Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture Summer E-News
June 19, 2017*
Thread.City

Image Credit: "Thread.City,"  Cecil McDonald Jr.
Every evening (after sundown)
Arts Incubator
5513-5515 South Prairie Avenue
free and open to the public

What's on your mind? Care to share? Join or begin conversations with  Thread.City, and these  brief exchanges will be projected onto Prairie Avenue.  Thread.City is a project conceived and executed by Arts + Public Life / Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture 2016-17 Artist-in-Residence  Stephen Flemister.

The Artists-in-Residence program, managed by  Arts + Public Life and the  Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, is supported in part by a grant from  The Joyce Foundation.  

For more information, click here
save the date |  Seva Series: Cultivate Mindfulness

Tuesday, July 11, 
12:00 pm and 6:00 pm
Arts Incubator, Flex Space
301 East Garfield Boulevard
free and open to the public;  rsvp on Facebook
(rsvp appreciated, but not required) 

Join Arts + Public Life / Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture 2016-17 Artist-in-Residence  Lauren Ash for an hour-long practice of Seva and mindfulness. Seva (say-va) is a Sanskrit word representing the act of selfless service. Lauren will offer Seva practice at the Arts Incubator on the second Tuesday of every month. All those who join will create and engage in meaningful exchange. Attendees will also cultivate mindfulness through movement, meditation, and guided activity. In alignment with the objectives of her residency, Lauren is crafting Seva as a space that centers the healing of self-identified people of color.   

Space is extremely limited: arrive early. Please wear clothes that are comfortable for movement.  

Note: this is  not a yoga class. 

Lauren Ash is the Founder and Creative Director of Black Girl In Om, a lifestyle brand focused on cultivating holistic wellness, inner beauty, and self empowerment for women of color. She is also a certified yoga instructor, wellness curator, and creative writer. She is passionate about building authentic and meaningful community amongst women of color, people of color more broadly, and creatives and inspiring all people to live by their intentions and chase after their curiosities with enthusiasm, faith, and vision.  

Ash's work has been published in Design*Sponge, Blavity, and she has recently been featured in Nylon, The Cut, Teen Vogue, New York Magazine, and Elle.com. She is currently loving all things sports luxe, red wine, travel, and the monthly black joy centered day party she co-founded:  Party Noire.

The Artists-in-Residence program, managed by  Arts + Public Life and the  Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, is supported in part by a grant from  The Joyce Foundation.  

For more information, click here
save the date |  Before Work

Image Credit: Yaw Agyeman
Monday, July 17, 
7:00 am
Arts Incubator
301 East Garfield Boulevard

We generally associate Mondays with the blues and the dreaded start of the week. We also generally associate the time after 5pm as the moment to unwind.  Join Arts + Public Life / Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture 2016-17 Artist-in-Residence YAW for "Before Work."   Before Work hopes to bridge a gap and perhaps change the narrative around how we recharge and when.

Before Work will consist of live music, fresh herbal tonics/juice, coffee, and light pastries. Each month will feature an artist or practitioner that will help propel us into the week.

YAW has performed on both the theatrical and musical stage. He has toured in the play Red, Black and Green: a blues (MAPP) and performed in the world premiere of the musical, "Mister Chickee's Funny Money" (Chicago Children's Theater). The play features music from the Motown Great, Lamont Dozier. He has been featured on VH1's "Soul Cities", a show produced by Nelson George that showcases singers in cities all over the country, as well as on the Africa Channel's, "Soundtracks at Red Kiva", a program that focuses on artists of African descent.  Currently, he is a member of the artistic collaboration, "Black Monks of Mississippi", headed by the dynamic and prolific, Theaster Gates.

The Artists-in-Residence program, managed by  Arts + Public Life and the  Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, is supported in part by a grant from  The Joyce Foundation.  

For more information, click here
The "New Dawn" Podcast 
Flip'n the Script: Michael Dawson, Beyond Linked Fated, and the Roots to Racial Capitalism


New Dawn Podcast
Episode Ten: "Flip'n the Script: Michael Dawson, Beyond Linked Fated, and the Roots to Racial Capitalism
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We are pleased to introduce the "New Dawn"  podcast, an initiative of the Race and Capitalism project.  This project is co-led by CSRPC Faculty Director and Professor of Political Science Michael C. Dawson and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington Megan Ming Francis. 

In this special episode,  Megan Ming Francis  flips the script and engages  Michael Dawson  about his journey through activism and academia. Ranging from challenging institutions, returning to higher education, and where Dawson sees the state of the discipline since offering the Linked Fate measure and framework.

Listen now, and subscribe to catch future episodes!
CSRPC AFFILIATE EVENTS
currently on view | 
Cauleen Smith: Human_3.0 Reading List

through October 29
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 124 
111 South Michigan Avenue
general admission is free to Illinois residents every Thursday from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm throughout the year

Newspapers, magazines, and websites frequently offer lists: the 10 best new restaurants, the 50 top places to see in the world, the 100 best movies of all time. Chicago-based artist Cauleen Smith (2012 APL/CSRPC Artist-in-Residence) has created another kind of list, a new canon of humanistic literacy presented as a series of drawings. Titled  Human_3.0 Reading List, the project represents a new dimension of Smith's work, one that engages with the idea of a collective consciousness through manually drawn renderings of book covers.

In this series of 57 drawings-each produced on 8½ × 12- inch graph paper in watercolor over graphite, occasionally elaborated with acrylic-the artist proposes a selection of books that is both personal, conveyed by the frequent inclusion of fingers or a thumb shown holding up a given book, and idiosyncratic. Harriet Tubman, C. L. R. James, and bell hooks find their place alongside  Starfish, Sea Urchins, and Their Kin by Nelson Herwig. Together the drawings ask challenging questions: Have you read these books? Will you read these books? What will they mean to you? What do they mean to us now? Which titles might be missing? 

An artist whose primary discipline is film, Smith has incorporated various influences and references in her images-science fiction, the black diaspora, and the lyrical potential of landscape. She first garnered national recognition with her feature-length film  Drylongso (1998), which she completed during her graduate training at UCLA's film school. In 2010, Smith moved to Chicago, where her work has grown increasingly site-specific and engaged in social activism. She created the Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band Project, which has organized flash-mob appearances of a marching band composed of youth groups from the city's South Side. This and other recent works have explicitly invoked the legacy of pioneering composer and performer Sun Ra, whose music and elaborate self-defining mythology also propelled the broader artistic movement of Afrofuturism. 

Grounded in a sober assessment of race relations and institutional power structures,  Human_3.0 Reading List calls its viewers to prepare for social change through self-empowered education. In the final words of the manifesto accompanying the series, Smith exhorts her audience: "Love. Resist. Read on. Right on."

Related Programming
Thu, Jun 22, 6:00 pm 
Concert: Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris-"EarthSeed"
$5 members and students, $10 nonmembers

Thu, Jul 6, 11:00 am
Summer Open Studio
Free; No registration required

Image Credit: Cauleen Smith. Wild Seed, from Human_3.0 Reading List, 2015. Promised gift of Helen and Sam Zell.

For more information, 
click here.
 

Millennium Park Summer Music Series: Gregory Porter | The Tomeka Reid Quartet

TODAY, June 19, 6:30 pm
Millennium  Park, Jay Pritzker Pavilion
201 East Randolph Street
free and open to the public


Gregory Porter:  An artist whose music is at once timeless yet utterly of its time, Gregory Porter solidifies his standing as his generation's most soulful jazz singer-songwriter with 'Take Me to the Alley', winner of the 2017 GRAMMY® Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Porter has time and again demonstrated an innate ability to transcend genre and connect with audiences from all walks of life.

The Tomeka Reid Quartet Recently described as a "New Jazz Power Source" by the New York Times, Chicago cellist and composer Tomeka Reid (2012 APL/CSRPC Artist-in-Residence) has emerged as one of the most original, versatile, and curious musicians in the Chicago's bustling jazz and improvised music community over the last decade. Reid is a 2016 recipient of a 3Arts award in music.

For more information, 
click here.
 

BMRC presents:
Chicago Black Women's Activism + School Choice in Chicago

Friday, July 14, 5:00 pm
Union League Club 
65 West Jackson Boulevard
free and open to the public; rsvp on Eventbrite

Please join us for an evening of research & refreshments. 2017 BMRC Summer Short-term Fellows William Adams and Nicholas Kryczka will speak on the following topics (in order of name): "Windy City Heroines: Black Women's Activism During the Harold Washington Campaign in 1983," and "Renewal by Choice: Schools, Space, and the Black Metropolis in Post-Civil Rights Chicago," respectively. 

About the Fellowship Program
Through an international competition, the BMRC offers 1-month residential fellowships in the City of Chicago for its Summer Short-Term Fellowship Program. Generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2009, the Summer Short-Term Fellowship Program has engaged scholars, artists, writers, and public historians from all around the world to better formulate new historical narratives of Chicago's past. The new, original research and art developed through this program is significant as it illuminates the national and international importance of Chicago's African American community.

For more information, 
click here.
 

The Seminary Co-op Bookstore Podcast:  Open Stacks

Open Stacks brings you conversations with scholars, poets, novelists and activists on subjects as eclectic as the books on our shelves, from under-the-radar debates in the academy to pressing contemporary social issues, and from bestselling works of fiction to avant-garde poetics. Recorded live at Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Open Stacks invites listeners to sit in on the kind of candid discussions and lively debates made possible by the participation of readers in a public space, with the aim of expanding and encouraging a broader community of ideas.  Join the conversation.  

Episode 1 features Michael Eric Dyson  speaking about the myth of whiteness and the 2016 election.
 
In our  second episode  sociologist Kimberly Kay Hoang (CSRPC Faculty Affiliate)  talks about the sex industry in Vietnam, the subject of her book Dealing in Desire.
 
We also feature  Natalie Moore  in conversation with Rick Perlstein on segregation and housing inequity in Chicago in  episode 3,  alongside anti-oppression poems by Kevin Coval.
 
Forthcoming episodes feature poet  Clint Smith  on American historical amnesia, Colson Whitehead  on his Pulitzer-winning novel The Underground Railroad and author Deepak Unnikrishnan sharing stories of South Asian laborers in the United Arab Emirates.

For a complete list of upcoming events, please check  

OPPORTUNITIES
Fellowship, Job, Internship + Volunteer Opportunities

CSRPC Graduate Lectureships 2017-18


The College and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture are putting out a second call for applications from advanced graduate students to teach one undergraduate course of their own design on topics related to race and ethnic studies.  Courses in any related top 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.  

Eligibility: 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 or $6,000 (depending on graduate status) and is available for one quarter only.  Up to two Graduate Lectureships will be awarded in this second round.  Students applying to teach in other departments may not teach the same course for CSRPC during that academic year.  

Application ProcessThe online applications and instructions are available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVmoS3wq1kPbfcYE_N8LWz9YVc2xHL-KZ7SfDuRANVHus2eQ/viewform?usp=sf_link . The online application form should be submitted and other materials emailed  to Sarah Tuohey, Student Affairs Administrator of  the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and Center for the Study of Race, Politics,  and Culture, University of Chicago, by EOD TODAYJune 19, 2017 
( E-mail:   stuohey@uchicago.edu ).

Required Materials: 
  • A two-page curriculum vitae
  • A teaching statement explaining the aims of your course, your preparation for teaching it, and your teaching philosophy and method
  • A proposed syllabus with a detailed course description
  • Optional: course evaluations from previous teaching experience
  • A chapter of the dissertation
  • Two letters of recommendation from a member of your committee confirming that you have completed at least one chapter of your dissertation emailed directly to Sarah Tuohey

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, 
DePaul's African and Black Diaspora Studies Program

We invite applications for the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship. The fellowship is housed in DePaul's African and Black Diaspora Studies Program. 
The Wells-Barnett fellow is expected to teach three courses over the academic year (usually one each in Fall/Winter/Spring quarter). Teaching experience in a higher education setting is strongly preferred. Specific courses to be taught will be ultimately be determined in dialogue with the department. 

Fellows will also be expected to present their research to the DePaul and local community and participate meaningfully in the life of the African and Black Diaspora Studies Program, its students, and the affiliated Center for Black Diaspora. The individual who fills this position will also have opportunities to work with faculty in other departments and programs, centers and institutes at DePaul.

The ideal candidate's scholarship will substantially and meaningfully reflect Wells-Barnett's spirit of advocacy. Eligibility is restricted to those who have received their PhD no earlier than 2013. Applicants should have a strong and clearly defined research agenda.

Appointment of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett teaching fellow will be for the academic year 2017-2018. The fellowship may be extended for a second year, based on review and budget availability. DePaul University will provide the fellow with office space and modest funds for travel and research. This is also a benefits-eligible position. 

Review of applications will begin July 5, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled. Early submission is strongly encouraged. Applications must be submitted through DePaul University's Faculty Opportunities website. The application portal, along with a more detailed job description may be found at  https://facultyopportunities.depaul.edu/postings/1289.

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Diversity & Inclusion (BSD) Graduate Assistant

The Office of Diversity & Inclusion in the Biological Sciences Division seeks a graduate student assistant. This person will assist with website design and maintenance, help with assessment, marketing materials, PowerPoint presentations, create and edit event flyers, as well as research literature reviews on diversity and inclusion related topics in STEM.

Interested in applying?
Login to your student/alumni account via GRAD Gargoyle > Jobs > Jobs and Internships > Search "Diversity & Inclusion"
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Open Position: Communications and Events Manager, 
Pozen Family Center for Human Rights


The Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago was founded in 1998 and renamed the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights in July 2014. The Pozen Center supports innovative interdisciplinary teaching and research initiatives that critically explore the theory and practice of global human rights. 

The Manager, Communications and Events provides leadership for Pozen Center communications efforts and works closely with the directors to plan and implement events. The position requires close collaboration with campus offices, outside vendors, faculty, students, alumni, and donors. Supervision of student employees may be required. 
 

To apply, visit:
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Open Position: Program Coordinator, Program on the Global Environment
  


The Social Science Collegiate Division (SSCD) at the University of Chicago invites applications for a full-time Program Coordinator for the Program on Global Environment to manage all aspects of the Environmental and Urban Studies program.

The Coordinator collaborates with a range of staff, faculty, graduate students and other academic personnel to facilitate the college major and minor requirements. The Coordinator will serve as a point of contact and information source for all program components, including the major and minor, Chicago Studies Quarter and Certificate Program, working groups and student-based initiatives, and events. The coordinator will also work independently, managing the Program's daily and annual operations, budget and administrative responsibilities, communications, including website management, and coordination with related campus units. The Coordinator reports to the Director of the Program on Global Environment. 

To apply, visit:

For more information, click here
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National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) 
Internship Opportunities

Internships at the National Museum of African American History and Culture offer college and graduate students and recent graduates opportunities to work closely with professionals and scholars in the museum field. The museum provides a dynamic learning environment and access to supportive mentors that help interns reach their educational and professional goals. Interns can gain practical museum skills and program development experience in a variety of positions from education to collections to public relations. Internship projects are based upon the need and availability of professional staff.

Internship Sessions
Internships occur during the summer, fall, and spring from 10 to 15 weeks, beginning June 1, September 15, and January 15. Start dates and duration are flexible and arranged in coordination with the supervisor.

Application Deadlines
Fall Internships:  July 15
Spring Internships:  October 15

For more information, click here
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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
currently on view | "The Petty Biennial"

through June 23
Arts Incubator Gallery
301 E Garfield Blvd

The Petty BiennialAn Exhibition Curated by La Keisha Leek and Sadie Woods,
Arts + Public Life's Inaugural Curatorial Collective

Arts + Public Life 's inaugural Resident Curatorial Collective presents The Petty Biennial , an exhibition project that complicates dominant narratives of contemporary cultural, social, political norms. It is a response to classist views towards communities of color and marginalized art practices. At the intersection of race, gender and sexuality, featured artists showcase a range of regional and national perspectives unique to North and Central Americas, and the Caribbean. Works include video, painting, installation, performance, and photography engaging in critical forms of authorship through hypervisibility and self-representation.
currently showing | "Paradise Blue" by Dominique Morisseau  

through July 23
Timeline Theatre
615 W Wellington Ave

directed by Ron OJ Parson
original music composed by Orbert Davis

"We all got sadness. But I like to turn mine into fire, baby. What you do with yours?"

A dynamic and jazz-infused drama about what's at stake when building a better future. In Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood in 1949, a gifted trumpeter and troubled owner of the Paradise jazz nightclub is contemplating a buyout offer for the city's urban renewal plan. As the inhabitants of the famed but faltering jazz club ponder their options and dream of a better life, they must decide whether to fight to save what's theirs or risk it all for a chance at redemption.

This latest from Dominique Morisseau's widely acclaimed cycle of plays about Detroit once again proves why she's one of America's most urgent playwrights.
 
For more information, and to purchase tickets click  here
Tue., Jun 20 | 
The Black Chicago History Forum's   Committee on Black Core Culture presents:  "JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION:  Honoring the Ancestors at the Time of Emancipation from Slavery"
 
Tuesday, June 20, 6:00pm  
DuSable Museum of African American History
Ames Auditorium/North End
740 E 56th Pl 

TOPIC: JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION: Honoring the Ancestors at the Time of Emancipation from Slavery
 
SPONSORING UNIT: Committee on Black Core Culture
 
FORMAT: Community celebration with TESTIMONIES, earliest family PHOTOGRAPHS and the calling of the NAMES of our loved ones (the ROLL CALL)

All sessions are free and open to the public. They also will be videotaped for historical purposes and stored within the Charles V. and Dona Cooper Hamilton Collection at the Du Sable Museum of African American History where they will be available for public review and scholarly use. To obtain further information on the mission and activities of the Black Chicago History Forum, contact 312.385.9179 or creed@roosevelt.edu.
Wed., Jun 21 and Sat. Jun 24 | Community Conversations to Discuss Future 
of Jackson  and South Shore Parks
 
Wednesday, June 21, 6:00pm  
South Shore Cultural Center
7059 S South Shore Dr

Saturday, June 24, 10:00am
Hyde Park High School
6220 S Stony Island Ave

The Chicago Park District and the City of Chicago today announced that they will begin to hold community meetings to discuss the future of Jackson and South Shore Parks in light of the addition of the Obama Presidential Center and related park improvements. The first meeting will be held on June 21 at South Shore Cultural Center from 6 pm - 8 pm, and the second meeting will be held on June 24 at Hyde Park High School from 10 am to noon. One additional meeting will be held at Alderman Leslie Hairston's ward meeting on June 27 at La Rabida Children's Hospital at 6 pm.

The meetings, billed as Community Conversations on the future of Jackson & South Shore Parks, will be hosted by the Chicago Park District and the City of Chicago and will include brief presentations from the Park District, the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) and the Obama Foundation. However, the main purpose of the meetings will be to obtain community feedback about the future of Jackson and South Shore Parks. 

For more information, click here
If approved, we will share your event in our  e-newsletter the Monday before it is held.
*The CSRPC Summer E-News will be sent every other week until the start of the Autumn Quarter on September 25, 2017.