A Zoom Webinar | April 21, 2021 | 6:30 p.m. CDT

Join us for a conversation with members of the Rice community in the wake of the trial and conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.

A Zoom Webinar | April 14, 2021 | 6:00 p.m. CDT

Join two eminent historians of Houston and Texas for a close look at black life and culture beyond the university (music and sports especially), and a discussion of what this larger world holds and has held for Rice.

A Zoom Webinar | March 31, 2021 | Noon CDT

Join undergraduate and graduate students from The Racial Geography Project research collective to learn about their ongoing work on the entanglement of campus histories with the histories of slavery, segregation, and racial injustice.

A Zoom Webinar | March 24, 2021 | Noon CDT

In 1847, a young woman named Isabella sued for her freedom in a Louisiana court. Isabella had been among the 1,000 or so African captives who had been smuggled into Brazoria County, Texas, from Cuba during the 1830s. Using court testimony, the talk traces Isabella’s journey through the various slave systems of the 19th century, revealing the many imperfect connections that linked Texas plantation society with the wider world.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology

A Zoom Webinar | December 1, 2020 | 6-7:30 p.m. CST

Raymond Johnson came to Rice University in 1963 to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics. After a year working as a graduate assistant and awaiting the outcome of a suit meant to bar him from the university, he enrolled at Rice in 1964. Johnson became one of the university’s first African American students (two black undergraduates, Charles Freeman and Jacqueline McCauley enrolled the next year). 

A Zoom Webinar | November 5, 2020 | 6-7:30 p.m. CST

On Sept. 26, 1962, the Rice Board of Governors (now Board of Trustees) unanimously passed a resolution to desegregate the university, changing course from Rice’s 50–year practice of exclusively admitting white students.

A Zoom Webinar | October 22, 2020 | 6-7:30 p.m.

Moderated by Eden King: Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Psychology and College Magister, Duncan College
Remarks by Catherine Clack: Associate Dean of Undergraduates and Director of Multicultural Affairs

A Zoom Webinar | October 7, 2020 | 6-7:30 p.m.

Moderated by Summar McGee, a member of the Rice University Class of 2020.

A Zoom Webinar | September 21, 2020 | Noon CST

Please join us for a special webinar with Fuentes and White to discuss what other universities can learn from the Rutgers story, particularly in a moment of renewed protest and political struggle over the legacies of slavery and dispossession today.

A Zoom Webinar | July 6, 2020 |  Noon CST

How should universities confront and redress histories of racism on campus? When should monuments go? What lessons can history offer us in the present and for the future? Join us for a dialogue with four leading historians about where universities have been and where they are headed.