Events

This workshop features a Visiting Senior Research Associate from the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP). Mziwandile Ndlovu will speak on his research in progress. These CISSR sponsored workshops are presented in partnership with the Chicago Center on Democracy.

• Topic: Gender, Democracy and Authoritarianism: An Analysis of Women’s Representation in Divergent Political Regimes in Africa

This workshop features a Visiting Senior Research Associate from the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP). Mziwandile Ndlovu will speak on his research in progress. These CISSR sponsored workshops are presented in partnership with the Chicago Center on Democracy.

• Topic: Gender, Democracy and Authoritarianism: An Analysis of Women’s Representation in Divergent Political Regimes in Africa

Jonathan Skinner - Dartmouth College

Joao Ramos, USC
Topic: TBA

Youngjae Cha and Elizabeth Janey,
PhD students in Psychology, University of Chicago 

The Chicago Center on Democracy and The Forum on Law and Legalities present Alison LaCroix (Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, Associate Member of the Department of History at The University of Chicago), in conversation with Eric Slauter (Deputy Dean of the Humanities Division and Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division Associate Professor), about LaCroix’s new book The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms. 

About the book: Yale University Press describes the book as a “synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. constitutional vision.” 

LaCroix describes the period between 1815 and 1861, known as the era of the Interbellum Constitution, as an era of profound transformation for American constitutional law and politics. Learn more about the Interbellum Constitution, its historical and political context, and LaCroix’s argument for showing how deeply these constitutional questions dominated the discourse of the time.

Please RSVP; this event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and snacks will be provided.

How much work does it take to make art seem effortless, the laboring body absent? Works By attempts to answer this question by bringing together four Chicago-based artists who share an interest in the many meanings of “labor.” The centerpiece of the exhibition is a floor drawing by Tony Lewis, performatively produced on site. A sculpture by Devin T. Mays features pallets collected during his wanderings around Chicago’s South Side. Erased: (Unrelated), a 2012 photograph by Bethany Collins, captures a cloud of chalk dust released into a black void—the remnants of the word “unrelated” repeatedly written on a blackboard and then erased. A large photo by Ellen Rothenberg depicts a work boot; another captures a giant lump of crumpled paper that was once a Barbara Kruger mural. The fruits of these artists’ labors will be on view from May 1 (International Workers’ Day) through July 14 (Bastille Day)—two dates that commemorate landmark events in the history of the working class.

Curated by Dieter Roelstraete.

The Center for Digital Accessibility is celebrating the 13th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) this April and May, focusing on digital equality for the one billion people in the world living with a disability.

People who are neurodiverse represent one of the largest segments of the disability community. Join us as we discuss how to strengthen our digital experience to remove barriers for people who are neurodiverse, including people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, dyslexia, and more.

This virtual meeting will include Zoom’s automated closed captions.

Speaker: Christina Arellano, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Topic: TBA

Bulat Gafarov, UC Davis
Topic: TBA