Social Justice Institute

The CWRU Cox International Law Center, the Social Justice Institute and International Partners in Mission (IPM) will co-sponsor a panel discussion titled "Planting the Seeds of Violence: How U.S. Involvement in El Salvador Led to Today’s Migration Crisis" Monday, Oct. 12, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. ET. The...

Join the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship to learn about the history of the Hough neighborhood with the Cleveland Neighborhood Series. The first installment, titled "History of Hough," will take place today (Oct. 5) at 1:30 p.m. The discussion will include John Grabowski (GRS '77), the Krieger...

David Livingstone Smith, University of New England professor and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner, will provide an online lecture and discussion on his new book On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 12:45 p.m. Case Western Reserve University campus community memb...

The Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity (OIDEO) will host a lecture titled "Burst the Bubble—Build Community" Wednesday, Sept. 30, from 3 to 4 p.m. The lecture is part of the OIDEO's annual Power of Diversity Lecture Series. This event will feature Mark Chupp, co-director of the ...

Last week, the Case Western Reserve Sustained Dialogue Program created an opportunity for members of the campus and neighboring communities to continue the conversations that began earlier this year surrounding equity, inclusion and racism through a Day of Dialogue. In the opening session, universi...

The recent series of police attacks against Black Americans, and the widespread outrage in response, have sparked a flood of conversations surrounding equity and justice across the country and around the world. At Case Western Reserve, students, staff, faculty and alumni have shared their experience...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Interreligious Council, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Social Justice Institute, and the Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity to honor all of those killed by systemic racism and police brutali...

In the 15 days since George Floyd was killed, protests have stretched across the country and around the world. Some local leaders have vowed to reallocate portions of police budgets to community investment, while others have called for defunding of departments. And books like White Fragility and Ho...

Mark Chupp and Ayesha Bell Hardaway have been named co-directors of the Social Justice Institute, effective May 1. They succeed the College of Arts and Sciences’ John Flores, associate professor in the Department of History, and Timothy Black, associate professor in the Department of Sociology, whos...

Join the Social Justice Institute for "AmeRÍcan: Celebrating Puerto Rican Resistance and Resilience," an event highlighting the history of social movements in Puerto Rico and the diaspora, the intersection of arts and activism, the question of building community power, and the need for political adv...