This Week at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
January 23, 2017
CSRPC Winter 2017 Newsletter -  now available! 

read the pdf online now, and the archive here
Harlem Renaissance Celebration: "Blues for an Alabama Sky" at Court Theatre 


In the midst of the Great Depression, the creative spirit of New York's Harlem Renaissance struggles with harsher realities. Angel and Guy, emerging artists with grand dreams, live next door to the more serious and political Delia, a social worker with the goal to open a community family planning clinic. Each must face their own hardships head on, but always with hope for a better life close at hand. They search for a way to keep their dreams of love, career, and service alive in times of economic despair, and they learn that the Great Depression can't destroy the source of their creative spirit.

Playwright Pearl Cleage's striking story encounters very modern problems in a fantastically lively 1920s Harlem. Court Resident Artist and Director Ron OJ Parson will dive into this world to illuminate the characters' intersecting lives and experiences on stage.  Blues for an Alabama Sky will serve as the centerpiece for a Chicago celebration of the music, art, language, and impact of the Harlem Renaissance. 

Click here for a guide to Harlem Renaissance Celebration events.

The Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop / Winter 2017 Schedule: 
"
Race, Capitalism, and Ecology"
 

The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) is pleased to host the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop at 5733 South University Avenue.  Meeting dates are listed below, taking place from 4:30 pm - 6:00 p.m., in the first floor Seminar Room, unless otherwise noted. 

This quarter's theme is "Race, Capitalism, and Ecology," and is curated by CSRPC Faculty Affiliates Larissa Brewer-García (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Christopher Taylor (Department of English).  Recent scholarship across a variety of disciplines has highlighted the entwinement of racial capitalism and ecological thought and (mal)practice. Scholars have examined race as a vector for the slow violence of ecological devastation; they have also considered how histories of racial capitalism complicate current conceptualizations of the Anthropocene, where the unity of the "Anthropos" is belied by the differential and racial distribution of environmental precarity. Others have considered the political resistances of racialized populations to ecological degradation, thinking green politics-historical or contemporary-in its articulations with (to name a few) indigenous, anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, or feminist politics. This workshop series will address similar entanglements of racial capitalism, ecological degradation, and ecological practice from particular disciplinary foci and from situated historical/geographical vantages.

Wednesday, January 25th
"Impoverished Frameworks and the Illegibility of Black Feminist 'Eco-Ethics'"
Chelsea M. Frazier (doctoral candidate, Sociology, Northwestern University)

Wednesday, February 8th
"Crossing the Pacific: Indigenous Mobility, Transpacific, Migration, and the Color of Un/Free Labor"
Minyong Lee (doctoral candidate, History, University of Chicago; CSRPC Dissertation Fellow)
 
Thursday, February 23rd
"Black and Indian Ethno-Racial Formation in the British West Indies"
Anjanette M. Chan Tack (doctoral candidate, Sociology, University of Chicago)
 
Monday, March 13th
"Encumbered Citizenship, Imminent Criminality: The Racial Constitution of Stand Your Ground"
Marcus Lee (doctoral student, Political Science, University of Chicago)

The workshop meets 4 - 5 times a quarter. Each meeting lasts one hour and twenty minutes. Typically, a paper will be circulated one week prior to meeting. At the beginning of the meeting, the author of the paper will present their work for about 20 minutes. For the remaining time, we hold an open discussion about the paper and the presentation.

You can stay up to date on the workshop schedule and presenters by joining the listserv, or contacting the workshop coordinator Alfredo Gonzalez at algonzalez@uchicago.edu
 
Click here for more information.

The workshop enjoys support from the  Council on Advanced Studies ( CAS) and the CSRPC at the University of Chicago. 
Vanessa C. Tyson on "Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the U.S. House of Representatives"  

Thursday, January 26, 4:30 pm
CSRPC First Floor Seminar Room
5733 South University Avenue
free and open to the public

The Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop presents Vanessa C. Tyson (PhD'08) on Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the U.S. House of Representatives.

About the book:  Members of Congress from racial minority groups often find themselves in a unique predicament. For one thing, they tend to represent constituencies that are more economically disadvantaged than those of their white colleagues. Moreover, they themselves experience marginalization during the process of policy formulation on Capitol Hill. 

In Twists of Fate, Vanessa C. Tyson illuminates the experiences of racial minority members of the House of Representatives as they endeavor to provide much-needed resources for their districts. In doing so, she devises a framework for understanding the federal legislative behavior of House members representing marginalized communities. She points to the unique ways in which they conceive of political influence as well as the strategies they have adopted for success. Black, Hispanic, and Asian Pacific American Caucuses, among other minority groups, have built cross-racial coalitions that reflect their linked political fate. This strategy differs considerably from competitive approaches often espoused at the local level and from the more atomized interactions of representatives at the federal level of the policy process. 

Tyson draws on years of personal experience observing and interacting with members of the House of Representatives in session, in their home districts, at functions sponsored by racial minority caucuses, and at White House events to illustrate her argument. Despite variation of experience and ideology within and amongst racial minority groups, she shows that representatives of minority coalitions have repeatedly and successfully worked together as they advocate for equality and social justice. She also points to a willingness among these coalitions to champion a non-discrimination agenda that extends beyond "traditional" issues of race and ethnicity to issues of class, gender and orientation. Twists of Fate provides a compelling model for understanding how diverse groups can work together to forge hopeful political futures.

About the author:   A social scientist by training, Vanessa Tyson currently teaches in the Department of Politics at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. Her courses include B lack Americans and the Political System Women and Public Policy Introduction to Public Policy Research Design; and Environmental Policy in the US .
The "New Dawn" Podcast: 
Black History: Fighting Selective Amnesia About Race and Capitalism


New Dawn Podcast
Episode Three: "Black History: Fighting Selective Amnesia About Race and Capitalism"

We are pleased to introduce the "New Dawn" podcast, an initiative of the Race and Capitalism project.  This project is led by CSRPC Faculty Director and Professor of Political Science Michael C. Dawson.  The project team also includes Megan Ming Francis (University of Washington), Tianna Paschel (University of California), and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Princeton University).  

In Episode Three,  Michael Dawson discusses the historical struggles between advancing social movements and funding activism with Assistant Professor Megan Ming Francis.

Listen now, and subscribe to catch future episodes!
save the date / CRES Talks presents:
A Boal Workshop with Teresa Veramendi  

Photography by Sean O'Brien
Saturday, February 4, 10:00 am
CSRPC Community Room
5733 South University Avenue
free and open to the public; rsvp

Join us in an open space of dialogue and action aimed at devising tangible ways to fight the oppressive forces in our communities. Using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, we will engage in embodied explorations of current events and brainstorm new solutions. R elating and resonating with one another's perceptions, and sharing the wisdom of our communal experience, we will rehearse our collective liberation.

While this is a creative and physical practice, no experience is necessary. All are welcome to participate and observe in the ways that best support their process. Augusto Boal - Brazilian theatrical director, theorist, writer, and teacher - created the practice of Theatre of the Oppressed as a democratic, activist, community-oriented social theatre practice.
 
About the Facilitator:
A graduate of the Tisch Drama Department at New York University, Teresa Veramendi also received her Master's degree in Performance Studies from NYU while she performed and wrote theatre Off-Off- Broadway. Since co-founding Theatre of the Oppressed Chicago in 2012, Veramendi has facilitated over one hundred Theatre of the Oppressed workshops on diverse topics such as class, education, race, electoral politics, and career transitions, in various settings and cities around the country. Veramendi has established herself as a theatre maker, slam poet, teaching artist, community facilitator, and administrator in higher education.

Organized by Danielle Roper (2016-17 Provosts Postdoctoral Scholar) as part of the Winter 2017 course "Theatre and Performance in Latin America."  

 
For more information, click here
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Care@Chicago presents
Romi Crawford, "Radical Relations! Memory, Objects and the Generation of the Political"
Monday, February 6, 4:30 pm
CSGS / CSRPC Community Room
5733 South University Avenue
free and open to the public; rsvp

On February 6, an exhibit exploring black liberation politics on the South Side of Chicago from 1967-2017 will open at The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), with support from the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC). Curated by Romi Crawford (PhD'11), Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute, this exhibit will display images of black artists, poets, writers, educators, and political organizers in everyday life, as well as display their personal communicative and decorative materials that have now become memorabilia, traces of a generation's cultivation of radical care, a will to make social change felt at the level of their communal, familial, and intimate relations.

This event is part of Care@Chicago, a project at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality designed to examine and practice forms of self-care and ask what constitutes repair and relief in states and times of trauma. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.
 
For more information, click here
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Su'ad Abdul Khabeer on Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States


Wednesday, February 8, 6:00 pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 South Woodlawn Avenue
free and open to the public; rsvp

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer (Purdue) discusses Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States with Alireza Doostdar (Divinity School).

About the book: This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, "Muslim Cool." "Muslim Cool" is a way of being an American Muslim-displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, "Muslim Cool" is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. 

Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic U.S. Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between "Black" and "Muslim." Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are "foreign" to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested-critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.

About the author: Su'ad Abdul Khabeer is a scholar-artist-activist who uses anthropology and performance to explore the intersections of race and popular culture. Su'ad is currently an assistant professor of anthropology and African American studies at Purdue University. She received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Princeton University and is a graduate from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and completed the Islamic Studies diploma program of the Institute at Abu Nour University (Damascus). 


About the interlocutor: Alireza Doostdar teaches courses on social theory, modern Islam, and Iranian politics and history. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. His first book, forthcoming with Princeton University Press, is titled "The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny." 


For more information, click  here
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RELATED EVENT: 
Fri, Jan 27, 6:00 pm
"Muslim Cool": The Book Party
Arts Incubator
301 East Garfield Boulevard
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Arts Pass Exclusive: A Wonder in My Soul at Victory Gardens Theater  

Thursday, February 16, 7:30 pm
Victory Gardens Theater
2433 North Lincoln Avenue

Longtime hair salon owners Bell and Birdie grapple with the question of whether to remain in their beloved South Side neighborhood or relocate under the pressures of gentrification and crime. Told through music, poetry, and dance, A Wonder in My Soul looks at one neighborhood's evolution through the eyes of two lifelong best friends. From the artistic team that brought you The House That Will Not Stand, The Gospel of Lovingkindness, and An Issue of Blood, director Chay Yew and playwright Marcus Gardley now explore a story of beauty, friendship, and Chicago history.

Post-show discussion facilitated by Julius L. Jones (doctoral student, Department of History).

Transportation provided from campus to theater, and back.  

Presented in partnership with the UChicago Arts Pass program and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture,. 

For more information, click  here
CSRPC AFFILIATE EVENTS

Saturday, January 28, 11:00 am
School of Social Service Administration, Room E-1
969 East 60th Street
If you are interested in attending, please complete this confidential please complete this confidential survey so we know how many attorneys are needed onsite!

Interested in learning more about how to protect yourself or be an active ally?   Come to a Know Your Rights workshop,
presented by the National Immigrant Justice Center.  
Free onsite legal immigration screenings will be available for undocumented students and their families.
OPPORTUNITIES
Call for Papers, Proposals, and Presentations

Call for Submissions | 
Princeton Journal of East Asian Studies (PJEAS)

PJEAS is a student academic journal with the official support of the East Asian Studies Program at Princeton University. We publish works of scholarship written by both undergraduate and graduate students from around the world on political, economic, social and cultural issues pertaining to the East Asian region (China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, and/or Taiwan). PJEAS aims to foster both an intellectually rigorous student discourse and an atmosphere of mutual enhancement of knowledge and development of leadership in these fields.
 
We are currently inviting all interested students to submit their academic work for publication in our  Spring 2017 Issue, scheduled to be published in May 2017. Upon submission, your paper will be reviewed under a double-blind process. A member of our operational staff will contact you within a short period of time to confirm that your paper is under review.
 
Please refer to  the submission guidelines, and fill out the google submissions form at  http://bit.ly/1lNIi0G by February 24 (Friday),11:59 PM EST, 2017. If you have any general inquiries, please email Christine Jeong ( cwjeong@princeton.edu) and Isabel Hsu ( ihsu@princeton.edu). Thank you for your time and consideration, and we hope to hear from you soon!
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Call for Papers | 
8th Annual La Academia del Pueblo Latino/a and Latin American Studies 
Research Conference

The 8th Annual La Academia del Pueblo Latino/a and Latin American Studies Research Conference seeks to deliberately establish connections between the academy, engaged citizens, and urban communities. This year's theme is "Charting New Futures: Rethinking Race and Gender in LatinX USA and Beyond," and invites participants to envision innovative and nuanced ways of examining LatinX identities within the cultural framework of the United States and the global community, both now and for future generations.

The conference committee invites submissions of abstracts for poster boards and panel presentations from junior and senior faculty members, undergraduate and graduate students, artists, filmmakers and community members conducting Latino/a and Latin American research.

We would like scholars to consider the following questions:
1) What are the ways we chart, develop, and maintain an inclusive and equitable future?
2) What conversations, coalitions, and actions are needed at the local and global levels to create a more united and empowered community?

Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to go.wayne.edu/la-academia and must by submitted by  February 13, 2017 for consideration. Applicants will hear back by February 27, 2017. 
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Call for Artists | 
64th Street Viaduct Project

The William G. Hill Center for the Arts, in partnership with the University of Chicago's Office of Civic Engagement, and the South East Chicago Commission, invites artists to submit proposals to transform the underpasses on South Dorchester Avenue at East 64th Street, in the Woodlawn neighborhood, through artistic activation. A total of two artists will be chosen for final project implementation, with a $2000 stipend awarded to each artist to cover material costs. 

Location of proposed site
  • North and South sides of the Metra/CN viaduct on East 64th Street near South Dorchester Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood 
Project Timeline Information: 
  • Application Open: January 2017 (TBD)
  • Application Deadline: February 6, 2017
  • Chosen artists meeting with partners: March 6, 2017
  • Community Conversation at the Woodlawn Summit: March 18, 2017
  • Installation Start: early May 2017 (depending on last day of snowfall)
  • Projected completion: August 2017 
Project partners are seeking artist candidates with the following:
  1. Public art installation experience (i.e. lighting installations, murals, street art, performance) 
  2. Working geography: South Side of Chicago
  3. Teaching artist experience - ability to lead instruction for groups of people
  4. Community driven or oriented artist practice 
TO APPLY:
1.  Fill out the online submission form: https://goo.gl/forms/cwNB872YMSiUP3Fc2
Images and short narratives of previous work must be sent by email separately to Nika Levando ( nlevando@uchicago.edu ) in the following format:
  • Narratives should be in Microsoft Word or PDF format
  • Narrative titled: Last Name_First Name_64 th Street Viaduct Proposal
  • 3-5 Images maximum. Images must be no more than 1000 pixels and no more than 500kb;
  • Image title: Last Name_First Name_64th Street Viaduct Proposal
  • Email Subject Line should be the same as Image Title - Last Name_First Name_64th Street Viaduct Proposal
Questions can be directed to Nika Levando at   nlevando@uchicago.edu
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Call for Papers | 
Engendering Change 2017: 
INSTITUTIONALITY AND PRECARITY

Graduate Student Conference
Northwestern University - Evanston, IL

Engendering Change is an annual Graduate Student Conference focused on issues of gender and sexuality. This year's theme is Institutionality and Precarity. We welcome papers that address the institutionality of gender, sexuality, and race in relationship to structures including but not limited to the university; charity and activist organizations; capitalism and debt; marriage; healthcare; prisons; media, art, and popular culture; schools; and local, state, and federal law-making.
 
Feminist and queer movements and scholarship have been and continue to be self-reflective about their entanglements with cultural, state, and academic institutions. At the same time, these movements are in a continuous process of institutionalization themselves. This process inspires us to look to institutions as sources of stability and as a refuge from precarity. However, these same institutions are increasingly implicated in the production and reproduction of economic and social instability, political upheaval, and the uneven distribution of resources. Especially in the aftermath of the 2016 election, the relationship between institutionalization and precarity raises a number of urgent questions:
  • How do institutions produce precarity in relation to race, gender, class, socio-economic status, sexuality, dis/ability, ethnicity, and citizenship? 
  • In what ways do social movements and related scholarship work with or against institutions? In what ways do these structures work to heighten or diminish precarity? 
  • How are these interactions shaped by their contemporary or contemporaneous moments? What methodologies and practices are available to us to interrogate current conditions? 
Our keynote speaker will be Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist, a prayer poet priestess and has a PhD in English, African and African-American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University. Alexis was the first scholar to research the Audre Lorde Papers at Spelman College, the June Jordan Papers at Harvard University, and the Lucille Clifton Papers at Emory University, and she is currently on tour with her interactive oracle project "The Lorde Concordance," a series of ritual mobilizing the life and work of Audre Lorde as a dynamic sacred text.

The Organizing Committee for Engendering Change 2017 issues a Call for Papers. Academic, Activist, and Creative projects could address one of the following topics, or any other aspects of institutionality and precarity: 
  • Community activism and practices 
  • Racialized patriarchal institutions 
  • Economics and debt 
  • Power and agency 
  • Access to employment and opportunities 
  • Art, media, literature, and performance 
  • Neoliberal theory and/or pedagogy 
  • The disappearance of feminist, queer, black, and people of color spaces 
  • Queer feminist historiography / social history 
  • Gender and sexual identities and practices 
  • The university and its creation of departments/programs/majors 
  • Teaching institutionality/precarity in the classroom 
  • Teaching precarious topics / identities 
  • Legacies of slavery and slave labor 
  • Relationships with bodies of authority (local / state / federal governments, police departments, etc.) 
  • Dis/ability 
  • Temporality 
  • Intimacy and relationality 
  • Language and rhetoric 
Please email paper abstracts to engenderingchange2017@gmail.com by February 1, 2017 for consideration. Applicants will hear back by early March. 
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Call for Papers | 
BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED, 
A Collection of Essays, Poems, 
and Personal Narratives

Black lives have always mattered. While the Black Lives Matter movement has reminded the nation of the persistent reality of contemporary discrimination that black lives also matter - that black men and women should be treated with equal dignity in every quarter of American life, including by law enforcement - black lives have always mattered because all lives matter.

It is in this spirit that 2Leaf Press is pleased to announce an open submission call for its forthcoming anthology, BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED, A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Personal Narratives, edited by Abiodun Oyewole, a founding member of the Last Poets and author of BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF LIFE (2leaf Press, 2014). Publication date is April 15, 2017 . The purpose of this anthology is to articulate how racism continues to constrain the possibilities, and the very humanity of, African Americans. Editor Oyewole will deftly wield various modes of expression to give a polyphonic voice to both the "small" daily slights experienced by black people and the persistent, pervasive life-threatening and life-taking acts that have existed for generations that have dominated news reports in recent years, and have given rise to new social justice movements. Oyewole is open to critically written essays (that are readable to the general public), personal narratives (that share personal experiences) and poetry (that is extremely well-written and are of the highest caliber). This collection is not intended as an easy read - how could it be? - but it is an urgent one.

Deadline: February 1, 2017.  Click here for more information.  
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Fellowship, Job, Internship + Volunteer Opportunities

CSRPC Teaching Opportunities

CSRPC Graduate Lectureships 2017-18
Deadline: Monday, February 27, 2017

The College and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture are calling for applications by advanced graduate students to teach one undergraduate course of their own design on topics related to race and ethnic studies. Courses in any related topic or thematic may be proposed. The Center is especially interested in courses that posit race and processes of racialization in comparative and transnational frameworks; highlight the intersection of race and ethnicity with other identities (gender, class, sexuality and nationality); and/or interrogate social and identity cleavages within racialized communities.
Advanced graduate students (Ph.D. candidates with at least one chapter of the dissertation written) in any discipline at the University of Chicago are encouraged to apply. The stipend is $5,000/6000 (depending on graduate student status) and is available for one quarter only. Up to six Graduate Lectureships will be awarded. Students applying to teach in other departments may not teach the same course for CSRPC during that academic year.

The online application form can be filled out and submitted here.  

CSRPC BA Preceptorship 2017-18
Deadline: Monday, April 3, 2017

The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, which coordinates the major/minor in Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), invites applicants for a yearlong preceptorship position during the 2017-18 academic year. The preceptor will work closely with about 8 to 12 fourth-year students enrolled in the CRES major along with some rising third-years during Spring Quarter. The preceptor will be responsible for guiding students in preparation of a bachelor's thesis. In addition, preceptors will assist undergraduates earlier in their program, providing thesis advice and program support. Current salary is $7,500 for three quarters.

Please see more detailed information and the application form by clicking here.

Please see list of CRES Preceptor duties by clicking here.  
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Graham School Noncredit 
Teaching Opportunities

The University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies seeks instructors to teach liberal arts noncredit courses to adult students. We are looking for course proposals. We offer courses in:
 
Humanities
Arts, Cinema and Media Studies, Languages, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies
 
Social Sciences
Anthropology, Chicago, History and Politics
 
Biological and Physical Sciences

What should be submitted with the course proposal?
  • CV and 40-word bio.
  • 100-word course description, written in clear, concise prose free of academic or technical jargon.
  • Syllabus including course objective, weekly requirements, and a reading list.
  • (2) Letters of recommendation attesting to your mastery of the subject matter and your ability in the classroom. These should be submitted electronically.
  • Schedule including preferences for days, times, and terms.
The deadline for 2017-2018 course proposals is Monday, February 6, 2017 Autumn (September-November); Winter (January-March); Spring (March-May); and Summer (June-August) course proposals will all be considered at that time. Course proposals may be submitted on an ongoing basis after February 6. Course materials and recommendations should be submitted electronically to Pamela Wickliffe, program coordinator, at pwicklif@uchicago.edu .
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Call for Applications | 
2017 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute

The  APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) is an annual, intensive five-week program held at Duke University. It is designed to introduce to the world of doctoral study in political science those undergraduate students from under-represented racial and ethnic groups or those interested in broadening participation in political science and pursuing scholarship on issues affecting under-represented groups. Participants in the RBSI are drawn from a competitive national applicant pool. 

Deadline extended to January 27, 2017.  

Questions can be directed to Annalisa Dias-Mandoly at adiasmandoly@apsanet.org.

For more information, visit apsanet.org/rbsi-apply.
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Call for Applications | 
University of California Riverside Greater Mexico and U.S. Latinx Perspectives

The University of California at Riverside (UCR) is implementing a major expansion of our faculty and investing in state-of-the-art research facilities to support their work. This expansion will build critical mass in 34 vital and emerging fields of scholarship, foster truly cross-disciplinary work, and further diversify the faculty at one of America's most diverse research universities. We encourage applications from scholars committed to excellence and seeking to help define the research university for the next generation. 

Faculty recruited in the Greater Mexico/U.S. Latinx cluster will join an active and vibrant community of scholars at the University of California Riverside. Drawing on Americo Paredes' term, "Greater Mexico," we are interested in scholars whose work attends to Mexico, Central America, and US areas with significant populations of people from this region. We are seeking applicants to fill four full-time tenure-track and tenured positions at both the assistant and associate/full professor levels. We are seeking scholars with expertise in the areas highlighted below. The placement of each successful candidate may be in any of the departments in College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS), and/or in the Graduate School of Education, School of Public Policy, and School of Medicine, depending on the qualifications and preferences of the candidate and of the host departments/schools. 

Junior applicants will submit applications through UCR's on-line application portal at: 
https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00693. Junior applications must include a two-page cover letter that includes a research statement, an updated curriculum vitae, a statement addressing contributions to or potential for contributions to academic diversity, a minimum of one writing sample or article reprint (additional writing samples may be requested later), evidence of teaching excellence, a sample of recent teaching evaluations, if available, and three letters of recommendation. Junior applicants must be ABD or have met the requirements for the PhD by time of appointment, July 1, 2017. (candidates within the Performing and Creative Arts may possess an MFA or MA and extensive years of experience in the field). 

Senior applicants will submit applications through UCR's on-line application portal at: 
https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00694. Senior applications must include a two-page cover letter that includes a research statement, an updated curriculum vitae, a statement addressing contributions to or potential for contributions to academic diversity, a minimum of one writing sample or article reprint (additional writing samples may be requested later), evidence of teaching excellence, a sample of recent teaching evaluations, if available, and the names and contact information for three references.  Senior applicants must possess a PhD or MD (candidates within the Performing and Creative Arts may possess an MFA or MA and extensive years of experience in the field). 

Review of applications will begin January 30, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled. To ensure full consideration, applications and supporting materials must be received by
January 30. Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. 
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National Center for Faculty 
Development and Diversity

The University has purchased an institutional membership to the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. The membership provides faculty, postdocs, and graduate students with access to hundreds of resources designed to support their success in their academic careers. Anyone with a university email address is eligible for membership. To register, simply visit the website at the following link and choose "Institutional Sub-Account" as your membership type:  https://facultydiversity.site-ym.com/general/pick_username.asp
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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 Feb. 26 |
Opening Reception: "Chicago on My Mind" 

Arts Incubator Gallery
301 East Garfield Boulevard

Arts + Public Life's inaugural Resident Curatorial Collective presents Chicago On My Mind, an exhibition which shares a story of many Chicagos. Expanding on the intended curatorial vision of the 1969 exhibition, Harlem on My Mind, presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chicago on My Mind explores cultural values driven by Chicago-based social and civic-minded collection practices. 

This exhibition takes form through a collaborative spirit between Curatorial Collective residents La Keisha Leek and Sadie Wood, and ten private collectors who are practicing artists, curators, cultural producers, educators, and founders of independently run arts organizations. Each participant, having stakes in the Chicago arts community, is treated as co-curator throughout the selection process of works featured in the exhibition. Chicago on My Mind creates a documented history and contemporary narrative that links to feminist and civil rights movements, the erasure of black masculinity through the prison industrial complex, immigrant rights, displacement, hope, and resilience. 

A key focal point to the practices of Leek and Woods is to further the reach of the local. Curation, as a point of departure, inserts the artist and social understandings of the city into a larger discourse of the intersections of art and politics. Chicago on My Mind features select works from the collections of Janice Bond, Dwamina K. Drew, Lou Mallozzi, Rob McKay, Cesáreo Moreno, Sabina Ott, Edra Soto, Tricia Van Eck, Raub Welch, and Eric Williams. Amongst a group ranging from emerging to established artists featured in the exhibition are Hebru Brantley, Shani Crowe, Stephen Flemister, Lamont Hamilton, Dayo Laoye, Harold Mendez, Melissa Potter, and Kara Walker.

Through this new residency program, Arts + Public Life provides one Curatorial Collective the necessary space and resources to realize innovative projects through the planning and execution of exhibitions at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park. 

For more information, please click here
Tuesdays (Wtr 2017)|
Nurturing Each Other, Healing Ourselves - 
a psychotherapy group for 
women  of color

Tuesdays (starting Jan 10) from 3.30-5pm
 
The group will provide a safe space for undergrauduate and graduate students to connect and explore experiences related to being women of color.  Self-compassion and themes from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy will be integrated to promote growth and healing among participants.  

Faciliated by Adia Gooden, Ph.D.

Please contact agooden@uchicago.edu for more information.  
Wednesdays (Wtr 2017) |
Kaleidoscope: An Interpersonal Process Group for People of Color

Wednesdays from 3-4.30pm
 
This interpersonal process group therapy offers a safe space and opportunities to reflect how you relate to yourself, others, and the world by receiving and providing support and feedback. The group is designed to help you have insightes on your relationship pattern and how you can related to others differently.  

The group is open to all students who identify as a person of color.  

Facilitated by Yoko Mori, Ph.D.

Please contact yokomori@uchicago.edu for more information.  
TODAY | 
OMSA Heritage Series: Latina Rebels
with Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez

TODAY, January 23, 6:00 pm
Reynolds Club, Mandel Hall
5706 South University Avenue

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez is a grassroots foreign citizen, maneuvering and resisting assimilation and respectability politics through what she calls her chonga Mujerista ethic. She is the founder of Latina Rebels, an online platform that boasts over 150k followers. She is from Managua, Nicaragua currently living in Nashville, TN. In 2015, she graduated with her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt University's Divinity School.

All are welcome to her discussion and keynote titled Woke Brown Girl: A Postcolonial Conversation Around Upholding a Latina Experience.

Presented by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA), Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS), and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán (MEChA) de UChicago.

For more information and to register, please click here
SURVEY open thru Jan. 25 | 

Survey open through Wed., Jan 25

SURVEY. UChicago's Catholic center, Calvert House, is getting a new director, and with it a new direction for Catholic life on campus.

We, a group of Catholic UChicago students and the Catholic Students Association, are interested in making sure that all Catholics on campus have an opportunity to provide input, whether or not they are part of Calvert House. We believe that Calvert House and campus are places where every Catholic student should feel comfortable, regardless of background or identity.

The survey takes 5 mins. It will close on Wed., Jan. 25, 11:59pm. Please, take the survey and share your voice:  tinyurl.com/UChiCath

AND THEN JOIN US FOR A TOWN-HALL MEETING. For the first time in over a decade, the local Priests' Placement Board will hold an open meeting at which all UChicago Catholics can share their perspective on church and Calvert's direction. Whether or not you want to do more or much as a Catholic, Calvert needs to understand your perspective. Join us on Mon., Jan. 30, 7pm, Calvert House, 5735 S University Ave.

Please invite friends, be they Catholic a lot or Catholic a little!
Wed., Jan. 25 |
The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics presents 
Susan Klock, PhD,
 
 
 
"Ethically Controversial Issues Surrounding Gamete Donation "
 

Wednesday, January 25, 12:00 pm
Billings Hospital, Room P-117
860 East 59th Street

Dr. Klock received her BA in Psychology at Butler University and her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Bowling Green State University. Currently, she is a Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology and Psychiatry at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Klock has over 20 years of experience in providing direct psychological counseling to infertile couples and in conducting research on multiple aspects of assisted reproduction. Her primary research and clinical interest is in the impact of infertility on mood and functioning, as well as psychological aspects of oocyte donation. She has authored over 30 peer-reviewed papers and numerous monographs on a variety of psychological issues related to assisted reproduction and female infertility.

For more information and to register, please click here
Wed., Jan. 25 |
BDS 101: Trump and Palestinian Human Rights

Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 pm
Stuart Hall, Cox Lounge
5835 South Greenwood Avenue

Join Students for Justice in Palestine for our second BDS 101 event to learn more about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement! This week we'll be discussing the impact of the Trump administration on Palestine and pro-Palestine advocacy in the US and around the world. All are welcome and questions are encouraged! There will be food catered from HoneyDoe at this event. 

RSVP here.  
Thu., Jan. 26 |
South Asia Seminar: 
Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Thursday, January 26, 4:30 pm
Foster Hall, Room 103
1130 East 59th Street
 
The South Asia Seminar presents  Thenmozhi Soundararajan (Dalit Rights Activist and Transmedia Artist; Visiting Faculty, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, University of Chicago). 

In the wake of the Women's March and the first week of the Trump Presidency Dalit American Transmedia Artist Thenmozhi Soundararajan discusses the possibility and the challenges for South Asian Communities in the face of the rise of Global Facism. From Justice to Rohith to South Asians Dump Trump she will introduce the contours of the problem from the perspective of South Asian Cultural Minorities and the solutions centering their vision. 

For further details please contact Sneha Annavarapu at snehaa@uchicago.edu

Persons requiring special assistance are requested to call 773.702.8637 in advance of the workshop.
Thu., Jan. 26 |
SJP General Body Meeting: 
Winter Quarter 2017

Thursday, January 26, 6:00 pm
Center for Identity + Inclusion
5710 South Woodlawn Avenue

Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Chicago is having our quarterly General Body Meeting Thursday, January 26th, in the Center for Identity and Inclusion Room TBA. Come learn about our organization and the different ways you can get involved in the movement to #FreePalestine. We will be providing food and refreshments from HoneyDoe.

RSVP here
Thu., Jan. 26 |
Education in a Global Context: Sites of Struggle, Contestation, and Re-imagining

Thursday, January 26, 6:00 pm
750 South Halsted, Room 605
Chicago, Illinois 60607
 
Join the Social Justice Initiative for the second public lecture in the Geographies of Justice Seminar. The event will explore how education institutions and systems operate globally. Panelists will discuss how organizers, artists and writers are analyzing, engaging and resisting public education, pedagogies and epistemologies, especially for marginalized communities.
Panelists include:
  • Salim Vally - Educator & Activist, University of Johannesburg
  • Keron Blair - Director & Organizer, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools
  • Mezna Qato - Educator & Scholar, University of Cambridge
  • Jesse Shakey - Vice President, Chicago Teachers Union
  • Pauline Lipman - Educator & Activist, University of Illinois in Chicago
To register, click here. 
Fri., Jan. 27 |
Human Rights in Practice Symposium

Friday, January 27, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Regenstein Library, Room 122
1100 East 57th Street

Join the Pozen Center for our annual symposium on Human Rights in Practice. The  2016 Human Rights Interns  will present reflections and lessons learned from their experiences with organizations around the world. The keynote lecture, "Reflections from Washington DC," will be given by Indivar Dutta-Gupta, AB'05 and 2004 Human Rights Intern, Co-Executive Director, Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality.

Please feel free to join us for part or all of the event!

Symposium Schedule
10:00 - 10:30am
Registration & Coffee
 
10:30am - 11:30am
WELCOME by  Susan Gzesh, Executive Director
KEYNOTE: "Reflections from Washington DC"
Indivar Dutta-Gupta, AB'05 and Human Rights Intern alumnus 
Co-Executive Director, Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality
 
11:30am - 12:30pm
PANEL 1: Human Rights in Chicago
PANEL 2: Transitioning Societies: Human Rights in the Context of Historical Legacies
 
12:30 - 1:30pm
LUNCH
 
1:30 - 2:30pm
PANEL 3: Human Rights across the U.S.
PANEL 4: Migration and Citizenship
 
2:45 - 3:45pm
PANEL 5: Criminal Justice & Community Voices 
PANEL 6: Global Health as a Human Right
 
4:00pm
RECEPTION

See the  webpage /  Facebook event for more details.
Fri., Feb. 3 |
"The Scottsboro Boys" at 
Porchlight Music Theatre

Friday, February 3, through Sunday, March 12
Stage 773
1225 West Belmont Avenue 
Chicago, IL 60657

The thrilling, final collaboration by the creators of Cabaret and Chicago, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS has been hailed as one of the most visionary and controversial musicals to grace the stages of Broadway and London. Nominated for 12 Tony Awards, and presented in the style of the notorious "minstrel show," this true-life story of nine African American teenagers accused and put on trial in Memphis for a crime they did not commit is one of the most infamous events in our country's history, igniting the start of the modern civil rights movement.

Purchase tickets here. 
Sat., Feb. 4 |
OBS presents: Saturday Night Lit

Saturday, February 4, 8:00 pm
Del Giorno Penthouse, W801
6031 South Ellis Avenue

Join the Organization of Black Students (OBS) for a chill, fun night of food, games, music, and more. Pajamas are encouraged! Tell ya momma, ya daddy, ya twice removed aunt, and ya friends. See you there!

Games include Xbox One Games, Pie Face Showdown, Black Card Revoked, Cards Against Humanity, Heads Up, and Twister. 

RSVP here. 
If approved, we will share your event in our weekly  e-newsletter the Monday before it is held.