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Events from November 19, 2025 – April 24, 2025 – Sawyer Seminar Series Events from November 19, 2025 – April 24, 2025 – Sawyer Seminar Series

Latest Past Events

Keith Mayes: The Unteachables Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education

Register to receive Zoom link Professor Keith Mayes's recent book, The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education (University of Minnesota Press), examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system and public policy, it … Read More

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Textual Life: A Book Launch and Conversation with Wendell Marsh & R.A. Judy

Source of Knowledge 867 Broad Street, Newark

Join Drs. Wendell H. Marsh and R.A. Judy for an engaging discussion on Textual Life, a groundbreaking book that recasts the role of knowledge in the making of a colonial and postcolonial nation. It makes a case for a new literary and intellectual-historical approach to Islam in Africa.

Audible & SASN Environmental and Climate Justice Lecture Series

Express Newark, Room 213 54 Halsey Street, Newark

The SASN-Audible Environmental and Climate Justice Lecture What Now?!: Research, Learning, & Doing During Climate Catastrophe and Hyper-racial Capitalism brings together community organizers, scholars, and students to examine the existential challenges posed by climate change. This event will feature a keynote by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture, Vincent Mann, Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation Turtle Clan, María López … Read More

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