Calendar of Events
Please view the calendar below for upcoming events.
Learning: A Conversation with Dr. LeConte Dill on The Framily Meeting Podcast Release Date: September 26th
Session Submission Type: Roundtable Abstract On the one hand, we wish to discuss how folks have been personally, professionally, mentally and spiritually unsettled by the presence of colonial curriculum in our respective disciplines. On the other, we seek to theorize unsettling the existing colonial curriculum. Jacqui Alexander’s (2005) assertion that curriculum can serve as a means...
October 18th, 6pm ET: Virtual Book Talk on Dr. Rachel Afi Quinn's book Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo hosted by the University of Houston
Session: CHPPD Poster Session 1Program: Community Health Planning and Policy Development Abstract The current socio-political moment urges us to recognize the imperative of strengthening the capacity of interdisciplinary partnerships to address health crises rooted in racism and discrimination and to foster health equity and justice. We are called to reimagine these collaborative policy and planning spaces as...
Abstract Community-academic partnerships are most effective when resources, expertise, insights, and commitment are shared in mutually beneficial ways. However, there are competing cultures of non-profit organizations and academic institutions, oftentimes with different constituents and different sites of knowledge making. A two-year grant-funded public health project sought to address state-sanctioned violence. While the academic partners were...
Leconte Dill was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, California, the granddaughter of sojourners of the 2nd Wave of the Great Migration. She remains curious about sojourning, migrations, and landing and launching places and spaces. “Le Conte” literally means “The Fairy Tale,” and likewise, LeConté listens to, documents, dreams, and creates stories of...
Remembering bell hooks: A conversation on Black feminism, sociology and beyond Tuesday, December 21 @ 3pm pacific/5pm central/6pm eastern Register: https://bit.ly/3meReiq
Join the MSU Libraries and WKAR on virtual screenings and conversations featuring films focusing on public health, bringing together leading MSU experts and community members to watch and discuss a range of historic and contemporary films. Co-sponsors: Division of Public Health / College of Human Medicine, James Madison College. Department of African American and African...
Join the MSU Libraries and WKAR on virtual screenings and conversations featuring films focusing on public health, bringing together leading MSU experts and community members to watch and discuss a range of historic and contemporary films. Co-sponsors: Division of Public Health / College of Human Medicine, James Madison College. Department of African American and African...
Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in WealthHosted by LeConté Dill, Ph.D., Department of African American and African StudiesRSVP link Join the MSU Libraries and WKAR on virtual screenings and conversations featuring films focusing on public health, bringing together leading MSU experts and community members to watch and discuss a range of historic and contemporary films....
RSVP at: https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/mnyq9 Join the MSU Libraries and WKAR on virtual screenings and conversations featuring films focusing on public health, bringing together leading MSU experts and community members to watch and discuss a range of historic and contemporary films. Check the information below for each of the films and to register. Co-sponsors: Division of Public...