{"id":5862,"date":"2019-11-13T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:41:02","slug":"apply-to-gpp-591c-lind-initiative-seminar-thinking-while-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-5862","title":{"rendered":"Apply to GPP 591C Lind Initiative Seminar: Thinking While Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

GPP 591C Lind Initiative Seminar: Thinking While Black<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

UBC students are invited to apply to the 3-credit Lind Initiative Seminar on the topic of the 2020 Phil Lind Initiative series,\u00a0Thinking While Black<\/em>, taking place in Term 2 at UBC Vancouver.<\/p>\n

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WHAT<\/strong>:\u00a0A\u00a03 credit course<\/p>\n

WHEN<\/strong>:\u00a0Tuesdays, 3:00 \u2013 5:00 PM, Winter Term 2, January \u2013 April, 2020
\nPlease note<\/em>: One class is scheduled from 3:00 \u2013 5:00 PM on Wednesday, January 15, 2020.<\/p>\n

WHERE<\/strong>:\u00a0Liu Institute for Global Issues \u2013 Boardroom<\/p>\n

WHO CAN APPLY<\/strong>: This is a competitive entry graduate course for UBC students from any faculty. Graduate students and fourth-year undergraduates are encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n

DEADLINE<\/strong>: Applications close November 30, 2019 (11:45 PM).<\/p>\n

APPLY HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Led by\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Phanuel\u00a0Antwi<\/a>,\u00a0Assistant Professor, UBC Department of English Language and Literatures, this seminar series will explore the theme,\u00a0Thinking While Black,\u00a0with visits from\u00a0some of the world\u2019s leading intellectuals on the topic including Claudia Rankine, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, Ibram X. Kendi, and Jesmyn Ward.<\/p>\n

By fundamentally shaping American iconographies, language, media, and cultural productions, blackness, as a form and concept, has given American culture its identity. This series asks how Blackness manifests in often unconnected guises that can be tracked through the event of racial violence, and what can be done about it. In framing Blackness as both a culture and a critical mode of thinking, one that offers possibilities for all of us to rethinking the self, this series will meditate on the structures of race in North America, and will spotlight the seemingly disconnected forms of racial violence that hide in plain sight: the murders of innocent black men by state police and private citizens acting as militia; the disproportional rates of incarceration that Michelle Alexander has named \u201cThe New Jim Crow;\u201d the disproportional rates of sexual assault on black women that manifested in the #MeToo movement (started by Tarana Burke); the disproportional rates of discrimination and violence experienced by black queers and trans people within the queer community; the high rates of addiction, HIV, and diabetes in Black communities; the violence of American militarism through drone warfare and weapons sales across the globe. How, despite shifts in rhetoric and political policy, have so many forms of racial violence persisted? How, we ask, can we rethink ourselves by understanding our relations to blackness?<\/p>\n

Please find the 2020 Phil Lind Initiative series details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lindsay\u00a0Marsh<\/strong>
\nManager, Communications and Program Development
\nSchool of Public Policy and Global Affairs
\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
\n303 – 6476 NW Marine Drive\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver B.C.\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z2 Canada
\nPhone 604 822 1672
\nlindsay.marsh@ubc.ca<\/a>
\n@ubcSPPGA<\/a> | @ubcMPPGA<\/a>
\nsppga.ubc.ca\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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