CRES Event Archive
2024-2025 Events
September 26, 2024
The Sacrifice of Black Cows Book Translation Release
Translated by Paul Silverstein, Reed Anthropology Faculty
March 5, 2025
A Song in Movement Screening and Artist Visit
with Performer/Activist Nobuko Miyamoto, Musician Derek Nakamoto, and filmmaker Quyên Nguyen-Le
March 18, 2025
We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place Book Release
With Author Shani Evans, former Reed Sociology Faculty
April 24, 2025
Senior Thesis Research Showcase
with Seniors from Art History, Anthropology, Creative Writing, Dance, History, Theatre, CRES-Anthropology, CRES-History, and Environmental Studies-History
Spring 2024 Events
April 4, 2024
Beyonce's Cowboy Carter & Black Country Music
Listening and Discussion Session
April 18, 2024
Senior Thesis Research Showcase
with Seniors from Anthropology, Comparative Literature, English, Creative Writing, History, Linguistics, and Sociology
April 24, 2024
Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe
Lecture with Osman Balkan '05
Fall 2023 Events
September 20, 2023
CRES Classics: Toni Morrison's The Origins of Others
November 2, 2023
Hear Our Voices Book Launch
with author/CRES faculty Radhika Natarajan and illustrator Alexander Mostov
November 15, 2023
The Ones Who Did Not Die: Indigenous Killers, Final Girls, and Captivity Narratives
Lecture with Kali Simmons, Assistant Profesor of Indigenous Nations Studies, PSU
2022-2023 Events
April 20, 2023
Senior Thesis Research Showcase
with Seniors from Anthropology, English, Religion, Sociology, CRES-Anthropology
Spring 2022 Events
February 23, 2022
SACRED LAND, SACRED NATION
with Pinky Hota, Smith College Anthropology Department
April 6, 2022
Senior Thesis Research Showcase
with Seniors from Economics, Anthropology, English, Political Science, History, CRES-Sociology
April 26, 2022
Divas, Drag Queens, Aunties, and other Academic Personas
with Kareem Khubchandani, Tufts University Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs
Fall 2021 Events
FACULTY RESEARCH SHOWCASE
with Francisco Beltrán (History),
Victoria Fortuna (Dance),
Kritish Rajbhandari (English),
and Alejandra Roche-Recinos (Anthropology)
CRES X MRC Fall Mixer
Meet faculty, staff, and students involved with CRES and the Multicultural Resource Center, enjoy a mocktail, and hear more about the major and programs.
CRES X MRC Study Break
Take a mindful pause from your Reading Week studies and enjoy tasty treats with CRES and the MRC!
"CRES is pleased to announce CRES Colloquium, a series of discussions of classic works, contemporary events, and student research. All are welcome! The 2020-2021 CRES Colloquium has the theme "Black Studies Beyond Borders." All CRES Colloquium events for the 2020-2021 academic year will take place on Zoom."
A panel with members of CRES & SEEDS
November 16, 2020
Alice Walker's Mestiza
with Dr. Omari Weekes (Assistant professor of English, Willamette University),
February 8, 2021
The Heart of the Race
with Dr. Nicole M. Jackson (Associate professor of History, Bowling Green State University)
March 8 2021
Decolonizing Humor Theory: What We Didn't Know René Ménil Taught Us About Laughter
with Dr. Corine Stofle (Visiting assistant professor of French, 杏吧原创)
April 26, 2021
CRES Senior Thesis Showcase
"CRES Colloquium is a series of discussions of classic works, contemporary events, and student research. All are welcome!"
October 30th, 2019
Sol Plaatje: Land, Legislation, and Literature in Early 20th Century Africa
with Betsey Brada, 杏吧原创 Anthropology Department
December 2nd, 2019
Kashmir: Postcolonial Colonialism?
with Anand Vaidya, 杏吧原创 Anthropology Department
February 12th, 2020
Senior Showcase
with Maya Arigala (Comparative Literature), Alice Chang (Sociology), David Kerry (History), Mayaki Kimba (History), Kwani-Fawn Marcellay (Anthropology), Jules Oh (Music), Janet Sebastian-Coleman (History)
March 4, 2020
Marta Savigliano's Tango and the Political Economy of Passion
with Victoria Fortuna, 杏吧原创 Dance Department
April 6, 2020
Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks
with Kritish Rajbhandari, 杏吧原创 English Department
"A series of trans-disciplinary discussions of landmark CRES creators and works led by Reed and visitng faculty."
October 8th, 2018
Merze Tate, Various Works
with Jonneke Koomen, Willamette University Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics Program and Alex Montgomery, 杏吧原创 Political Science Department & ICPS program
February 11th, 2019
Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez Peña's Couple in a Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians
with Catherine Ming T'ien Duffly and Jaclyn Pryor, 杏吧原创 Theatre Department
February 25th, 2019
Saidiya V. Hartman's Scenes of Subjection
with Anoop Mirpuri, Portland State University English Department, and Radhika Natarajan, 杏吧原创 History Department
March 11th, 2019
Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic
with Mark Burford, 杏吧原创 Music Department
April 1st, 2019
The Combahee River Collective's Black Feminist Statement
with LaShandra Sullivan, 杏吧原创 Anthropology Department
April 22nd, 2019
Alvin Ailey's Revelations
with Minh Tran and Rachel Carrico, 杏吧原创 Dance Department