IRAAS Annual Zora Neale Hurston Lecture - 2016
"Arrested Justice: Black Feminist Reflections on Carceral Feminism and Prison Abolition" with Prof. Beth Richie
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 09, 2016; 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Beth Richie
University of Ilinois at Chicago
Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, Criminology, Law and Justice, and Sociology

Beth Richie is engaged in several research projects designed to explore the relationship between violence against women in low-income African American communities and violence. The specific focus of one study is girls who are both violent and perpetrators of violence. Another project is looking at the factors that influence recidivism and re-arrest rates for women and young people being released from a large urban jail. A third project is concerned with the public policy and social factors that lead to the rise in incarceration rates of women and conditions of confinement once they are sentenced. Currently Dr. Richie is leading a multi-million dollar research sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation researching women and youth issues at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. She was the recepient of three major awards: the National Advocacy Award by the Department of Health and Health and Human Serivces, Office of Violence Prevention; the Audre Lorde Legacy Award of the Union Institute stemming from her work with the National Network for Women in Prison; and the Visionary Award Of the Violence Intervention Project.

Co-sponsor: Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexualities at Columbia University


Arrested Justice: Black Feminist Reflections on Carceral Feminism and Prison Abolition"

IRAAS Conversations Lecture -"Cuba & the Haitian Revolution"
Dr. Ada Ferrer, Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at New York University, shares her research which centers on the intellectual, political and social effects of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba and the Atlantic World.

2004 Biography 
Ada Ferrer is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at New York University.  Her research and teaching interests focus on the themes of race and slavery, and nationalism and revolution in the nineteenth-century Caribbean and Atlantic World.  Her first book, Insurgent Cuba:  Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898, earned her the Berkshire Book Prize for the best first publication by a female historian.  Her current research centers on the intellectual, political, and social impact of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1803) in Cuba and the Atlantic World.

"Cuba & the Haitian Revolution" Dr. Ada Ferrer - Spring 2004

IRAAS Conversations Lecture Series - Fall 2005
“Performing Venus: The Historical Legacy of Black Female Commodification.” with speakers Yaba Blay and Kaila A. Story

**Dr. Yaba Blay is a professor, producer, and #ProfessionalBlackGirl. As a researcher and ethnographer, she uses personal and social narratives to disrupt fundamental assumptions about cultures and identities. Dr. Blay received her BA in Psychology (Cum Laude) from Salisbury State University, M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from the University of New Orleans, and M.A. and Ph.D. in African American Studies from Temple University with a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies. She is currently the Dan Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science at North Carolina Central University.


**Dr. Kaila Story is Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, with a joint appointment in the Department of Pan-African Studies. She holds the Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Story and Jaison Gardner also host a weekly radio show of musings on politics, pop culture and black gay life called Strange Fruit. It airs every Saturday night after Tavis Smiley on wfpl (89.3). You can find past episodes here: http://wfpl.org/programs/strange-fruitand here: http://strangefruitpod.org.

Performing Venus: The Historical Legacy of Black Female Commodification.Fall 2005

Dr. Karen Jackson-Weaver shares details of her compelling dissertation titled, Hear My Cry, Hear My Call: Black Women’s Struggle for Leadership During the Civil Rights Movement.  Jackson-Weaver’s dissertation focuses on women’s roles in the civil rights movement and the struggle for black freedom.

Karen Jackson Weaver Lecture

National Poetry Series award winner, Ed Pavlic, presents a complex view of Donny Hathaway through imagined conversations and interviews that convey the voices surrounding Hathaway’s life. Pavlic’s lecture also contains excerpts of his collection of prose poems about Donny Hathaway titled “Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway”.

Conversation Lectures

"Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway”w/Ed Pavlic

Dr. Anne Bailey, Assistant Professor of African History at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Shares exciting details and the inspiration for her book African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame.

Anne Bailey Conversations Lecture

In his lecture titled “Blues for Tomorrow”, critically acclaimed author Stanley Crouch shares entertaining excerpts from his novel Two Heads on a Pillow.

Stanley Crouch Conversations Lecture

Dr. Manning Marable conducts an insightful interview with Peter Goldman, an award winning journalist about the life and death of Malcolm X.

Dr. Manning Marable's Interview with Peter Goldman

Dr. Paulette Young explores the social, cultural and performative processes in which women construct new collective and individual identities in her lecture titled "Cloth as Women's Creative Expression and Visual Voice in Ghana."

Paulette Young Conversations Lecture

Errol Lewis, shares exciting and insightful stories of some of his investigations as a New York City journalist.

Errol Lewis Conversations Lecture

Intellectual activists Julia Sudbury, Angela Davis, Van Jones and Eddie Ellis present their vision of how to dismantle the fundamental source that challenges the existence of democracy and freedom, the prison industrial complex and the processes of mass incarceration at the Final Plenary Session of the Conference Africana Studies Against Criminal Injustice.

PrisonIndustrialComplex MassIncarceration Racialization StructuralRacism Transnational PrisonBoom

Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS)

2003-04-11 ACJP Closing Session

http://www.zaheerali.com/

Named one of Brooklyn Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture" in 2016, Zaheer Ali is the Oral Historian at Brooklyn Historical Society, a nationally recognized urban history center founded in 1863, dedicated to preserving and encouraging the study of the history of Brooklyn, New York. As Brooklyn Historical Society's Oral Historian, he records, collects, archives, and curates the lived histories, testimonies, memoirs, and narrations of Brooklynites from all walks of life. In this capacity, he co-directs Voices of Generations: Investigating Brooklyn's Cultural Identity, a project to digitize, process, catalog, and make accessible online nearly 500 interviews that are part of ten oral history collections; and he directs Voices of Crown Heights, a multi-year oral history project on the history and future of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Additionally, he co-hosts and co-produces Flatbush + Main, Brooklyn Historical Society's monthly podcast dedicated to Brooklyn's multi-layered histories and dynamic present.

Previously, he served under the direction of the late Manning Marable, as project manager and senior researcher of the Malcolm X Project (MXP) at Columbia University--a multi-year research initiative on the life and legacy of Malcolm X. As project manager, he was associate editor of an online annotated multimedia version of The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2004), and later contributed as a lead researcher for Marable's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011). In February 2015, he was a featured narrator in CNN's one-hour documentary, "Witnessed: The Assassination of Malcolm X," and authored the accompanying essay for the documentary's website.

He has taught college-level courses on Islam in Black America, Malcolm X, and African American studies; and he is currently an adjunct lecturer at New York University's School of Professional Studies, where he teaches American history.

He is finishing his doctoral studies in history at Columbia University, where he is focusing his research on twentieth-century African-American history and religion. His dissertation examines the history of the Nation of Islam's Temple/Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, New York, from 1954-1965, during the time of Malcolm X’s ministry.

He is an alumnus of Harvard University, a Mellon Mays scholar, a recipient of Columbia University's Merit Scholars Graduate Fellowship, and a multi-year recipient of the Social Science Research Council's Mellon Mays Pre-Doctoral Research Grant.
Zaheer Ali has given presentations in both academic and non-academic settings, and is available to speak on a broad range of topics, including Islam and Black America, the history of Black nationalism and the Black freedom movement, the life and legacy of Malcolm X, and the importance of historical preservation through oral history and archiving.
http://www.zaheerali.com/

'Islam in Black America"w/ Zaheer Ali - October, 2005

"Moving Forward: A Discussion of the 2016 Election and What’s Next".
A panel discussion on Race and Rights in a Moment of Crisis
Columbia University- Miller Theater

2960 Broadway(116th St.) New York, NY 10027

Ta-Nehisi Coates –Award winning writer, journalist & educator; national correspondent for “The Atlantic”
 
Jelani Cobb – Professor of Journalism – Columbia University; writer, journalist- “The New Yorker”
 
Nikole Hannah Jones- Award winning investigative journalist- “New York Times”
 
Samuel Kelton Roberts – Director of IRAAS; Associate Professor of  History & SocioMedical Sciences-Columbia University; (MODERATOR)
 
Patricia J. Williams- James L. Dohr Professor of Law- Columbia University

RSVP Required through Eventbrite
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Presented in co-sponsorship with
The Office of Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity & Inclusion at Columbia University
 
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Black Alumni Council of Columbia University (BAC)  http://columbiabac.org/
Caribbean Students Association  https://www.facebook.com/CSAatCU/
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"Moving Forward: A Discussion of the 2016 Election and What’s Next".

IRAAS is an intellectual community that bridges scholarship, teaching, and public life.
 
We envision the project of African American Studies as a multi-disciplinary enterprise. Our faculty employ an array of theoretical approaches and methodological strategies to examine historical and contemporary formations in black culture, politics, and society.
 
The Institute has a rich tradition of scholarship which capitalizes upon our unique location in New York City, especially the dynamic community of Harlem. Currently, IRAAS engages in a broad program of research and teaching that attends to the diversity of black experiences in the global diaspora.

The Institute for Research in African-American Studies of Columbia University, founded in July 1993 by Dr. Manning Marable, is an academic resource center. The purposes and activities of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies are grounded within the best scholarship of the black intellectual tradition.

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