Events

Join the Chicago Center on Democracy, Chicago Studies and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality as we embark on a bus tour around Chicago’s most prominent women’s suffrage sites, where women gathered, organized, and fought for social change. The bus tour will cover the history of the women’s suffrage movement in Chicago by exploring landmarks related to eminent historical figures who fought for women’s voting rights, including Ida B. Wells, Fannie Barrier Williams, Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, Jane Addams, and Celia Parker Woolley, as well as more recent feminist sites, such as the “I’m Speaking” mural by Dorian Sylvain featuring Kamala Harris’ famous words.

The tour will be led by Fiona Maxwell, a PhD Candidate in the History Department who is writing her dissertation on “Democratic Ensembles: Spoken Art and Politics at Chicago Settlement Houses, 1890-1920.” Fiona received her BA in History and Theatre from Northwestern University. She has contributed to public history projects with the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, the Center for Women’s History and Leadership, and the Newberry Library. She provides coaching in public speaking and improv, and she has performed in storytelling venues throughout the Chicago area.

This event is co-sponsored by the Chicago Center on Democracy, Chicago Studies and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Please RSVP; Tour includes free lunch at Greektown.

Join the University of Chicago Center for Awareness, Resolution, Education, and Support on the first floor of Regenstein Library to learn more about the work they do on campus.

Eva Vivalt, University of Toronto and University of Oxford Topic: TBA

Thirty years of democracy in South Africa has seen large scale investments in infrastructures of housing, electricity and welfare, as well as efforts to establish new modes of local democratic participation. While political contestation is common—with the ruling party set to face its most serious challenge yet in 2024 elections— a discourse of political abandonment has also emerged, tying infrastructural failures to more general neglect by the government.

In this paper, Dubbeld will discuss these claims of abandonment, tracing this expression of political discontent to the hinterland where many in a government housing project consider themselves abandoned both by politicians and by the practice of democracy itself, which they consider abstracted from the specific care they require. This paper asks: How might a “progressive” democratic government in Global South treat those rendered a “surplus population” from the perspective of capital accumulation? To what extent should we understand this ostensible neglect as a political decision and what kinds of alternative, progressive, politics emerge? And what counter-political imaginaries arise from claims of “abandonment”?

This event is free and open to the public, and registration is recommended. Please email us at ccct@uchicago.edu if you require any accommodations to enable your full participation.

Jonathan Kolstad - University of California-Berkeley

Speaker: TBA Topic: TBA

Brett Green, Washington University at St. Louis Topic: TBA

Tessa Charlesworth, PhD Assistant Professor in Management and Organizations Northwestern University

We are excited to announce the Spring 2024 schedule for the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop. Sessions will be held virtually on alternate Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:20pm Central Time unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday, April 23rd Sex, Gender, & Publishing with Joshua Chambers-Letson, an editor of the Sexual Cultures Series at NYU Press Join us in person @ The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, 5733 S. University Ave.

Papers will be made available in advance via our email list. If you are interested in joining the email list, go to https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/sexuality-gender-wkshp If you have any questions or accommodation requests, please don’t hesitate to contact the workshop co-coordinators, Katrina Myers and Michael Stablein Jr, at gssworkshop@gmail.com.

Join us for a presentation by 

Tianjian Lai, PhD TL1 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine University of Chicago

The Effects of Immigration Status on the Health Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization of Immigrant Families

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The Outcomes Research Workshop (ORW) is focused on clinical outcomes, health services and comparative effectiveness research, patient-centered outcomes research, and medical education, with an emphasis on the application or use of social science research methods. The workshop is highly interactive and provides opportunities for trainees, fellows, and faculty to present early-stage research ideas or preliminary results, to practice conference talks, or to use the time as a research or grant preparation working meeting with colleagues and senior faculty. The ORW originated over 10 years ago as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and continues to be open to the University community. The workshop is sponsored by the University of Chicago Institute for Translational Medicine, CHeSS, and the Departments of Family Medicine, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Surgery. The workshop series is organized by Director of Training Programs and Communications Fahad Sajid, PhD.