<div dir="ltr">Dear Entomology colleagues, <div>Please see the invitation below to attend a round table discussion of interaction and collaboration with the proposed Department of Black Studies. </div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Best Wishes,</div><div dir="ltr">Quinn S. McFrederick</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://melittology.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">McFrederick Lab</a><br><div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.7273px">Associate Professor</span><br></div><div>University of California, Riverside </div><div>Department of Entomology</div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.7273px"><br></span></div>Shipping address: <br>Quinn McFrederick<br>UC Riverside Entomology<br>Entomology 162<br>3401 Watkins Dr.<br>Riverside, CA<br>92521<br>USA<div>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Please join us for a moderated round table discussion and Q&A to explore interactions,synergies, and collaboration between researchers, educators, and students across the Black Study Initiative (and proposed Department of Black Study) andthe College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. The UCR community and many funding agencies are demanding greater attention to diversity and inclusion, not only in the demographics of people across all constituencies on campus, but also in our approaches to academic inquiry and the systems we study. This roundtable is an opportunity for scientists to discuss where we see gaps in scientific inquiry and how we might address these through collaborations with scholars and students in a Department of Black Study at UCR. In particular, we are hoping the CNAS community will ask themselves how they might envision a partnership with Black Study conducive to rigorous and insightful research and education that is attendant to and is in pursuit of an enhanced understanding of the natural, physical, and social world we inhabit. More information about the Proposed Department of Black Study is appended below. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">THIS ROUNDTABLE IS OPEN TO ANYONE ACROSS THE UCR COMMUNITY WHO IS INTERESTED. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><b>We would appreciate it if you would disseminate this invitation widely to your networks at UCR. </b></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">When: Friday May 13th, 3PM – 4PM</div><div dir="ltr">Where: Zoom (link provided when you RSVP)</div><div dir="ltr">RSVP here: <a href="https://bit.ly/3scHt7p" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3scHt7p</a></div><div dir="ltr">(Please note that if you do not see a Zoom link when you register, you will receive one separately before the event.) </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Moderators: </div><div dir="ltr">Janet Franklin, Distinguished Professor, Dept of Botany and Plant Sciences</div><div dir="ltr">Kim Yi Dionne, Associate Professor, Dept of Political Sciences </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Panelists:</div><div dir="ltr">Alejandro Cortez, Academic Coordinator, Dynamic Genome Program</div><div dir="ltr">Claudinéia Costa, Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept of Entomology</div><div dir="ltr">Aral Greene, Graduate Student, Dept of Environmental Sciences</div><div dir="ltr">Flip Tanedo, Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics and Astronomy</div><div dir="ltr">Hollis Woodard, Assistant Professor, Dept of Entomology </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Support:</div><div dir="ltr">Marilyn Grell-Brisk, PhD, Research Associate, Institute for Research on World Systems, UCR</div><div dir="ltr">Helen Regan, Professor, Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We hope to see you on Friday! </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr">Helen Regan</div><div dir="ltr">Marilyn Grell-Brisk </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_l2yyw99l1" alt="CNAS BSI Flyer with QR code for registration-1.jpg" width="349" height="452" style="outline:0px"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">A brief background to the Black Study Initiative and the creation of a Department of Black Study: </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The latest demand for a Department of Black Study at UCRoriginates in the 2020 mass transnational mobilization for Black Lives. It dates back to 1968, when the UCR Black Student Union pleaded the case for a Black Studies department. The institutional absence of such a department has contributed to repeated waves of Black faculty departures for other universities, the alienation of Black students and staff from UCR, and a generalized climate of anti-blackness. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Drawing from Black transformative, queer, trans, and feminist epistemologies, the department will house and nurture rigorous research, pedagogies, curriculum, and artistic practices that are historically-grounded, dialogically engaged in local and global communities, abolitionist, and future oriented. Black Study encompasses the social complexities, interconnections, and discontinuities that mark the African continent and its diasporas in varied times and spaces. Bringing together an adverse group of dynamic scholars and practitioners of Black Study already at UCR, its self-governing structure will emphasize the participation of students, faculty, staff, and Black progressive community members in decision making regarding all department matters, including admissions, hiring, promotion, tenure, and programming. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The UCR difference, signaled by our title Black Study, emphasizes the verb “study” and stresses the engaged and embodied practice of this ever-morphing transformative project. The project name invokes Black Studies, UCR’s short-lived department, but is a departure from it as the singular, Black Study, signifies profound ideological shifts. Black Study is the insurgent practice (that is inevitably a theory) of curriculum, teaching, and research that is simultaneously local, communal, planetary, historical, contemporary, and futurity oriented, straddling various disciplines in the Social Sciences, Humanities, STEM, and the Arts. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Black Study is a transdisciplinary body of knowledge emerging from historical and contemporary African, African American, and diasporic Black experiences. It encompasses but significantly exceeds conventional curricular frameworks of Black Studies, African American Studies, Africana Studies, as well as traditional disciplines in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts. Black Study emphasizes insurgent African and Black diasporic queer, trans, and feminist transdisciplinary approaches to a global framing of Black experiences. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">To succeed, the initiative to create a Department of Black Study will need strong support from a broad coalition of people, communities, and organizations that intersect with but extend beyond the university. The Dept of Black Study proposal can be found here: <a href="https://ucr-senate-public.s3.amazonaws.com/issues/updated-deptblackstudy-full-617b1809c18d7-.pdf" target="_blank">https://ucr-senate-public.s3.amazonaws.com/issues/updated-deptblackstudy-full-617b1809c18d7-.pdf</a></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px">Dr Helen Regan</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px">Professor</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px">Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology Department</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px">University of California</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px">Riverside, CA 92521</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px">USA</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px">email: </span><a href="https://post.ucr.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=xIn4H8m_QrfXvaCKJvfhKfAepNF5_m_lQzLbY2jR2JEQ_GZU0uDTCA..&URL=mailto%3ahelen.regan%40ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(129,78,149);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px" target="_blank">helen.regan@ucr.edu</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">email for phone #<br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px">Web: </span><a href="https://helenmregan.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank">https://helenmregan.wordpress.com</a><br></div></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma">she/her/hers</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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