2021-2022 WISIR Series:

Contemporary Race & Politics in the United States

The Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race at the University of Washington will be hosting a Webinar Series on Race and Contemporary Issues in the 2021-2022 academic year. These conversations focus on salient racial issues facing the country and will include University of Washington faculty as well as faculty from other institutions to offer reflections and varying perspectives on these important topics.  See below for the full calendar of events.

Join us for one or all lectures in this series. Each panel will be an hour-long, held via Zoom. All events are free and open to the public, but registration is required. 

PREVIOUS EVENTS

Spring 2022

Race & Democracy

This panel will be moderated by Chip Turner, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington. Joining the discussion will be panelists:

  • Cristina Beltrán, Associate Professor, New York University
  • Michael Hanchard, Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  • Deva Woodly, Associate Professor of Politics, The New School

This Webinar was held on April 29th, 11:30-12:30. A recording of this panel can be viewed here.

Winter 2022

Voting Rights Under Attack

This panel was moderated by Jake Grumbach, Professor of Political Science, University of Washington. Joining the discussion were panelists:

  • Charlotte Hill, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
  • Adrienne Jones, Professor of Political Science, Morehouse College
  • Bertrall Ross, Professor of Law, University of Virginia
  • Janelle Wong, Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Maryland

This Webinar was held on January 21st from 10:30 – 11:30. A recording of this panel can be viewed here.

Spring 2021

Teaching the Movement: Reflections on Protests, Abolition, and Radical Scholarship

This panel will be moderated by Megan Ming Francis, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington. Join us for this retrospective, one year after Breonna Taylor’s death, with activists and scholars on where we stand now.

Joining the discussion are panelists:

  • Nikkita Oliver, Community Organizer, Educator, and Attorney
  • Amna Akbar, Associate Professor of Law, the Ohio State University
  • Barbara Ransby, Professor of History Gender and Women’s Studies, and African American Studies, University of Illinois Chicago

This Webinar was held on April 30th at 11:00 a.m. PST.

A recording of this panel can be viewed here.

Winter 2021

COVID-19 & Racial Inequities

This panel was moderated by Jake Grumbach, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Washington. Joining the discussion were panelists:

  • Hedy Lee, Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
  • India Ornelas, Associate Professor of Health Services, University of Washington
  • Jamila Michener, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, Cornell University
  • Gabe Sanchez, Professor of Political Science, Executive Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center, The University of New Mexico.

This Webinar was held on January 22nd at 11:00 a.m. PST.

To view a recording of this panel, follow this link.

Autumn 2020

Race & the 2020 Election

This panel was moderated by Sophia Jordán Wallace, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington. Joining the discussion were panelists:

  • Christopher Sebastian Parker, Professor and Stuart A. Scheingold Professor of Social Justice and Political Science, University of Washington
  • Christina Greer, Associate Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
  • Jane Junn, USC Associates Chair in Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California
  • Bernard Fraga, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University

This Webinar was held on November 6th at 11:00 a.m. PST.

To view a recording of this panel, follow this link.

Social Movements & Racial Justice

This panel was moderated by Christopher Sebastian Parker, Professor and Stuart A. Scheingold Professor of Social Justice and Political Science, University of Washington. Joining the discussion were panelists:

  • Daniel Gillion, Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
  • Juliet Hooker, Professor of Political Science, Brown University
  • Chris Zepeda-Millán, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

This Webinar was held on October 7th at 11:00 a.m. PST.

To view a recording of this panel, follow this link.