Why Ethnic Studies Matters: Resilience and Intersectional BIPOC Futurisms
Celebrating 30 Years of the Department of Ethnic Studies (DES) at CU Boulder
Funded by the Mellon Foundation聽
April 22, 2024:聽Abrams Lounge (C4C)
聽 9:30am - 10:00am聽 聽 聽 聽 Coffee / Breakfast
10:00am - 10:05am聽 聽 聽 聽 Welcome: Arturo Aldama, DES Chair
10:05am - 11:30am聽 聽 聽 聽 Taking Ethnic Studies Outside of the Ivory Tower & into K-12:聽 Panel w/alums & current BAM students聽
11:30am - 12:15pm聽 聽 聽 聽 Lunch聽
12:15pm - 12:30pm聽 聽 聽 聽 Spoken word: featuring Briannah Hill and Mateo Vela (Ethnic Studies alums)
12:30pm -聽 聽2:00pm聽 聽 聽 聽 Ethnic Studies in Colorado: Panel with undergraduate students from CSU, CU Boulder, CU Denver, and UCCS
聽 2:00pm -聽 聽3:15pm聽 聽 聽 聽 Intersectional Decolonial Visions: Panel with CU Boulder聽Ethnic Studies doctoral students
聽聽3:15pm -聽 聽3:30pm聽 聽 聽 聽 Break
聽 3:30pm -聽 聽4:30pm聽 聽 聽 聽 Processing the Present, Envisioning the Future:聽 roundtable w/current CU Boulder DES faculty聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
聽 4:30pm -聽 聽4:45pm 聽 聽 聽 聽Break
聽 4:45pm -聽 聽6:00pm聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽Honoring our Past: Activist Voices 30 Years after the 1994 Hunger Strike
聽 6:00pm聽-聽 聽7:30pm 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽Reception & Dinner
