May 6, 2022

UW Public Lecture Trilogy Focuses on CRT and Resilience

^{4/22/2022 – Victoria Robinson}

In the Winter Quarter of 2022, the UW Office of Public Lectures hosted a series of presentations focused on defining and applying Critical Race Theory (CRT). These lectures featured the research and experience of three UW staff/faculty members, each highlighting the importance of using a CRT lens in the work we do at the University, as well as the interconnection between anti-racist practice and other forms of justice.  

Watch all three lectures from featured speakers below: 

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Part I: THE ORIGINS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND ITS RELEVANCE TODAY 

^{Angélica Cházaro 
Assistant Professor, UW School of Law} 
 
Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law, discusses the origins of Critical Race Theory (CRT), ideas that unify CRT, and applications of CRT in a 2022 Seattle context. Both her scholarship and advocacy focus on shrinking reliance on policing, punishment, and incarceration as a response to social problems. She has worked with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project to represent immigrant survivors of violence and provide immigration legal services to farmworkers. 

 

 

Part II: SUPPORTING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES DURING DUAL PANDEMICS 

^{Megan Kennedy 
Director, UW Resilience Lab} 

The dual and intertwined pandemics of racism and COVID-19 underscore the importance of building resilience as a community. While simultaneously coping with the trauma of systemic racism, communities are doubly affected by the global health crisis, suffering impacts to their physical, mental and financial well-being. Megan Kennedy, director of the UW Resilience Lab, draws ideas from the lab’s current initiatives to highlight how resilience is a community project. 

 

Part III: THE RESILIENCY OF CRT: SURVIVING THROUGH TRUTH 

^{Edwin Lindo 
Associate Teaching Professor, UW Medical Student Education} 

Associate Teaching Professor Edwin Lindo’s research and scholarship has focused on the history of racialized medicine, race and racism within medicine, social justice and social movements, and decolonized pedagogies for critical education. He brings the interdisciplinary study of Critical Race Theory, Latino/a Critical Theory, and others to Medicine and Law so we can better learn how racism detrimentally affects our health, our learning, our teaching, and justice. 

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Interested in learning more about how resilience, resistance and race intertwine? As part of the Resilience Lab’s commitment to anti-racist systemic change at the University of Washington, we have partnered with the Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity in their mission to engage in equity-focused dialogues across a broad range of disciplines, social positions, and areas of expertise.  

Our upcoming event – Resistance Through Resilience: CCDE 7th Annual Conference – is a two-day culmination of our lecture series, consisting of a two-part listening session and a panel discussion, showcasing dialogues from featured speakers alongside elements of the Resistance Through Resilience curriculum. The event will take place virtually on May 18-19, 2022. Read more and register for the event here.