2018-19 Artists-in-Residence Application
Calling all Chicago artists! Apply for a 10-month residency supported by the CSRPC and Arts+Public Life.
Decades of South Side Home Movies Released in Digital Archive
Under the South Side Home Movie Project, over 200 home movies, spanning more than half a century of South Side visual history, will be available to view online beginning May 1, 2018.
Welcoming Puerto Rican Scholars
Join us in welcoming Puerto Rican students to campus under the Hurricane Maria and Irma Initiative. We hope the students can acclimate and enjoy the best of the university during their time here.
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News & Announcements
Faculty Affiliates Hold Slavery and Visual Cultures Colloquium
Slavery and Visual Cultures Working Group hold a three day conference in Paris and Nantes to bring together scholars in one of France’s most important slave trading ports.
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Now Accepting Applications for the 2018-19 Artists-in-Residence Program
In partnership with Arts and Public Life, the CSRPC offers a yearlong residency for Chicago-based artists, writers, thinkers, and collaboratives.
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Tracye A. Matthews Appointed As Executive Director
Tracye A. Matthews will assume the position of Executive Director for the CSRPC on July 1, 2018.
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Hot Topics
May 23 | Srikanth Reddy Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Faculty Affiliate Srikanth Reddy will use the award to complete a new book of poetry, titled “Underworld Lit.”
May 19 | Belew Interviewed by New York Times on White Power
In a NYT interview, Faculty Affiliate Kathleen Belew talks about the connections between Vietnam, terrorism, and the White Power movement.
Apr 27 | Forrest Stuart wins Laing Prize for his book Down, Out & Under Arrest
The University of Chicago Press has awarded the Gordon J. Laing Prize to Asst. Prof. Forrest Stuart for Down, Out & Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row, the UChicago sociologist’s close-up look at the relationship between police and the poor living in Los Angeles’ Skid Row.