DES Symposium Spring 2024
Why Ethnic Studies Matters: Resilience and Intersectional BIPOC Futurisms
Celebrating 30 Years of the Department of Ethnic Studies (DES) at CU Boulder
Funded by the Mellon FoundationÂ
April 22, 2024:Â Abrams Lounge (C4C)
 9:30am - 10:00am    Coffee / Breakfast
10:00am - 10:05am    Welcome: Arturo Aldama, DES Chair
10:05am - 11:30am    Taking Ethnic Studies Outside of the Ivory Tower & into K-12: Panel w/alums & current BAM studentsÂ
11:30am - 12:15pm    LunchÂ
12:15pm - 12:30pm    Spoken word: featuring Briannah Hill and Mateo Vela (Ethnic Studies alums)
12:30pm -  2:00pm    Ethnic Studies in Colorado: Panel with undergraduate students from CSU, CU Boulder, CU Denver, and UCCS
 2:00pm -  3:15pm    Intersectional Decolonial Visions: Panel with CU Boulder Ethnic Studies doctoral students
  3:15pm -  3:30pm    Break
 3:30pm -  4:30pm    Processing the Present, Envisioning the Future: roundtable w/current CU Boulder DES faculty          Â
 4:30pm -  4:45pm     Break
 4:45pm -  6:00pm        Honoring our Past: Activist Voices 30 Years after the 1994 Hunger Strike
 6:00pm -  7:30pm        Reception & Dinner
