Rights and Wrongs: A Constitution Day Conference at San Francisco State University

Moderator: Jennifer Shea (SFSU School of Public Affairs & Civic Engagement) 

• M. Ernita Joaquin (SFSU Public Administration Program): “Can the Constitution Withstand ‘Retribution’? How Four Years of Rebuilding Stacks Up Against Trump’s Agenda” 
• Tony Sparks (SFSU Urban Studies & Planning Program): “Cruel But Not Unusual: Civil Rights v. Urban Aesthetics in the Jefferson v. Grants Pass SCOTUS Decision” 
• Emiko Takagi (SFSU Gerontology Program): “Civic Engagement in Aging Societies: Addressing Ageism as a Human Rights Issue” 
• Mira Foster (SFSU Libraries): “Judicial Responses to Book Banning in Libraries”

Moderator: Eric Mar (SFSU Asian American Studies Department) 

• Richard Chang (Citizen Wong Project): “Wong Chin Foo (1847-1898): The First Asian American Civil Rights Leader” 
• Russell Jeung (SFSU Asian American Studies Department): “Stop AAPI Hate and the Fight to Protect Our Civil Rights”
• Joyce Xi (Photographer and Activist): “Racial Profiling of Chinese Americans in the Name of National Security”

Moderator: James Martel (SFSU Political Science Department) 

• Persis Karim (SFSU Humanities and Comparative World Literature Department): “Redefining Anti-Semitism to Undermine Academic Freedom and Pro-Palestinian Speech” 
• Blanca Missé (SFSU Modern Languages and Literatures Department): “On the Recent Use of Title VI Investigations to Silence Free Speech for Palestine” 

Moderator: Teresa Pratt (SFSU Linguistics Program, English Language and Literature Department) 

• Jenny Lederer (SFSU Linguistics Program, English Language and Literature Department) and Maxwell Goodwin (SFSU Linguistics Program, English Language and Literature Department): “Metaphors of the Labor Movement: How Language Shapes the Union-Management Divide” 

Welcome: Dean Ifeoma Nwankwo, SFSU College of Liberal & Creative Arts

Moderator: Marc Stein, SFSU History Department 

Biography: Khiara M. Bridges, a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, is a leading scholar of race, class, reproductive rights, and their intersections. Her scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, and Virginia Law Review, among others. She is the author of three books: Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (2011); The Poverty of Privacy Rights (2017); and Critical Race Theory: A Primer (2019). Her fourth book, Expecting Inequity: Race, Class, and Reproductive Justice, is under contract with MIT Press and will be published in 2025. She is also a co-editor of a reproductive justice book series that is published under the imprint of the University of California Press. Bridges graduated as valedictorian from Spelman College, receiving her degree in three years. She received her JD from Columbia Law School and her Ph.D., with distinction, from Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology. 

Moderator: Guillaume Marche (University of Paris-Est Créteil English Department) 

• William Clark (SFSU English Language and Literature Department): “Abandoned Rights, Unequal Futures: Critically Narrating 14th Amendment Failures through W.E.B. Dubois’s and Derrick Bell’s Science Fiction” 
• Paul P. DeAngelis (SFSU Paralegal Studies Program): “Justice Ginsburg: Her Work in the 1970s to Expand 14th Amendment Protections” 

Moderator: Kasturi Ray (SFSU Women and Gender Studies Department) 

• Mahmood Monshipuri (SFSU International Relations Department): “Israel’s Genocide and War Crimes in Gaza” 
• Fatima Zahrae (SFSU Communication Studies Department): “Algerian Perspectives on the South African Case in the International Court of Justice” 
• Charles Postel (SFSU History Department): Why the South African Case at the International Court of Justice Puts the United States in the Dock” 

Moderator: Chrissy Lau (Asian American Studies Department) 

Roundtable Participants:

• Sydney Jackson (SFSU History Department)
• Ernest Olivar (SFSU Asian American Studies Department)
• Hal Saga (SFSU Race and Resistance Studies Department)
• Charlene Olivar (SFSU Biology Department)
• Tiffany Caesar (SFSU Africana Studies Department)
• Rama Kased (SFSU Race and Resistance Studies Department) 

Moderator: Charles Postel (SFSU History Department)

• Zachary Greenberg (SFSU History Department): “Psychiatric Authority, the U.S. Constitution, and the Rise and Fall of the ‘Sexual Psychopath,’ 1938-1973” 
• Tara Madhhav (University of California, Berkeley, History Department): “Special Education, Desegregation, and the Fight against IQ Testing” 
• Julian Moreno (SFSU History Department): “The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Reconstruction: Charting the Language of Reform from Dissents to Majorities” 

Welcome: TBA 

Moderator: Marc Stein, SFSU History Department 

Biography: Rana Marie Jaleel is an Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York Univ., a JD from the Yale Law School, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2013 to 2015, Jaleel was the Center for Reproductive Rights Fellow at Columbia Law School. At UC Davis, she is a 2022-25 Chancellor’s Fellow, a 2021-24 College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Faculty Fellow, and the recipient of the 2024 Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity and Community. Her first book, The Work of Rape, received a 2021 Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award and was co-winner of the 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize from the National Women's Studies Association. Her work also has been published by Amerasia, Critical Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Social Text, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Brooklyn Law Review. A longtime member of the American Association of University Professors, she chairs Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.