This Week at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
October 3, 2016
5733 Open House

TODAY, 4:30 - 6:00 pm
CSGS/CSRPC
5733 S University Ave

free and open to the public; 

Join the  Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture for an open house to kick off the 2016-2017 academic year.  

Light fare and drinks will be provided. 

The Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop presents
Molly Cunningham, 
"
Water is Life: Emergency Management of the Body Politic and the Restructuring of Detroit"
 
Thursday, October 6, 4:30 - 6:00 pm
CSRPC, First Floor Seminar Room
5733 S University Ave

free and open to the public

Join us for the first workshop of the Autumn 2016 quarter, curated by Professor Michael Dawson under the theme "Race and Capitalism."  We are pleased to welcome  Molly Cunningham , Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology. 

 
Full workshop schedule here

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The workshop enjoys support from the Council on Advanced Studies (CAS) and the CSRPC at the University of Chicago. 
"Finally Got the News"

Sunday, October 9, 4 pm
Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave

free and open to the public;

South Side Projections continues its Alternative Histories of Labor continues with Finally Got the News, a 1970 film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Northwestern University PhD candidate Annie Sullivan and labor activist Mike Siviwe Elliott will introduce the film and lead a short discussion afterward.

About the Film:   Finally Got the News is an incisive, revelatory portrait of African American autoworkers in Michigan factories, whose grievances had reached a boiling point by 1969. Recombining in independent, militant organizing groups-notably DRUM (the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement) and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers-they attempt to bypass the demands the auto companies, the resentment of their fellow white workers (many of whom also migrated from rural Southern poverty), and the timidity of their ostensible allies in the United Auto Workers. A collaboration between the League and the unabashedly leftist documentary group Newsreel (although it did not end up being a Newsreel film), Finally Got the News articulates and embodies the power of collective action. (Jim Morrison, Stewart Bird, Peter Gessner, René Lichtman, and John Louis Jr., 1970, 57 min., DVD; courtesy of Icarus Films)

About the speakers:  Annie Sullivan is a PhD Candidate in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MA in Film Studies from the University of Iowa. Her dissertation project examines issues of race, mobility, and local media production alongside broader historical processes of urban development and social change in post-industrial Detroit. Mike Siviwe Elliott, a longtime labor and community activist, is Labor Committee Chair of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, member of Black Lives Matter-Chicago, Recording Secretary of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Chicago Chapter, and a leader in the fight for community control of the police, through an city ordinance that will establish an all elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC).

About the Series:   The spread of "right to work" laws and the Fight for $15 movement have brought renewed focus to labor issues. Drawing on the energy of these and other current struggles in the workplace, Alternative Histories of Labor aims to expand on the dominant narrative of labor movements as mostly white and mostly male. These six film screenings and discussions highlight the contributions of women and racial/ethnic minorities to US labor movements.

The series is sponsored by South Side Projections;  Illinois Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois General Assembly; The MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at  The Richard H. Driehaus FoundationSEIU Healthcare Illinois IndianaBlack Cinema HouseContratiempoAguijón Theater; and the  Center for the Study of Race, Politics and CultureReva and David Logan Center for the Arts, and  Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago.

Click here for more information. 
"Justice in the Service of Equality" Christiane Taubira in conversation with Professor Jennifer Wild

Monday, October 10, 6 pm
International House, Assembly Hall
1414 E 59th St

free and open to the public; 

A lecture by, and conversation with, Christiane Taubira, former Minister of Justice of France. Post-lecture discussion will be moderated by Jennifer Wild (Cinema and Media Studies) and Mary Ann Case (Law School). 
 
Christiane Taubira is the founder of the left-wing Guianese party Walwari, and was elected four times to the National Assembly of France (representing French Guiana), where she was the driving force behind the 2001 law that recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as a crime against humanity. In June 2012, she was appointed Justice Minister of France.  In that capacity, she oversaw fundamental penal reforms that prevent recidivism and promote rehabilitation, and introduced a law that both legalized same-sex marriage in France, and allows same-sec couples to adopt children. 


Click here for more information. 
OMSA Heritage Series with Jeff Chang

Monday, October 10, 7 pm
University Church
5655 S University Ave

free and open to the public; 

Join us for OMSA's inaugural Heritage Series event of 2016-17!  Jeff Chang, author of We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation and Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University, leads a discussion on the role of artists and activists in social and cultural change.  

The event will feature performances by a variety of poets and spoken word artists, including 2015-16 APL/CSRPC artist-in-residence Aquil Charlton and students from the University of Chicago Laboratory School. 
 

Click here for more information. 
Slavery and Visual Culture Reading Group Discussion on Simon Gikandi's Slavery and the Culture of Taste

Tuesday, October 11, 4:30 pm
CSRPC
5733 S University Ave

free and open to the public

Please join us for the Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group's first reading group discussion. The aim of our reading group sessions is to discuss texts and/or visual material deemed fundamental for a historical and theoretical reflection on the relationships between slavery and visuality.

The first assigned reading is Simon Gikandi's Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton UP, 2011) and the discussion will be led by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the College. 

About the text:  It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast archives, including portraits, period paintings, personal narratives, and diaries, Simon Gikandi illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how slavery's impurity informed and haunted the rarified customs of the time.

About the author: Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. His many books include Writing in Limbo and Maps of Englishness.

About the working group: The newly created Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture at the University of Chicago has been formed to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research on the visual imagining of slavery and the slave trade as well as on the production and usage of images and material objects by enslaved peoples and slaveholders.

It is organized by CSRPC Faculty Affiliates Larissa Brewer-GarcíaCécile Fromont, and Agnes Lugo-Ortiz.   

This group is sponsored by several units at the University of Chicago: the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Departments of Art History, History, and Romance Languages and Literatures.
 
Click here for more information. 
save the date: 
ArtsPass Exclusive|Hamilton

Thursday, October 20, 7:30*
The PrivateBank Theatre
18 W Monroe St

Tickets only available to UChicago students, accompanying lectures are free and open to the public.

The Tony award winning production of  Hamilton  is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation's first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway, Hamilton is the story of America then, told by America now.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR UCHICAGO STUDENTS: Attend one of the following lectures to be entered to win the chance to purchase one $25 ticket to attend the  Hamilton ArtsPass Exclusive trip on Thursday, October 20, with transportation included.  Only with valid UCID.  For more information on these lectures, visit artspass.uchicago.edu.

Public Lectures:

THU, OCT 13 /  4 PM /  Law School 
w/ Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics,  Martha Nussbaum , and Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Law,  William Baude

 

Professor Nussbaum will be discussing the distinction between envy and ambition, and the idea of dueling. Professor Baude will also pick up on themes of ambition, but talk about its place in the constitutional structure and separation of powers.


SUN, OCT 16 /  4 PM /  Logan Center 
w/ Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor, 
Ken Warren  and Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, 
Alison LaCroix

 

Professor Warren will be discussing the status of the tragic as a mode in American dramatic and literary history, and its connections with politics. Professor LaCroix will focus on the history of the Revolutionary and founding periods, both as represented in "Hamilton" and in terms of subsequent generations' understanding.

 

Reservations will be available starting WED, OCT 5 at NOON.  
Only one ticket per University of Chicago student. Students can only attend one lecture.  

*All students who attend one of the ticketed lectures above will be eligible for a chance to purchase a $25 ticket to  Hamilton. A lottery from those eligible for  Hamilton tickets will take place on Monday, October 17. Selected students will have one day to purchase their $25 ticket (includes transportation) to the Thursday, October 20 production of Hamilton. We have a limited number of subsidized tickets available for students who have demonstrated significant financial need. Please contact  logancenter@uchicago.edu if you would like to explore this option.

This event is brought to you by the ArtsPass ProgramOffice of Multicultural Student Affairs, the Center for Leadership and Involvement, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture.
save the date: 
Zadie Smith on Swing Time with Vu Tran

Wednesday, November 30, 6:30*
DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56 Pl

$30 (price includes book);
Zadie Smith presents her "ambitious, exuberant new novel" Swing Time. She will be joined in conversation by CSRPC Faculty Affiliate Vu Tran (Creative Writing). 

About the book: Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either...

Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them. Moving from North-West London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.

About the author: Zadie Smith was born in Northwest London in 1975. She is the author of White TeethThe Autograph ManOn BeautyChanging My Mind, and NW.

About the interlocutor:  Vu Tran, winner of a Whiting Award recognizing "exceptional talent and promise," teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago. He is the author of  Dragonfish, now out in paperback.

OPPORTUNITIES
Call for Papers, Proposals, and Presentations
UChicago Arts, Science & Culture Graduate Collaboration Grants

The Arts, Science & Culture Initiative supports the Graduate Collaboration Grants to encourage independent trans-disciplinary research between students in the arts and the sciences. Graduate students from areas such as Art History, English, Music, Cinema and Media Studies, Theater and Performance, or Visual Arts are encouraged to pair up with graduate students from Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geophysical Sciences, Math, Physics, Psychology, Anthropology or Social Science areas for joint research projects.

Application deadline:  October 21, 2016.

All proposals must be submitted by email as PDF attachments to jmlemon@uchicago.edu.

Be specific when you describe your promotional offer and remember to focus on the benefits rather than the features. Drive traffic to your site by providing a "teaser" to your readers, with a link to your site for the full details.

For more information, click here
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Call for Proposals | 
Center for Municipal Finance Research Grants

The Center for Municipal Finance at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy announces a Request for Proposals (RFP). The Center will fund academic research projects that bring innovative ideas and approaches to state and local government finance. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: state and local taxation, public sector pensions, the municipal bond market, infrastructure, and the politics of public finance. Preference will be given to projects with the potential to influence public policy.

Applicants should submit the following: (a) one- to two-page proposal summarizing the project idea, methodology, outputs, and impact;  (b) budget; and (c) current C.V. of the principal investigator(s). Review of applications will begin on October 30, 2016. Finalists will be asked for an expanded proposal of not more than 5 pages.

For more information, click 
here
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Call for Proposals | 
Open Engagement 2017 - JUSTICE

Open Engagement (OE) is the largest artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around, and creating a site of care for, the field of socially engaged art. Founded in 2007, OE has evolved into an unparalleled hub for practitioners and audiences to assemble. OE employs an inclusive open call model that supports emerging and established artists and organizers, highlights the voices of students alongside professionals, and collaborates closely with national institutions to further the networks of support for socially engaged art.

We are currently accepting proposals for Open Engagement 2017'JUSTICE. Local, national, and international artists, activists, academics, cultural producers, administrators, curators, educators, writers, thinkers, doers, and makers of all ages with a vested interest in art and social practice are encouraged to propose programming for OE 2017 through our free call. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2016.

For more information, click  here
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PLATO Conference 
Social Justice and 
Pre-College Philosophy: Where Do We Go From Here?

The Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) is currently accepting proposals for their biennial conference. The two-day conference, June 23-24th, is centered on "Social Justice and Pre-College Philosophy: Where Do We Go From Here?" 

The featured speaker is  Dave Stovall, professor of education policy studies and African-American studies at University of Illinois at Chicago. His talk is titled, "Resisting the Racial Contract in 'School': Critical Race Theory, Community Resistance, and the Future of Education".

Conference sessions will take the form of hands-on workshops, papers, presentations and poster sessions.

All proposals must be submitted by email attachment no later than  November 1, 2016 to  info@plato-apa.org.

For more information, click  here or contact   Bart Schultz.

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Call for Applications | 
2017 Carter Manny Award

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2017 Carter Manny Award, the foundation's annual award for Ph.D. students working on dissertation topics in architecture. Applications are due November 15, 2016.

Established in 1996, the Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects have architecture as their primary focus and the potential to shape architectural discourse. 

Two Carter Manny Awards are given each year, one for dissertation writing and one for dissertation research. Doctoral candidates must be officially enrolled in schools in the U.S. and Canada and nominated by their department in order to apply.

For more information, click here
Fellowship, Job, Internship + Volunteer Opportunities
UChicago Office of Civic Engagement Student Advisory Committee
 
The University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement (OCE) is seeking a dynamic and diverse cohort of undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in gaining increased knowledge and expertise regarding the University's goals for a wide range of civic engagement initiatives across the community, city, and nation. 

Any currently registered student at the  University of Chicago is eligible to join the OCE Student Advisory Committee.

The Committee will be composed of 10-12 students from across the University of  Chicago.

To apply for a position on the 2016-2017 Student Advisory Committee, please submit the following documents to
* Resume
* Brief statement of interest explaining why you would like to serve on the committee

Application deadline is October 9, 2016
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2017 UChicago Civic Leadership Academy 

The Civic Leadership Academy is designed for high-performing nonprofit and government leaders who seek rigorous leadership development. The six-month program incorporates courses on leadership fundamentals taught by UChicago faculty with practical application through a capstone project and global practicum in Delhi, India.

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2017 Career Enhancement Fellowship for 
Junior Faculty

This pre-tenure award program seeks to increase the presence of minority junior faculty members and other faculty members committed to
eradicating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and
humanities. Junior faculty entering their third year are eligible to apply for this Fellowship, which includes a sabbatical grant, a
research/travel/publication stipend, and participation in an annual retreat. The Fellow¹s institution is expected to supplement the award as explained in the attached program documents. The Fellowship application
deadline is October 28, 2016.

Our Fellows are outstanding scholars who have done important creative and intellectual work during their Fellowships and beyond. In just 15 years, close to 200 Fellows have attained tenure and made significant contributions to the academy.

For more information, click here
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The Human Rights Internship Program is an opportunity for University of Chicago students to explore human rights in practice, around the world. The Pozen Center awards $5,000 grants to support student internships focused on regional or thematic human rights topics in non-governmental organizations, government agencies, and international institutions.
 
This year-long program includes cohort training sessions, peer mentorship, a human rights course, written reports, and a symposium presentation.
 
Second and third year College students and all graduate students who will be on campus in 2017-18 are eligible to apply.

Application Deadline: November 6, 2016

Information Session: 
Monday, October 10 | 5-6 PM
Social Sciences 122

For more information, click here.
For more opportunities - jobs, internships, fellowships, grants, CFPs, and the like - of interest to current and recent students working in the area(s) of race and ethnic studies, and activism, please visit Sarah's Tuohey's Blog - a resource page created by our Student Affairs Administrator.
EVENTS AROUND TOWN
on view thru Oct. 3 |
Larry Achiampong: 
Open Season

Logan Center Gallery
915 East 60th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
 
Working across sound, video, performance, and installation, London-based artist Larry Achiampong (b.1984) explores shifting notions of identity and belonging in our post-digital age.  OPEN SEASON is the artist's first US solo exhibition and features works from the past three years. The exhibition premieres a new series of blackboard drawings titled # OPENSEASON as well as the newly commissioned video piece Sunday's Best. 

For more information, click here
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now - Oct. 15 |
Carroll Gardens at 16th Street Theater

16th Street Theater
6420 16th Street
Berwyn, Illinois 60402
 
Davis and Robby were BFFs in '93, but that last F is a long, long time... In 2013 Davis has traded his broke, small-town past for the hipster lifestyle of a Brooklyn artist. But when Robby buses it across the country and crashes his childhood homie's 30th birthday, conflicts over race, class, culture and foodies ignite making this one awkward dinner party. Davis must decide where his loyalties lie, but holding onto the past may cost Davis his future.

For more information, click here. 
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Mon., Oct. 3 |
How do we ensure that the Obama Library benefits residents of the 
South Side?

Monday, October 3, 6:00 pm
Mandel Hall, McCormick Tribune Lounge
1131 East 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Naomi Davis Keynote & Panel Discussion & Dinner.  
New and returning students and neighbors can hear about the singular role students have in working for this justice. Hear from Naomi Davis, lawyer turned founder of Blacks in Green™ and a leader of the Bronzeville Regional Collective. 

Also hear from:
Haroon Garel - Southside Together Organizing for Power
Rev. Julie Less - University Church

For more information, click  here.
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Mon., Oct. 3 |
Reviving a City: How Artists & Planners are Working Together in Chester, PA and Gary, IN

Monday, October 3, 6:30 pm
Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 South Stony Island Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60649

Artists are increasingly turning their creativity to directly solving community issues as part of their practice. Well-known artists like Chicago-based Theaster Gates and Jan Tichy, for example, have generated projects in Gary, Indiana to spur economic development. Similarly, in Chester, Pennsylvania, artists are creating work to do the same.

These projects raise questions about how artists work with city planners and other unlikely partners and how the various approaches serves existing populations in these communities.

Please join us for a conversation on these projects in Gary and Chester and how artists and city planners are working together to solve economic issues in communities that have experienced disinvestment.

PANELISTS:
Frances Whitehead, artist, Gary
Walter Jones, artist, Gary
Devon Walls, artist, Chester
Joseph Van Dyk, Director of Redevelopment, Gary
Peter Rykard, Assistant City Planner, Chester
Moderated by Tracie D. Hall

For more information, click  here.
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Wed., Oct. 5 |

Wed., Oct. 5, 4:30 pm 
Social Sciences Research Building
John Hope Franklin Room (224)
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Please join us for the first Human Rights Workshop of Fall Quarter:

Mark P. Bradley, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of International History 
+
Tara Zara, Professor of East European History 

will present their recently published books.

Professor Bradley will talk about
Discussant: James Sparrow, Associate Professor of U.S. History

Professor Zara will talk about
Discussant: Jon Levy, Professor of U.S. History 

For more information, click here
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Thu., Oct. 6 |
Board Leadership + Progressive Conversations

Thursday, October 6, 4:30 pm
Community Programs Accelerator
5225 South Cottage Grove Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637

We are bringing together all the alumni of the NonProfit Board Leadership Certificate Program, Progressive Conversations organizations, and friends of the Civic Knowledge Project.
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Thu., Oct. 6 |
What is the Latino Vote? 

Thursday., October 6, 6:00 pm 
Quadrangle Club
1155 East 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Today, leaders of both major political parties are concerned with securing the current and future support of the more than 27 million eligible Hispanic voters in the U.S.-the coveted "Latino Vote." Yet, Latinos live in different parts of the U.S., identify with multiple racial categories, and/or have past and present family members who come from various regions in Latin America and beyond.

Given this diversity, is it possible to talk about Latino voters without miscasting them as a monolithic community?  And given our current political climate, who benefits and who loses from grouping this diverse population into a single category?

Participating in this panel discussion are: G. Cristina Mora, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California Berkeley; Geraldo L. Cadava, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University; J esús "Chuy" García, Cook County Commissioner, 7th District.

We invite you to come together with our distinguished panel to consider these questions and more in lively and relevant conversation on the "Latino" vote.

Leading this discussion is Emilio Kourí, Professor of History, University of Chicago.

For more information, click here 
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