Our creative joy and our intellectual passion is what sustains us in these trying times.
Please join us this Monday, April 27, from 5–7pm in 227 CPEH (Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall) for the Institute for Ethnic Studies Spring Celebration. This gathering affirms the work we do, the communities we serve, and the futures we continue to imagine together.
Over the past year, we have advanced teaching and research on Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Latin American cultures in the U.S. and across the planet. The cultures and knowledges we teach are not "minorities", on the contrary, are the cultures and knowledges of most of the world, of the peoples that have stubbornly survived the end of their worlds and insist on imagining another path forward. We will celebrate these achievements, present our annual awards, and spend time in community with food, drink, conversation, and complicity.
The evening will include a 30-minute conversation in which Dr. Joy Castro will interview Dr. Luis Othoniel Rosa, and Dr. Katie Marya, on their forthcoming novel Animal Spiral (coming out this June in Spanish and English the UK!), an Afro-futurist utopian and experimental work on collective consciousness and post-capitalist futures for our dystopian times.
It has been a difficult year, and yet we gather to honor what we have built and to keep imagining otherwise.
Drinks, food, and good company will be there, and our director, Dr. Laura Muñoz (History and IES) will be our host and moderator throughout the evening.