Undergraduate Professional Development
February 25th, 2025 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Come join us, eat pizza, and hear about scholarly opportunities from a Student Delegate and Glasscock Summer Scholar!
- MSC Student Conference on National Affairs
- International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise
- Glasscock Summer Scholars Program
If you require an accomodation under the American Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact Dr. Verity McInnis.
Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico
February 21st, 2025 | 3-5 PM
Featuring: Monica A. Jimenez, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
Jimenez examines how federal policies and jurisprudence that created Puerto Rico exist within a larger pantheon of exclusionary, race-based laws and policies that have carved out "states of exception" for racial undesirables: Native Americans, African Americans, and the inhabitants of the insular territories. Her work brings the histories of these communities together to demonstrate that despite Puerto Rico's unique position as a twenty-first-century colony, its path to that place was not exceptional.
Contact: Dr. Takkara Brunson tbrunson@tamu.edu
Presented by the Caribbean and Atlantic Studies Working Group at the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, and the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute.
The Heartbeat: A Cultural Revival Exhibition
February 1st-28th 2025
Free Admission
Parker Astin 110 N. Bryan Ave., Bryan, TX 77803.
Performances at the Parker Astin in Bryan and the PEAP Building on campus.
Creative Director: Elijah Alhadji Gibson Co-Director: Jessica Ray Herzogenrath Featuring: Urban Souls Dance Company; Social Movement Contemporary Dance Theater and TAMU Dance; Nia’s Daughters Movement Collective; Mezclada Dance Company.
The Indigenous Studies Working Group presents: Conversations at the Intersection of Black and Indigenous Studies.
A half day symposium.
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Join the ISWG on February 18th for an interdisciplinary symposium that brings together scholars and activists working at the intersection of Black and Indigenous politics, history and life. The symposium is foremost an opportunity to have discussions across disciplines and fields that highlights the grassroots activism of Afro-Native peoples and the importance of bridging disciplinary divides between Black and Native Studies.
Co-sponsors: Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, Texas A&M English Department, Texas A&M History Department, Texas A&M Global Languages and Cultures Department, Texas A&M Glasscock Center.
Agenda:
- 11:00am - 12:30pm: “Black Seminole History & Language Revitalization." The first panel, moderated by Mark Mallory, features Windy Goodloe, Corina Harrington, and Gabriel Sanchez of the Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery Association. They will discuss their work with the Black Seminole community as well as their efforts to revitalize Afro-Seminole languages and culture.
- 12:30 - 1:30 - Lunch (provided)
- 1:30 - 3:30 - Conversations at the Intersection of Black and Indigenous Studies.” The second panel features Fay Yarbrough (Rice University, History) Circe Sturm (University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology) Ana Schwartz (English, University of Texas at Austin), and Angela Hudson (Texas A&M, History).
Panelists will discuss the traditional divide between Black and Native studies, and how their respective fields might benefit from a comparative approach to Black and Indigenous history, literature and politics. Angela Hudson will act as a respondent.
Texas A&M History Graduate Student Organization Conference Theme: “Power and Agency”
15th Annual Texas A&M History Conference
