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Department of Ethnic Studies graduate student Shawn Trenell O'Neal has been invited to give a distinguished speaker lecture for Drexel University in Philadelphia regarding his developing theory on audio intersectionality: disrupting hegemonic structures against marginalized communities. The interactive presentation is on Thursday, July 9, 3:00 – 4:30pm MST via live webcast. . , and a Zoom Link invite will be distributed the day of the presentation to prevent Zoom Bombing.

Shawn has curated a  ahead of tomorrow’s event, for those who are interested in listening. 

This interactive presentation conjoins intersectional contexts of race, gender, sexuality and class with sound, music and performance studies to determine, demarcate and evaluate the methods in which sound and music have been used operationally as a method of subjugation and normalization or as strategies of resistance and platforms of activism (survival) aimed at African American and Queer African American communities in the United States. However, this can be applied to diasporic communities of Africana, Asian, Latinx, Chicanx, Middle Eastern and Indigenous descent globally.

Shawn Trenell O'Neal is a fourth-year PhD candidate in critical/comparative ethnic studies specializing in Black/Africana studies, Critical race theory, women of color feminism, Black queer theory and musicology. Shawn instructs courses that include Intro to Hip Hop Studies, Critical Sports Studies, African American History, and Media and Globalization.

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We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Ruth Glenn Award, our DES Graduate Research Fellowships, and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award.

• LeAnna Luney received the Ruth Glenn Award to support her dissertation research exploring the intersections of power and how they impact forgotten people's realities, in tandem with Ruth M. Glenn’s mission to bring attention to domestic violence and how networks of power exacerbate such violence at various intersections. 
• Shawn O’Neal received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support his dissertation project, Audio Intersectionality: Disrupting Hegemonic Structures Against Marginalized Communities.
• LeAnna Luney received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation study, How African American College Students Cope at the ��ɫ��Ƶ.
• Natasha Myhal received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation research, Returning to Our Stories: Healing from the Land Within Ottawa Natural Resource Management.
• LeAnna Luney received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award for her work: “The Decoloniality in Black Psychology: Discovering Implications of Decolonial Options in Black or African American Psychology Discourse.”
• Jenean McGee received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for her paper, “The Unscripted Script of Black YouTube (BYT): African American Women Family Vloggers Performance of Whiteness Through Property.”
• Lau Malaver also received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for their paper, “Performing a Commons of Pain Through Recovecos: Excess, Silence, Endurance, and Coloniality.” 
   

Congratulations to all!

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We are pleased to announce the recipients of our DES Graduate Research Fellowships and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award.

• Cassandra Gonzalez received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation project, Remnants of Chattel: Black Women, Sex Trafficking, and the Criminal Justice System
• Deanne Grant received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support the completion of her dissertation over the summer, titled, Indigenous Women at the Heart: Decolonial Feminisms to Imagine Sexual Realities.
• Lau Malaver received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award for her work: "A Critical Theory of Decolonization Through Recovecos: From the Perspective of the Colonized, Towards the Liberation of All"
• Alejandra Portillos received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for her paper, "Breaking the ICE: Understanding Latinx Experiences with Immigration Detention and Deportation."
• Shawn O’Neal also received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for his paper, "Eunice Kathleen Waymon: Content Analysis of Nina Simone and the Essential Positioning of Critical Africana Womanism Theory." 

Congratulations to all!

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Please consider attending the distinct, online DICATS event on February 23, 2019. DES PhD Student Shawn Trenell O’Neal will be performing his collaborative project Hands of Midnight with the assistance of CU Instructor of Media Professor Patrick Clark. Our time slot is Saturday, February 23 from 2-3pm.  Feel free to attend live in person: We will be located in the stadium - Gate 7 - upstairs in suite 255

From our : “the Digital International Creative Arts Therapies Symposium (DICATS) is a unique 24-hour multi-site, web-based peer-reviewed symposium. DICATS aims to bring together practitioners in the fields of arts and arts therapies around the world to learn about usages of digital devices, new media, and immersive tools for therapeutic and educational interventions. DICATS will expand existing arts therapies’ education and therapy practices, showcase innovative work, and promote interdisciplinary collaborations and conversations across the globe.”

We have shared in a following table the local times that each Symposium Hive will start and end and provide a visual overview of the timeline of how it is moving around the world. You can choose to participate in what you can or have interest for, or you can stay with us throughout the whole symposium!

Note: Please do this ASAP as it will build energy and critical mass for our YouTube channel. You will not need to pay anything to watch and participate in the symposium the day of the event but we need you to be a subscriber to the channel to tune in!

Visit , then go to the Philadelphia Hive program page. Use Program Tab for Info: Philadelphia: Under Hands of Midnight: Look for Names (Shawn Trenell O’Neal etc.). Use Attend Tab to Link on to YouTube Site for Performance.

Additionally, we will be providing hashtags for each Hive site so that localized, active, and at-a-distance participation can become real time elements shared via social media sites on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Before the event and the ‘day of’ you may tune into these social media sites to receive, create, and share response art, and send your commentary and/or questions with symposium participants, Hive teams, and other audience members.

As shared previously, there will be immersive experiences possible during this symposium as some presentations, videos, and live content will be utilizing 360 photography and virtual reality (VR) immersive technologies. If you do not already use or own VR equipment, there are cheap to more expensive options available in VR equipment and you can contact our team for suggestions. On the day of the symposium, you can experience this symposium either with or without VR googles because their use is not necessary to experience the symposium. The bare minimum equipment you need are an Internet connection (preferably Ethernet and stable broad width) to access to our You tube channel and a tablet, laptop or desktop computer to watch and listen with.

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We would like to recognize the great work by our graduate student Shawn O'Neal. 

Shawn gave a talk at the Inclusive Sport Summit today, February 15, 2018, in the Touchdown Club.

His talk, "Discussing Dissent: Social Justice and Sport," generated a stimulating conversation about social justice and sport. 

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