CRES Talks: Conversations on Race and Ethnicity

PROGRAM ARCHIVE

2021-2022

October 27, 2021 |  Podcasting 101 Workshop with host of BLK IRL podcast, Anuli Akanegbu

November 15, 2021 | Nonlinear Text-Based Gaming in Twine with game designer Ho Yi Hui

March 3, 2022 | Turned into a Black Penis: Sexistence, Nihilism, and Subtraction with Professor Calvin Warren

 

2020-2021

May 17, 2021 | Alien Citizen screening with Lisa Liang

April 23, 2021 | Antiracists Gone Wild: Allyship, Antiblackness & the Afterlives of Ethnography with Savannah Shange

MoreThanDiversity Speaker Series – A series of conversations on models of Race, Ethnic, and Indigeneious Studies

 

2019-2020

January 29, 2020 | Simon Balto "Occupied Territory: Policing the Black Chicago"

March 2, 2020 | Dr. Veronica Terriquez

 

2018-2019

November 5, 2018 |  Seth Archer, "The Wasting Hand: Hawai‘i, 1840–55"

May 14, 2019 | Thomas Foster, “Rethinking Rufus”

 

2017-2018

December 1, 2017 | Mehammed Amadeus Mack, "Sexagon"

February 27, 2018 Josefina Baez , “Poetics & Performance in the Diaspora”

May 14, 2018 Poet Chrysanthemum Tran

 

2016-17

May 17, 2017 | Raul E. Moreno Campos on "The Rise of Authoritarian Neoliberalism under Donald Trump"

March 7, 2017 | Bronzeville Out: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Reshaping of African American Poetry

February 4, 2017 | A Boal Workshop with Teresa Veramendi

 
2015-16

May 18, 2016 | Óscar Martínez & Edu Ponces on "The Beast"-

May 9, 2016 | Graduate Student Panel on Asian American/Diasporic Studies

February 24, 2016 | "Native Hubs" with Renya K. Ramirez

 

2014-15

May 11, 2015 | "Langston Hughes Travels in Harlem" with Sandhya Shukla

April 20, 2015 | UChicago Graduate Student Panel on Latino/a Studies

April 13, 2015 | A Discussion of "Black Ethnics" with Christina Greer

The program in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) present a speaker series designed to bring to campus scholars and writers whose work is currently being taught at UChicago.  This series invites current CRES majors and minors, interested students and members of the general public to join us for in-depth conversations—bringing topics discussed within the confines of the classroom into an open forum.