelists, discussants, speakers, and attendees for a generative and fascinating semester. We greatly appreciate your participation.

Fall 2017 Meeting/Event Schedule

All events this semester were organized by graduate student coordinators Karen Lee, Vrinda Marwah, Beth Prosnitz, and Katie Rogers with faculty advisement from Prof. Sharmila Rudrappa and Prof. Gloria González-López.

PANEL: Race and the Criminal Justice System
October 9 from 1-3PM in CLA 2.606
Faculty discussants:
Graduate student moderator:

PANEL: Race, the State, and State Power
November 6 from 1-3PM in CLA 2.606
Faculty discussants:
Graduate student moderator:

PANEL: Race and Social Science Methods
December 4 from 1-3PM in CLA 2.606 
Faculty discussants:
Graduate student moderator:

INVITED TALKS:

Dr. Robert Reece (Sociology, UT Austin)
October 23 at 1PM in CLA 2.606

“Head Dress: Aligning the Hijab and Turban Under Imperial Visuality”
Dr. Balbir Singh (Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, UT Austin)
October 30 at 1PM in CLA 2.606 

“Can Elites Shape Public Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election”
Dr. René Flores (Sociology, UT Austin)
November 20 at 1PM in CLA 2.606


Thanks to all panelists, discussants, speakers, and attendees for a generative and fascinating semester. We greatly appreciate your participation.

Race, Genetics & Healthcare Invited Speaker Series

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We’re excited to announce that our inaugural invited speaker series in partnership with the Dell Medical School will be starting this March!

Our first speaker, Professor Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania), will be joining us on March 7th, followed by Professor Charmaine Royal (Duke University) in April.

Check out our Events page for details on these talks or reach out to our organizers.

Fall 2016 Meeting Schedule

Welcome back for another school year, R&E-ers!

As you may have noticed over the last few years, we’ve been working around themes to guide our monthly meetings. This academic year, we’re focusing on Race, Health and Healthcare.

Our first fall meeting will be Friday September 9th from 3PM to 5PM, in CLA 2.606 (Normandy Seminar Room). There will be two readings we will discuss to help introduce our subject for the year, so please come prepared to discuss them and share your vision for the rest of the semester.

The readings are the following:

  • Bliss, Catherine. 2012. “Chapter 5: Everyday Race-Positive” in Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Racial Justice. Stanford University Press.

Please mark the following dates for our subsequent fall meetings: October 14th, November 11th, and December 2nd from 3PM to 5PM (all in CLA 2.606). Also, contact Anima Adjepong, Kathy Hill, or Shantel Buggs for a PDF of the Bliss chapter and join our email list here!

A Discussion on Race, Social Movements, and Political “Revolution”

Our next R&E meeting will be Friday 2/19 from 3 to 5pm in CLA 0.120.

We will turn our attentions to political revolution and social movements through a discussion of the Working Families’ Party and Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton’s “gender revolution”, and the Tea Party. Please come having read the articles below and watched the brief video from MSNBC:

Ball, Molly. “The Pugnacious, Relentless Progressive Party That Wants to Remake America” The Atlantic. Jan 7, 2016.

Perry, Melissa Harris. “Should feminism play a role in the 2016 election?” MSNBC, Feb 6, 2016.

Williamson, Vanessa, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin. 2011. “The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism.” Perspectives on Politics, 9(1); p 25-43.

Spring 2016 Meeting Schedule

We hope you’ve all had lovely breaks! Please find below our spring R&E meeting schedule. We have some great events planned and will be continuing our social justice/social movements theme:
January 29th – Talk w/ Christen Smith (CLA 1.302C, 3-5PM)
 
February 19th – Discussion on the Working Families Party, the Tea Party and the State of American Politics (TBD, 3-5PM)
 
March 4th – Author Meets Discussants w/ Simone Browne (CLA 2.606, 3-5PM)
 
April 22nd – Graduate Student Paper Workshop (TBD, 3-5PM)

Student Papers/Presentations Workshop

We will have our final meeting of the fall semester this Friday, December 4th, from 3-5pm in CLA 1.302C. We will be workshopping papers-in-progress from the following graduate students:
Anima Adjepong – “…but to me, to me, all life matters”: Black African immigrants complex responses to Black Lives Matter
Anna Banchik – Photography and the Spectacle of Race: Ebola, Police Brutality and Anti-Blackness
Shantel Buggs – “…I’m not like those kind of Black people”: Exploring the Influence of Social Movements on Mixed-Race Women’s Dating Discourses and Logics

Please email Shantel Buggs for the readings for this meeting.