DKP News

TRANSCENDING UNSPEAKABLE VIOLENCE: A TRANSNATIONAL SOUTHASIAN FEMINIST MOVEMENT

A big thank you to Dr. Kavita Panjabi for her lecture on the power of affect in feminist challenges to militarism and violence against women.

Dr. Panjabi is a retired Professor of Comparative Literature and Founder-Coordinator of the Centre for Studies in Latin American Literatures at Jadavpur University (JU), Kolkata.

March 29th 2024 Documentary Film Screening

The Life and Rise of M.I.A/Maya/Mathangi – Tamil Refugee and International Artist.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for a screening and discussion of the 2018 documentary detailing the life of Mathangi Arulpragasam today known as “M.I.A.”

I Feel Like Going to SOLHOT Today: Funk, Loops, and the Outside of Black Girlhood

“I Feel Like Going to SOLHOT Today: Funk, Loops, and the Outside of Black Girlhood” is a public Lecture by Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, Dr. Blair Smith, and Jessica Robinson organized by the Democratizing Knowledge Collective at Syracuse University. This event launched the Just Methods: Reimagining Graduate Education Through Research Collaboratives project supported by the Cuse Grant at Syracuse University.

Paula Johnson Joins A Critical Conversation on Criminal Justice Reform

Three adults sitting as panelists on stage

Kevin Richardson spent more than five years in a juvenile detention facility before he and the rest of the Central Park Five — Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam — were exonerated in 2002 when the real perpetrator admitted to the crime. The Emmy-nominated Netflix miniseries “When They See Us” chronicles the boys’ journey in what Richardson said was an authentic depiction. He called Ava DuVernay “an angel sent from above” for her work as director.

Professor Paula Johnson, a member of the DK Collective, joined Kevin Richardson and Candice Carnage in a panel on justice.

Richardson told Oprah Winfrey in an interview released in June that he’d dreamed of playing the trumpet in SU’s marching band before he and four other boys were wrongfully convicted for the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park. At SU three decades later, he talked about his healing process and discussed justice in the United States. You can see a snipet of his dream being realized here. 

Read more on this panel and Richardson’s story in Daily Orange article here.

School of Education’s Haddix Wins AACTE Outstanding Book Award

Marcelle Haddix
Marcelle Haddix

The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has announced Marcelle Haddix as the recipient of the 2018 AACTE Outstanding Book Award for her book “Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education: Teachers Like Me.” Haddix is Dean’s Associate Professor and chair of the Department of Reading and Language Arts in the School of Education. She will be recognized formally with the award at AACTE’s 70th Annual Meeting next month in Baltimore.  For more detail, please read the entire SU News article.

Hip-Hop Professor, Rapper A.D. Carson to Visit Syracuse Feb. 5 for Black History Month

Rapper A.D. Carson
Rapper A.D. Carson

The University observes Black History Month with a visit by A.D. Carson, a hip-hop scholar who created a popular rap album to defend his Ph.D. dissertation at Clemson University.

Carson, assistant professor of hip-hop and the global South at the University of Virginia (UVA), will discuss “Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolutions” on Monday, Feb. 5, at 5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (114 Bird Library). The event is free and open to the public.  Read the full article in SU News.