Spring 2023 Events
March 23: Philip V. McHarris
Beyond the Market: Black and Indigenous Approaches to Social Housing and Collective Land Share
March 28: Adom Getachew
Africa Reimagined: British West African Periodicals and the Rise of Garveyism
Co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science and presented by the Nicholson Center for British Studies
April 6: Mark Rifkin
Enfamilyment, Political Orders, and the Racializing Work of Scale
April 14: Valerie C. Johnson
State Legislative Gag Orders: The Cost to Democracy and Higher Education
Co-sponsored with the University of Chicago Law School and presented by the Zell Speaker Series on Free Expression
April 20: Kris Manjapra
Maroon Ecologies of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, 1860-1930
April 21-22: Lauren Berlant Graduate Student Conference
Power over Life and Death: Feminism, Abolition, and the State
Organized by Daniel Epstein, Kit Ginzky, and Helen Galvin Ross and 3CT with support from the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago; the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture’s Reimagining the University: Race and Freedom Initiative; the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity; the Department of Political Science; the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights; Human Rights Lab; the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge; University of Chicago Graduate Council; the Franke Institute for the Humanities; and International House Global Voices Program
April 24: The Ayotomi Project
Performances by DJ Neurys and Robe L. Ninho
Supported by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture’s Reimagining the University grant
May 4: Alaina Roberts
Reconciliation in the Heart of Indian Country?: A Journey Through Identity
May 10: Psalm One
The Art of Talking Trash: Hip-Hop and Invective Poetry in the 21st Century
Co-sponsored with the Department of Music, Department of Classics, and Program in Creative Writing
May 15: Community Commemoration
The South Side’s Sit-in: 1943
In partnership with the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project, the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
May 16: Awi’nakola
Regenerating Land and Culture, a gathering of art and ideas
Supported by the University of Chicago’s Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry; Office of the Provost; and Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society; and by the Center for Native Futures. Additional support for the Awi’nakola artists’ visit is provided by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Watershed: Art + Ecology
May 18: Teresa Montoya & SJ Zhang
Tracing Relations: Cultivating Connections between Blackness and Indigeneity at UChicago
May 19: Moya Bailey, Brooklyne Gipson, & AE Stevenson
Online, Everyone Knows You Hate Women: A Roundtable on Misogynoir
Presented in partnership with the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
June 1: Audra Simpson
Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow