Appropriation Series: Part Two

What constitutes cultural appropriation, and when is it unethical? Should we adopt voices beyond our own, and if so then what factors must be weighed beforehand?  

Pressing on hard research questions may lead to ethical dilemmas of how to speak in relation to another. This panel will discuss what it means to think, research, and write across cultures and ways of being. 

This is the second of two panels on appropriation in Fall 2024. 

Bio: Carlos Velez-Ibanez is a Regents Professor in Anthropology and Founding Director Emeritus, School of Transborder Studies at ASU. In 2022, he was elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2023, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Association. 

Bio: Curtis Austin is the Associate Director of the Humanities Institute and a historian in SHPRS.  He studies African American history with a focus on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. His first book, Up Against the Wall, examines the history of the Black Panther Party. Austin recently completed a second book entitled “Dare to Struggle: A History of the Black Power Movement.” He is currently writing “Dare to Win: A History of San Francisco 8.”

This hybrid event is hosted by Humanities Institute.