On July 13th, 2023, members of GSOC partnered with #DouglassWeek: a collaborative event series celebrating the work and life of Frederick Douglass in different countries around the world, organized by The Globe Lane Initiative in partnership with a wide network of Douglass scholars, historians and researchers.
Program Description: The life of a graduate student is overloaded with lab work, research, conferences, emails, presentations, scheduled and impromptu meetings, reviews, more emails, coursework, organizational events, networking events. These tasks can get even more complicated when considering one’s identities in academic politics, such as race and gender. In the spirit of Frederick Douglass, in a conversation led by Micah Williams, Dominique Townsend, Yash Chitrakar, and Nashae Prout, four Ph.D. students at the University of Rochester, we discussed and expanded upon the ways students of color survive /thrive /provide /reside /deny the spaces that historically have intended to erase their narratives from the world.
You can access the convo here: https://youtu.be/pBx9nbLeR-s?si=3g0_XIy950ERjZyc
To see more about #DouglassWeek and other interesting initiatives dedicated to the study of Black scholarship, visit https://douglassweek.org/.
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