11th Annual Korenman Lecture

America is becoming a nation in which communities of color will comprise the majority population by 2040. In her talk, Deepa Iyer, a racial justice advocate and writer, will explore the racial realities affecting people of color, women, and immigrants and refugees in America today. She will share stories of struggle and resistance from communities affected by backlash, xenophobia and Islamophobia. Iyer will provide ideas for maintaining equitable and inclusive policies and institutions that reflect the racial realities and intersectional identities of communities in America.

A book signing will follow the program.

Speaker bio: Deepa Iyer is a South Asian-American writer, lawyer, and racial justice advocate. Iyer’s areas of expertise include the post-9/11 America experiences of South Asian, Muslim, Arab and Sikh immigrants; national security and immigration policies; and racial equity and solidarity practices. Iyer served for a decade as the Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) where she helped to shape SAALT’s work on civil and immigrant rights issues. Her experiences there formed the basis for her first book, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future, which received a 2016 American Book Award and was selected as a top 10 multicultural non-fiction books of 2015 by Booklist.  Since We Too Sing America was published, Iyer has been part of over 50 community conversations around the country on the themes in the book, at college campuses, non-profit organizations, faith-based institutions among others. Iyer’s current work includes a collaborative project around rapid response coordination in the wake of criminalization policies and efforts and a solidarity project which includes a monthly podcast called Solidarity Is This.

• Assistant Community Director
• Residential Academic Initiatives Graduate Assistant
• Graduate Assistant Coordinator of Residential Facilities
• Graduate Assistant for Assessment
• Restorative Initiatives Graduate Assistant

• Maleda Belilgne has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for AY 18-19.
• Purdah and Polygamy: Life in an Indian Muslim Household by Iqbalunnisa Hussain and edited by Jessica Berman was published in February. It contains an introduction and extensive explanatory notes by Berman as well as three essays by other scholars. Originally published in 1944, this book is believed to be the first full-length English language novel written by an Indian Muslim woman.
• Mike Fallon’s comic essay entitled," Red Ferry, Blue Ferry,” about a trip to the Aran Islands in Ireland, is a featured essay on Broad Street Literary Review's website and two of his poems, "Four Horses" and "Shrinking Island," have been published on Narrative Northeast's website. 
• Drew Holladay is sitting on a panel at the Humanities Teaching Lab entitled, "Digital Humanities and Difference in Research and Teaching," part of the Dresher Center for the Humanities' Inclusion Imperative Program on March 8, 2018 at 11:30 AM. He is also presenting a paper, entitled, "Diagnostic Interruption: Social Justice, Autism Advocacy, and Technical Communication," at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing 2018 Conference in Kansas City.
• Kate McKinley will be presenting a paper entitled, "Stewes, Southwark, and the Tabard Inn: the Opening Dinner in the Canterbury Tales" at the Fourth International Convention on Food History and Cultures, University of Tours, France, from June 6-8, 2018. 
• Orianne Smith is presenting a paper entitled, “Open to Interpretation: Romantic Women Writers and the ‘Spirit’ of Translation,” at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) conference at Brown University, Rhode Island, from June 22-25, 2018. She is also presenting a paper entitled, “Gender and Supernatural Alliance in Scott’s The Bride of Lamermoor and Baillie’s Witchcraft,” at the Eleventh Annual Walter Scott Conference, Sorbonne University, Paris, on July 11, 2018. Her essay on “Rational Dissent” is forthcoming in 2019 with Routledge in an edited collection entitled The Wollstonecraftian Mind.