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