Spring 2023 Events
Freedom To Learn National Day of Action
Skidmore Student Solidarity
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
The following Academic Festival presenters have affirmed that their work is in solidarity with the principles of Freedom To Learn.
Lea Leventhal,Self-Determined Social Justice/Dance double major,āMovement, Daoism, and Social Actionā,Thomas Myhill
Art/Gender Studies double major,āThe Radical Acceptance of Saint Marinos,ā
Aaron Shellow-Lavine,American Studies major/Black Studies minor,"Confronting Copaganda in American Politics and Media"
Raven Jade Villa,American Studies major/Black Studies minor,"Strike, Pose: Locating (Trans)Cultural Geographies in American History and Culture"
Screening and Panel Discussion: Outta The Muck
Tue, Apr 11 @ 7:00pm, Davis Aud - Skidmore College
Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family,
longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. Take a journey back home,
with filmmaker Ira McKinley, to the land of sugarcane, as he reconnects with his niece
Bridget and nephew Alvin and explores their shared family history that spans seven
generations. Told through stories that transcend space and time, Outta The Muck presents
a community, and a family, that resists despair with love, remaining fiercely self-determined,
while forging their own unique narrative of Black achievement.
Presented with co-directors Ira McKinley and Bhawin Suchak in attendance for Q&A.
Sponsored by Skidmore's MDOCS and Media & FilmStudies, and the Black Studies Program.
āContemporary Mohawk Voices: Past, Present and Futureā with Tom Sakokwenionkwas Porter, Mohawk Elder and Kay Ionataiewas Olan, Mohawk Storyteller
Monday April 3, 2023 5pm
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Filene Recital Hall
Free and Open to the Public
"Blackness in Mexico"
Anthony Russell Jerry
Monday, March 27th, 6pm, Gannett
Professor Jerry visits our campus to discuss his new book Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican
Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica (University of Florida
Press - May 23'). Professor Anthony Russell Jerry will join Professor Bernardo Ramirez
Rios in a sit-down conversation exploring the history, culture, and experiences of
black communities in Mexico.
Professor Anthony Russell Jerry is a professor of anthropology at the University of
California Riverside (UCR). He has worked in the Costa Chica Region of Mexico for
over a decade. His primary research interests are in theorizing the relationships
between race and citizenship and investigating the influence that regional discourses
of race and racism have on citizenship practices and overall access to citizenship.
He is the recipient of several awards, including the Fulbright Garcia Robles Fellowship,
a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and a University of California Chancellorās
Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Exploremore 2023
Monday, February 27, 4:30-5:30 pm, Murray-Aikins Dining Hall
