CCSRE Faculty Seminar Series, “Provostial Fellows Lightning Talks,” in conversation with Bryan Brown

This lightning talk explores ongoing research into whether targeted outreach to minority-serving institutions and highlighting role models from underrepresented groups can help diversify innovation programs. I'll discuss early insights, current challenges, and potential strategies to encourage broader participation among future innovators.

 

Nearly all the Muslim majority countries in West Africa are contending with the rise of religious movements leading armed struggle to re-establish defunct medieval and early modern African Islamic empire-states, implement God's laws as opposed to man-made laws, and overthrow the constituted post-imperial secular polities and fragmented nation-states that were violently established during the twentieth-century European conquest. The contemporary religious movements underpin their ideas with the campaign to 'restore' Islamic civilization in West Africa to its pristine form, as they imagined Islam to have been before European colonialism. This lightning talk explores the historical background of these present tensions. 

 

What is the relationship between singing style, artificial intelligence, and histories of racial slavery? This lightning talk examines the surprising mobilization of legal tropes pertaining to involuntary servitude by music industry actors in response to recent computational advances that have made it easier than ever to simulate the distinctive manner of singers’ and rappers’ vocal delivery without those artists’ consent. 

 

This lightning talk explores how the United Daughters of the Confederacy strategically deployed "Lost Cause" ideology in the early 20th century Jim Crow South to maintain white elite dominance in areas with both Black human capital advancement and high intra-white inequality, examining ideology's role as a tool in preserving hierarchies while managing tensions within dominant-status groups.

 

Using newly linked historical tax data, this lightning talk will discuss findings on changes in intergenerational mobility across race and space over the 20th century. It delves into place-based policies that have shaped the landscape of economic opportunity and future work to explore mechanisms behind these trends.