THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Past Events
Thursday, May 16, 2024 | 5:00-6:30 p.m.
SSRB, Room 122, 1126 E. 59th St, Chicago IL
For event details, click here.
April 7, 2024 | 9:00am - 4:30pm
Swift Hall - 1025 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637
A celebration of the groundbreaking scholarship and outstanding mentorship of Professor Michael C. Dawson.
October 26: Raymond Orr (University of Miami)
4-5:30 pm, Kelly 108
October 30: Kelly McDonough (UT Austin)
12-1:30 pm, Kelly 108
November 2: Jorge Ramirez-Lopez (UCLA)
4-5:30 pm, Kelly 108
November 7: J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Wesleyan)
12-1:30 pm, Kelly 108
November 9: Jodi Byrd (Cornell)
4-5:30 pm, Kelly 108
November 13: Chad Infante (Maryland)
12-1:30 pm, Kelly 108
November 16: Brenna Bhandar (UBC)
4-5:30 pm, Kelly 108
November 27: Bethany Hughes (Michigan)
12-1:30 pm, Kelly 108
4-5:30 pm, Kelly 108
December 4: Uahikea Maile (Toronto)
12-1:30 pm, Kelly 108
September 28: Welcome Back Party and Housewarming
5-6:30, Kelly 108
October 3: Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
5-7:00pm, Location information will be shared with registrants.
October 5: University of Chicago Forum Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression
4-5:30pm, Friedman Hall
Canceled: October 5: Afro-Indigenous Intersections, Past and Present
5-6:30pm, Swift Hall, 3rd Floor
October 7: The Arts Lawn Grand Opening
2-7:00pm, 337 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago IL
Beyond the Market: Black and Indigenous Approaches to Social Housing and Collective Land Share
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
Enfamilyment, Political Orders, and the Racializing Work of Scale
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
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
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
Reconciliation in the Heart of Indian Country: A Journey Through Identity
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
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
Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow
“Then the Nettle People won’t be lonely”: Indigenous ways of knowing, kin relations, and climate change education”
February 2: Tarren Andrews, Blaire Morseau, Hi’ilei Hobart
Panel: Form and Method in Indigenous Studies
Fugitive Lands: Indigenous Slavery and Sovereignty in the Early American South
Reading in/and Indigenous Archives
October 6: Joanne Barker, San Francisco State University
The Murderable Indian: Terror as State (in)Security
October 20: Abdellali Hajjat, Free Univ. of Brussels
The Wretched of France: The 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism
November 10: K-Sue Park, Georgetown Univ.
Homesteading and the American Dream
November 17: Manu Karuka, Barnard College
The Necessity of the Future
December 1: Shanya Cordis, Columbia; Khalil Johnson, Wesleyan; Chad Infante, Univ. of Maryland College Park
Indigenous Studies and Black Studies: New Directions
December 8: Matthew Kruer, Univ. of Chicago
Nations before the Nation-State: Indigenous Subjecthood within the British Empire