Events

Thursday, April 25, 2024  David Rubenstein Forum (1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637) Beginning at 5:00 PM

Welcome Remarks:

Paul Alivisatos, President, University of Chicago and the John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the College.

Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor and Inaugural Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion

Opening Remarks: Centering Allison Davis

Walter E. Massey, former Director of Argonne National Laboratory, former UChicago Vice President for Research, professor and board trustee emeritus, President emeritus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Morehouse College

Keynote and Commentary:

Resurrecting Allison Davis: A Scholar of Race in the time of American Apartheid

Brent Staples, AM’76, PhD’82, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer for The New York Times

Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University

Reception to follow

Friday, April 26, 2024 The Quadrangle Club

Welcome Remarks: Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. 9:00 AM

Graduate Student Panel 9:10-10:15 AM Panelists will be recipients of the Allison Davis Graduate Research Award

Race and the Academy 10:30-11:45 AM Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor and Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity Margaret Beale Spencer, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of Comparative Human Development Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion Gina Samuels, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture

Education and Race 1-2:15 PM Barbara T. Bowman, founder and past President of the Erickson Institute in Early Childhood, Director of Early Childhood for CPS, and long-time friend of Allison Davis Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor and Chair, Sociology at Northwestern, Ph D UChicago Sociology, and prominent expert on urban neighborhoods Onnie Rogers, currently of Northwestern psychology, who will join UChicago as Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development, an expert on cultural stereotypes, identity formation and educational inequities Stephen Raudenbush, Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology and Chair, Committee on Education

Concluding Remarks 2:15 PM

Thursday, April 25, 2024
 David Rubenstein Forum (1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637)
Beginning at 5:00 PM

Welcome Remarks:

Paul Alivisatos, President, University of Chicago and the John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the College.

Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor and Inaugural Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion

Opening Remarks: Centering Allison Davis

Walter E. Massey, former Director of Argonne National Laboratory, former UChicago Vice President for Research, professor and board trustee emeritus, President emeritus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Morehouse College

Keynote and Commentary:

Resurrecting Allison Davis: A Scholar of Race in the time of American Apartheid

Brent Staples, AM’76, PhD’82, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer for The New York Times

Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University

Reception to follow

Friday, April 26, 2024
The Quadrangle Club

Welcome Remarks: Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. 9:00 AM

Graduate Student Panel 9:10-10:15 AM
Panelists will be recipients of the Allison Davis Graduate Research Award

Race and the Academy 10:30-11:45 AM
Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor and Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Margaret Beale Spencer, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of Comparative Human Development
Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion
Gina Samuels, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture

Education and Race 1-2:15 PM
Barbara T. Bowman, founder and past President of the Erickson Institute in Early Childhood, Director of Early Childhood for CPS, and long-time friend of Allison Davis
Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor and Chair, Sociology at Northwestern, Ph D UChicago Sociology, and prominent expert on urban neighborhoods
Onnie Rogers, currently of Northwestern psychology, who will join UChicago as Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development, an expert on cultural stereotypes, identity formation and educational inequities
Stephen Raudenbush, Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology and Chair, Committee on Education

Concluding Remarks 2:15 PM

Signification, Circulation, Emanations April 26 & 27 at the Franke Institute for the Humanities

We are delighted to invite you to Signification, Circulation, Emanations, a two-day conference that reflects and builds on the scholarship of Michael Silverstein (1945–2020), with specific focus on his work on the semiotics of culture in the latter part of his career and the future paths of inquiry it opens.

Register here to attend in-person at the Franke Institute for the Humanities or online via Zoom.

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This event is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Linguistics, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, MAPSS, and the Center for the Study of Communication and Society.

Speaker:

Featuring Dr. Kevin Cokley, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan

Description:

Join the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning for discussion, learning, and community-building at the first annual Spring Pedagogy Symposium. This inaugural event will feature Dr. Kevin Cokley, the University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Cokley is an award-winning psychologist and professor whose research dismantles the myth of intellectual indifference and inferiority among Black and minoritized students. His keynote address and guided lunch discussion will focus on student self-concept, motivation, and the imposter phenomenon. Faculty, instructors, and staff are invited to join us for either or both sessions. Lunch will be provided for the guided lunch discussion.

Kuhn Revisited: Generative Entrenchment and Scientific Change

These workshops will feature our CISSR AFIDEP Scholars who will present their in progress research.

These workshops will feature our CISSR AFIDEP Scholars who will present their in progress research.

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

This two-day conference brings together scholars with an interdisciplinary focus on sound and writing in East Asia from across the academic fields of literature, history, music, media, sound, and performance. The purpose of the event is to facilitate innovative approaches to understanding and articulating intersections of aural and print cultures. While these explorations of sound and text may be situated specifically within the contexts of China, Japan, and Korea, the conference aims to foster scholarly contributions beyond the field of East Asian area studies.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

April 26 (Friday)

1:15-1:30 pm Opening remarks

1:30-3:30 pm Panel 1: Poetics

Discussant: Hoyt Long (EALC, University of Chicago)

• Andrew Campana (Cornell University), “A Lost Tape Recorder of Postwar Japan”
• Siting Jiang (University of Chicago), “Line Breaks and Tian Jian’s Poetry for Recitation”
• Si Nae Park (Harvard University), “Scriptspace, Soundscape, and Poetic Prowess in Yorowŏn yahwagi (1678)”

3:30-4:00 pm Tea Break

4:00-6:30 pm Panel 2: Music

Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs (EALC, University of Chicago)

• YoungEun Kim (University of California, Santa Cruz), “A Study on the Origins of ‘Ear Training’ in the Modernization Period of Korea: Japanese Music Education and Military Training”
• Jacob Reed (University of Chicago), “Chenzi as supplement: Tune-type and Meaning in Kunqu Theory”
• Susanna Sun (University of Chicago), “The Butterfly Lovers: From Yue Opera’s Stage Play to PRC’s first Violin Concerto”
• Ethan Waddell (University of Chicago), “Psychedelic Codes and Close Listening to South Korean Fiction”

SPONSORS

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the University of Chicago Library, and the Arts & Politics in East Asia Workshop.

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEOGRAPHY

Please note that there may be photography taken during this educational event by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies for archival and publicity purposes. By attending this event, participants are confirming their permission to be photographed and the University of Chicago’s right to use, distribute, copy, and edit the recordings in any form of media for non-commercial, educational purposes, and to grant rights to third parties to do any of the foregoing.

Description:

Join Dr. Kevin Cokley and fellow students for a discussion about his experiences and research on imposter phenomenon and learn about ideas that you can use to navigate and challenge this difficulty. Dr. Cokley is an award-winning psychologist and professor whose research dismantles the myth of intellectual indifference and inferiority among Black and minoritized students. His current research focuses on imposter phenomenon and its relationship to mental health and academic outcomes among minoritized students.

Speaker:

Featuring Dr. Kevin Cokley, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

This two-day conference brings together scholars with an interdisciplinary focus on sound and writing in East Asia from across the academic fields of literature, history, music, media, sound, and performance. The purpose of the event is to facilitate innovative approaches to understanding and articulating intersections of aural and print cultures. While these explorations of sound and text may be situated specifically within the contexts of China, Japan, and Korea, the conference aims to foster scholarly contributions beyond the field of East Asian area studies.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

April 27 (Saturday)

9:30-10:00 am Light breakfast on conference site (available to participants and registrants)

10:00-12:00 pm Panel 3: Language

Discussant: Sarah Nooter (Classics, University of Chicago)

• Janet Chen (Princeton University), “Medium or Message? The Politics of Language in Broadcasting in Taiwan, 1955-1975”
• Elvin Meng (University of Chicago), “Rituals of the Wild: The Concept of Orality in the History of Manchu Thought”
• Alex Murphy (Clark University), “Sound-Writing and Acoustics in Kanetsune Kiyosuke’s Structure of Japanese Language and Song”

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch on site (available to participants and registrants)

1:00-3:30 pm Panel 4: Media

Discussant: Thomas Lamarre (CMS & EALC, University of Chicago)

• Linshan Jiang (Duke University), “Voicing Queer Sexuality in Chinese BL Novel and Audio Drama”
• I Jonathan Kief (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Listening across Borders in the Cold War Koreas”
• Jiarui Sun (University of Chicago), “In My Words You Feel: Amateur Script Writing and Platformed Care”
• Hang Wu (University of Chicago), “Broadcasting Infrastructures and Electromagnetic Fatality: Listening to Enemy Radio in Socialist China.”

3:30-4:00 pm Tea Break

4:00-5:00 pm Keynote Speech

Jina E. Kim (University of Oregon), “Sonic Contact Zones”

1227 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637

SPONSORS

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the University of Chicago Library, and the Arts & Politics in East Asia Workshop.

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEOGRAPHY

Please note that there may be photography taken during this educational event by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies for archival and publicity purposes. By attending this event, participants are confirming their permission to be photographed and the University of Chicago’s right to use, distribute, copy, and edit the recordings in any form of media for non-commercial, educational purposes, and to grant rights to third parties to do any of the foregoing.