Social Justice Institute

The Social Justice Institute is calling for proposals for Faculty Research Fellows for the 2019-20 school year. Funding from $2,500 to $10,000 is available to tenured, tenure-track or other permanent faculty members who can demonstrate a long-term commitment to social justice at Case Western Reserve...

The Social Justice Institute and the Kelvin Smith Library invite the Case Western Reserve University community to the opening of a new exhibit, Thirty: Exploring Artistically the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The opening will be held Thursday, Jan. 24, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Kelvin Smi...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to start their holiday shopping by supporting a global economy rooted in people-to-people connections, justice and sustainability at the Fair Trade for the Holidays sale. The Social Justice Institute will host the sale Monday, Dec...

Activist, author, editor and scholar Don Freeman (ADL '61) will read from and discuss his autobiography, Reflections of a Resolute Radical, Wednesday, Nov. 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Linsalata Alumni Center. Doors will open at 6 p.m. About the speaker A lifelong Cleveland resident and graduat...

Award-winning Brazilian artist Angélica Dass will be on campus to photograph individuals of all races, ethnicities, gender expressions and experiences, for a public art installation next spring. The 456 Project focuses on the role that the environment plays in exacerbating the risk of sexual violen...

The Social Justice Institute and La Alianza invite the campus community to a celebration of poetry, art and music. The event will raise money for HOLA, a northeast Ohio-based grassroots organization that focuses on community organizing, leadership development, civic engagement and immigration reform...

The Social Justice Institute invites the Case Western Reserve University community to a talk titled “Montaña de Luz: Transforming HIV/AIDS Care in Honduras” Friday, Nov. 9, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center ballroom. Montaña de Luz began as a hospice for children in Honduras, ...

The Social Justice Institute will host an evening of conversation concerning the hidden costs and long-term economic implications of incarceration. Tim Black, co-director of the Social Justice Institute, will moderate the discussion, titled “The Economic Cost of Collateral Sanctions: Economic Devel...

The Social Justice Institute will host a talk with Bruce Western, author of Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison, Friday, Oct. 26, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Thwing Center ballroom. Western is a professor of sociology and co-director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University. Homeward: Life in t...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to hear from Native American activist and environmentalist Faith Spotted Eagle, who provided Indigenous leadership during the gatherings at Standing Rock and protests against the North Dakota Access Pipeline. The event, titled “Tr...