Events

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.

Join us as we applaud people across UChicago who have strengthened the accessibility of their digital materials (websites, courses, documents, videos, emails, and more) or created more inclusive processes.

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

Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities.

Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative

Literary Studies. Affiliate, Gender Studies, Poetry and Poetics.                                  

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.

Please join us on May 20 in Haskell Hall 315 for this year’s Anthropology Undergraduate Symposium, which will showcase the work of graduating fourth years who have completed a BA Thesis for Departmental Honors.

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.

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

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