Social Justice Institute

The Social Justice Institute and Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee will host “MLK50/Glenville50: Commemorating the Glenville Uprising and Its Legacy 50 Years Later through the Lens of Four Generations,” a conference and critical conversation. The conference will be held Saturday, July 14...

Environmental Health Watch, Rid-All Green Partnership and Case Western Reserve University's Social Justice Institute are holding the Race, Food & Justice Conference: Analyzing the urban food movement through a social justice lens. Attendees will engage in ongoing dialogues that address history, pol...

Gloria Tavera, an MD/PhD candidate, will give a lecture titled "The Role of Students and Universities in the Solution to High Drug Prices" Wednesday, April 11, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Crawford Hall, Room A13. In this talk, she will discuss the position of universities in creating global access to ...

Undergraduate students interested in the Social Justice Institute (SJI) and the social justice minor are invited to a free lunch and information session. SJI academic coordinator John Flores will host an informal conversation about issues important to students and the social justice minor Friday, Ap...

The Social Justice Institute will host Ted Steinberg, the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and professor of law, for a lecture titled “Who’s Afraid of Edward Said? The Palestinians, Antisemitism, and the Culture of Silence.” The lecture will be held Tuesday, April 10, from 7 t...

The Social Justice Institute and the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women will present "Women's Liberation at CWRU: Educating, Empowering, and Creating Social Change from 1965-1972," an event of the center’s Spotlight on Women’s Research series. The event will be Friday, April 6, from 12:30 to 2 p.m...

The Social Justice Institute will host a screening of the documentary Looking Toward Home: An Urban Indian Experience. The showing will be held Wednesday, April 4, at 7 p.m. in Crawford Hall, Room A9. In this documentary film, narrator Conroy Chono (Acoma Pueblo) explains how the 1950s Federal Rel...

The Social Justice Institute has extended the deadline to April 2 for graduate and undergraduate students interested in scholarships to attend the 2018 Left Forum, the largest gathering of leftist scholars in North America. The conference has a history that extends back to the 1960s. This year, the...

The next Social Justice Research Lunch Series event will be held Tuesday, March 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Crawford Hall, Room A13. Merose Hwang, an associate professor of history at Hiram College, will present "A Different PoV: Plea for Academic Rigor on North Korea." Attendees should b...

Representatives from the Health Improvement Partnership-Cuyahoga (HIPCuyahoga) initiative as well as the AmeRicans' Conceptions of Health Equity Study, will lead an interactive discussion about concrete solutions to take action against structural racism and health inequity. Hosted by the School of M...