Friday, December 18, 2015
CCS invites you to submit articles for the annual Reflections magazine.
The theme of this year’s magazine is race and conflict. CCS seeks to discuss race as more than color, but rather as the power, privilege, identities, and discrimination tied to shades of color and the role that this plays in conflicts around the world. In recognizing that the resolution of race-based conflicts requires a long-term strategic approach, we seek to understand the potential that we have in transforming race conflicts to better relationships and communications between human beings, improve equality and provide for social justice in every society.
Under this broader theme, the magazine will include the following sections:
Opinion
People
Art (poems and other artwork also welcome)
Culture
Field Musings (Stories from the field)
Film and Book Reviews
If you are interested in writing, please consult CCS Director Pushpa Iyer with your proposed topic prior to submitting an article.
Essays must be based on empirical research. Submissions should be between 1000 – 1500 words, and include at least two pictures. The Center for Conflict Studies reserves the right to edit all submissions.
Please direct questions to Dr. Pushpa Iyer at ccs@miis.edu. Submissions are due by Feb. 15, 2016
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Call for Submissions – Breaking Down the Shades of Color
Under the guest editorship of Pushpa Iyer, associate professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and director of the Center for Conflict Studies, a part of Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice issue 28(4) will focus on exploring and understanding conflicts centered around race and on approaches that challenge race conflicts.
For this issue, essays are welcomed on a broad range of topics including but not limited to the combination of race and: ethnicity, and religion, and immigration, and class, and gender/sexuality, and culture, and arts, and language, and media, and the criminal justice system (law, law enforcement, prisons), and slavery, and democracy, and politics.
Both academics and practitioners are encouraged to submit essays that appeal to a wide readership. All submissions should be between 2,500-3,500 words together with a 1-2 line bio. Please refer to submission guidelines for more details. Submissions are due by July 15, 2016.
Please direct content-based questions or concerns to Guest Editor Pushpa Iyer (piyer@miis.edu).
For more information, visit Peace Review’s Call for Submissions page.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
CCS is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2015 Conference: Breaking Down Shades of Color: Power, Privilege and Potential in Race Conflicts. The conference will take place November 5-7, 2015 at the Monterey Marriott and MIIS Campus (Samson Reading Room). Registration for the Keynote Address and Reception for students is $20, and $25 for the general public. The first 30 students to register can attend at a discounted rate. The event will be held at 5:30pm on Thursday, November 5th at the Monterey Marriott.
Click here to register now!
Admission includes Ericka Huggins’ keynote address and hors d’oeuvres at the Reception. The panel discussions on Friday and Saturday are free and open to the public, but registration is required. The conference schedule can be viewed here.
If you are unable to attend, but would like to make a donation to support CCS and the race conference, you can do so here (scroll to the bottom of the tickets list).
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
On Tuesday, October 20, CCS together with the Willam Tell Coleman Library at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, will host a discussion on Race and Colonisation through a discussion of the book ‘A Small Place.’ The event will take place at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, October 20 in the DLC Design Space (420 Calle Principal) and is open to public.
Registration to the event is encouraged.
CCS is proud to announce that Ericka Huggins will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Race Conference.
Ericka Huggins is a human rights activist, poet, and educator, as well as a former political prisoner and leader in the Black Panther Party. Upon release from prison in 1972, Ericka became writer and editor for the Black Panther Intercommunal News Service. Ericka was the Director of the Oakland Community School, and created the vision for an innovative curriculum that later became the model for the charter school movement. In 1976, Ericka was both the first woman and first Black person to be appointed to the Alameda County Board of Education. Over the past fifty years she has worked on a variety of issues including education reform, HIV/AIDS, and incarcerated youth. Ericka has lectured on human rights, restorative justice, and the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting social change. To see a detailed biography of Ericka, click here.
Her keynote address is titled “Becoming an Ally: An Antidote to the Disease of Racism.” Her address will be delivered at 5:30 pm on Thursday, November 5th. Registration for the Race Conference will begin on Sunday, October 11th. Please check back soon for a link to the registration page.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
The Monterey County Rape Crisis Center (MCRCC) and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) are partnering to bring the critically acclaimed film “The Hunting Ground” to the Institute’s Irvine Auditorium at 499 Pierce Street, on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.
In the New York Times review of the film, Ann Hornaday stated “’The Hunting Ground’ makes clear that its message isn’t just intellectual, legal and political, but deeply emotional. In a series of harrowing interviews, young women — and a few young men — recount in sickening detail how they were attacked, raped, threatened and discounted on the very campuses that should have been safe harbors for their learning and personal growth.”
The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion in which local experts will illuminate the reality of sexual violence in Monterey County and throughout the world. Panelists include MCRCC’s Executive Director Clare Mounteer, Monterey County Assistant District Attorney Jeannine Pacioni, CSUMB Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Christine Erickson, and Institute Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Conflict Studies Dr. Pushpa Iyer.
Please register online by clicking here to ensure admittance to the film screening, panel discussion, and reception.
Peggy McIntosh, former associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, and the founder and now senior associate of the National SEED Project, will be the keynote speaker at our 2016 conference on transforming race conflicts. Dr. McIntosh is the author of the seminal 1989 article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” Dr. McIntosh directs the Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education Project, which provides workshops on privilege systems, feelings of fraudulence, and diversifying workplaces, curricula, and teaching methods. She is co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute, and has been consulting editor to Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women. In 1993-1994, she consulted with women on 22 Asian campuses on the development of Women’s Studies and programs to bring materials from Women’s Studies into the main curriculum. Please click here for a more detailed biography of Dr. McIntosh.
