Reimagining the University: Race and Freedoms Conference

Reimagining the University: Race and Freedoms

This October the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) examined the intersections of race, white supremacy, social justice, and freedoms as they are practiced and censured within and beyond the context of the 21st century university. Alongside Students, Faculty, Community Members and our Center for Race Consortium partners at Brown, Stanford, and Yale, we considered:

  • What does it mean to practice freedom?
  • What is the role of “race" and other social statuses/structures in determining whose knowledge, expertise, experiences, and access to freedom counts?
  • What is the relationship between white supremacy culture and the practice/protection of freedoms?
  • How does campus culture, policy and climate engage, uplift, protect, suppress, patrol, or censure knowledge, experience, and knowers, particularly from marginalized and oppressed communities and positionalities?

 

Panel I Recording:

 

 

Panel II Recording:

 

 

Race, Freedoms, and White Supremacy: Reflections from an Outsider Within

  • Gina E. Miranda Samuels, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice; Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago

 

Panel I: Race & Transformative Practice, Scholarship and Teaching

  • Lisa Biggs- John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts and Africana Studies, Brown University
  • Cathy J. Cohen- David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor, Chair of Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, University of Chicago
  • Eujin Park- Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
  • Zelda Roland-Founding Director of Yale Prison Education Initiative, Lecturer in Education Studies, Yale University
  • Tricia Rose-(Moderator) Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University

Panel II: Practicing Freedom, Making Just Futures

  • Taji Chesimet-Beyond Prisons Student Coordinator, Fourth year student in the College, University of Chicago
  • Yanilda María González- Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
  • Renaldo Hudson- Education Director, Illinois Prison Project
  • Alice Kim-Director, Beyond Prisons, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago
  • Tracye A. Matthews (Moderator)- Executive Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago

Refracting Freedom: Interdisciplinary Black Storytelling

Performances by:

  • Shani Crowe- 2022-23 APL/CSRPC Artist-in-Residence
  • Lauren Dotson- Fourth year student in the College, University of Chicago
  • Emily Hooper Lansana- Lecturer, Senior Director of Logan Center Community Arts
  • Josh Nkhata- Third year student in the College, University of Chicago
  • S Simmons- Assistant Instructional Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice; Co-Chair for Crown Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity Committee

 

 

We thank our partners for their support: Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, Logan Center Exhibitions and the Centering Race Consortium, a Mellon Foundaton-supported project of CSRPC, Brown University Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Stanford University Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and Yale University Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration.