UPCOMING EVENTS
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ABOLITION AND CARCERALITIESWORKING GROUP
Fall 2026: 10/14, 10/28, 11/18, 12/2 | CSRPC Community Room (5733 S. University Ave)
Please join the Abolition and Carceralities Working Group for a year of incredible speakers, thought-provoking work, and abolitionist programming. This working group is a space for community members and those who are university-affiliated to convene and discuss our works in progress, commiserate about challenges associated with an abolitionist approach in knowledge production, and explore/exchange emergent modes of abolitionist practice. This space is open to all! Light lunch will be provided during the meetings.
Zoom options are available.
Research Bites: Sharese King
Research Bites: Sharese King
Join us for a Research Bites conversation with Professor Sharese King! Sharese King is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago who received her PhD in 2018 from Stanford University. Her previous research has drawn on phonetic, ethnographic, and experimental techniques to explore how African Americans' speech is constructed and racialized and the implications for racialized voices within the judicial system in the United States. King is an expert on various topics in the study of African American Language including race and place, identity, and linguistic bias. King's work has been published in venues such as American Speech, the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language, and Nature.
Read more about them and their work here: https://humdev.uchicago.edu/directory/sharese-king
Research Bites is a speaker series created to build community between the center's faculty affiliates and staff members in order to improve how we support and amplify one another's work.
Join the Research Bites listserv to attend and/or get updates on future events: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/researchbites
Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact Tierra Kilpatrick 72-hours in advance at kilpatr3@uchicago.edu.
ABOLITION AND CARCERALITIES WORKING GROUP
Please join the Abolition and Carceralities Working Group for a year of incredible speakers, thought-provoking work, and abolitionist programming. This working group is a space for community members and those who are university-affiliated to convene and discuss our works in progress, commiserate about challenges associated with an abolitionist approach in knowledge production, and explore/exchange emergent modes of abolitionist practice.
This space is open to all!
Light lunch will be provided during the meetings.
Zoom options are available.
Research Bites: Carolyn Barnes
Research Bites: Carolyn Barnes
Join us for a Research Bites conversation with Professor Carolyn Barnes! Prior to the Crown Family School, Carolyn Barnes was an assistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Barnes’s research has been supported by the William T. Grant Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Blue Cross Foundation of North Carolina, The Wallace Foundation, and several family foundations. She completed a PhD in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Michigan, where she worked as an affiliate of the National Poverty Center conducting research on the effects of nonprofit community-based service provision on parenting practices and the psycho-social well-being of families and children.
Read more about them and their work here: https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/directory/carolyn-barnes
Research Bites is a speaker series created to build community between the center's faculty affiliates and staff members in order to improve how we support and amplify one another's work.
Join the Research Bites listserv to attend and/or get updates on future events: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/researchbites
Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact Tierra Kilpatrick 72-hours in advance at kilpatr3@uchicago.edu.
Views from UChicago: Book Talk - Nicholas Epley
"A Little More Social: How Small Choices Create Unexpected Happiness, Health, and Connection" by Nicholas Epley
Tuesday, February 2, 2027 at 12PM
Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122
Register for the event here by January 18, 2027.
Join Nicholas Epley, the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavior Science, and Director of the Roman Family Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, for a conversation about his book, "A Little More Social." Professor Epley draws on decades of behavioral science research to show how small acts of social connection can improve our happiness, health, and sense of belonging.
Views from UChicago: Book Talk - Rashauna Johnson
"Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History" by Rashauna Johnson
Tuesday, April 27, 2027 at 12PM
Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122
Register for the event here by April 9, 2027.
Join Rashauna Johnson, a historian of the 19th -century African diaspora and a Professor of U.S. History in the Department of History, and for The College, at the University of Chicago, for a conversation about her book "Sweet Home Feliciana." Professor Johnson weaves family history, archival research, and personal narrative to explore how slavery, colonialism, and Black resilience shaped generations in rural Louisiana.
Views from UChicago: Book Talk - Angela S. Garcia
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"Enduring Illegality: Time and the State of Waiting in Undocumented Middle Life" by Angela S. Garcia
Monday, November 16, 2026 at 12PM
Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122
Register for the event here by November 9, 2026.
Join Angela S. Garcia, Associate Professor in the University of Chicago's Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and Associated Faculty in Sociology, for a conversation about her book "Enduring Illegality." Professor Garcia utilizes her many years of research with undocumented immigrants to reveal how prolonged legal uncertainty shapes family life, caregiving, work, and belonging across generations.
Research Bites: SJ Zhang
Research Bites: SJ Zhang
Join us for a Research Bites conversation with SJ Zhang! SJ Zhang is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Their current project, Going Maroon and Other Forms of Family, considers how reproduction and carceral forces shaped the decisions and triggered the archives of four women who went maroon in North America and the Caribbean between 1781 and 1820. She is also working on a project concerning “Tituba, the Indian,” in which she examines Tituba’s testimony and subsequent representations through a lens of North American bondage and the historical carceral state. She teaches transnational literary histories of slave and maroon narratives, constructions of gender, race and forms of bondage before 1850, and courses on the work of Toni Morrison and archival theory and method. Her work is published in the History of the Present, William & Mary Quarterly, Small Axe, Representations, and Women & Performance.
Read more about them and their work here: https://english.uchicago.edu/people/sj-zhang
Research Bites is a speaker series created to build community between the center's faculty affiliates and staff members in order to improve how we support and amplify one another's work.
ABOLITION AND CARCERALITIES WORKING GROUP
Please join the Abolition and Carceralities Working Group for a year of incredible speakers, thought-provoking work, and abolitionist programming. This working group is a space for community members and those who are university-affiliated to convene and discuss our works in progress, commiserate about challenges associated with an abolitionist approach in knowledge production, and explore/exchange emergent modes of abolitionist practice.
This space is open to all!
Light lunch will be provided during the meetings.
Zoom options are available.
Views from UChicago: Book Talk Series with Selwyn Rogers
"Healing the Gun Violence Epidemic: Ending Violence, Rebuilding Communities, and a Trauma Surgeon's Vision for Restoring Hope" by Selwyn O. Rogers
Monday, October 26, 2026 at 12PM
Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122
Register for the event here by October 19, 2026
Join Dr. Selwyn O. Rogers, MD. MPH, founding Director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center, for a conversation about his book "Healing the Gun Violence Epidemic." Drawing on decades as a trauma surgeon, Dr. Rogers examines gun violence as a preventable public health crisis and offers a vision for rebuilding safer communities.
Featuring discussant: Franklin Cosey-Gay, Project Director of the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention
Stop Solitary: Protecting the Mental Well-being of Incarcerated
Join the Abolition and Carceralities Working Group for our first session on 10/14 from 12-1:30 in CSRPC (5733 S. University Ave). We are hosting Stanley Howard and Professor Gina Fedock on the mental well-being of incarcerated folks who are put in solitary confinement.
Stanley Howard, who is a Chicago Police torture survivor and a survivor of 39 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. He is a father, grandfather, and great-grandfather and has taught himself criminal law, organized and instructed law classes. For years, Howard has assisted many prisoners with their legal filings, founded The Death Row 10 Campaign (1998) with other Chicago Police torture survivors, which led to former Governor George Ryan pardoning four members of the Death Row 10 and a blanket commutation of all Illinois death sentences (2003), and Illinois’ death penalty being abolished in 2011.
Gina Fedock is an associate professor at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Her scholarly inquiry focuses on the experiences, conditions, and dynamics that impact the wellbeing of women involved in the criminal legal system. In the context of the mass incarceration of women, she focuses specifically on improving the mental health and wellbeing of women involved in the criminal legal system. She veers from a majority of criminal justice related researchers who conceptualize mental health disorders and symptoms as risk factors for criminal legal system involvement.
5733 Open House
Please join the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture for an open house to kick off the 2026-2027 academic year! Light fare and drinks will be provided. All are welcome! RSVPs are appreciated but not required to attend.
Roots Unbound: Returning our Stories to Us
ROOTS UNBOUND : Returning our Stories to Us
Join us for the Roots Unbound Showcase on June 20th at 3:00 PM at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center for a community gathering honoring stories of identity, loss, healing, and return. The showcase will primarily feature dance by Gabriel Gutierrez, a Chicago native, adult adoptee, reconnecting P’urhépecha Native, and founder of MOFundamentals, the only foster- and adoptee-led dance program in the United States. Now based in Los Angeles, Gabriel is a hip hop artist and artivist whose work highlights the resilience of the foster and adoptee community through movement, drawing on narratives of foster-care memory, P’urhépecha, and street dance culture, manhood, houselessness, survival, and grief. Through performance and storytelling, the event will celebrate the power of art to affirm lived experience, build connection, and imagine more healing futures.
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Discussion with Gabriel Gutierrez, and Director/Founder of BlackAdoption Project & Roots Unbound, and Gina Miranda Samuels to follow the show.
THE CORONER’S SILENCE
THE CORONER’S SILENCE
In this talk Professor Terence Keel will discuss his new book, The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence. Through rigorous research–including critical records analysis, public health studies, and interviews with victims’ families–the book unmasks the systemic failures within forensic medicine. Keel shows how incomplete autopsy reports, mishandled medical documents, and strategically lost evidence effectively shield law enforcement from accountability. The Coroner’s Silence uncovers how the current system of death investigation operates as a mechanism of institutional safeguarding. By highlighting the structural powerlessness of coroners and their disconnection from the communities most affected by police violence, Keel demonstrates how bureaucratic processes can render human suffering invisible. Forcing us to confront and reimagine how we investigate, document, and understand deaths at the hands of state institutions, The Coroner’s Silence is a crucial intervention that challenges us to contend with the deeply ingrained mechanisms that perpetuate systemic violence.
Terence Keel is an award-winning Professor of Human Biology & Society, and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written widely about race, religion, life science, law, and democracy. Keel is the Founding Director of the Lab for BioCritical Studies—an interdisciplinary space committed to studying the interactions of society and human biology. Keel also serves as the Advisor for Structural Competency and Innovation within the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. In addition to The Coroner’s Silence, Keel is also the author of Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science and co-editor of Critical Approaches to Science and Religion.
ROOTS UNBOUND: RETURNING OUR STORIES TO US
A Discussion about Adoption and Racial Healing
A Discussion about Adoption and Racial Healing featuring Dr. Gina Samuels - University of Chicago Professor and Director of the Roots Unbound Black Adoption Project - alongside performer and artist Gabriel Gutierrez The evening will showease poetry and visual art from local Illinois adoptees in Roots Unbound, alongside dance by Gabriel Gutierrez: a Chicago native, adult adoptee, reconnecting P'urhépecha Native, and founder of MOFundamentals, the only foster and adoptee-led dance program in the United States. Poetry and movement are woven into the performance itself, as storytelling and art come together to affirm lived experience, build connection, and imagine more healing futures.
CSGS/CSRPC/RDI Year end BBQ
Join us at the CSRPC as we gather to close out the academic year in community, reflection, and joy.
This end-of-year barbecue is an opportunity to celebrate the work, conversations, and connections that have shaped our year. Together, we’ve engaged critical ideas, supported meaningful research, and built spaces rooted in dialogue, equity, and cultural understanding. Now, we invite you to come together in a more relaxed setting to honor that collective effort.
Enjoy an afternoon of great food, music, and fellowship with students, faculty, staff, and community members.
2026 Annual Public Lecture: Robin D.G.Kelley Freedom Dreaming in Dark Times
2026 Annual Public Lecture: Robin D.G.Kelley Freedom Dreaming in Dark Times
We are honored to welcome Robin D. G. Kelley, a leading historian of social movements, cultural politics, and the Black radical imagination, for our annual public lecture. Kelley’s work explores how communities have struggled for freedom, how protest movements take shape, and how imagining new futures is itself a powerful form of resistance. His scholarship connects history to the present moment, offering tools to better understand protest, democracy, and the possibilities of social change—making his work especially relevant today.
This year’s lecture will feature Robin D. G. Kelley in conversation with Adom Getachew, Chair of Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Together, they will engage in a dynamic dialogue on freedom dreaming, political struggle, and the global dimensions of Black intellectual and activist traditions.
This event is co-sponsored by International House.
CoSponsors: The University of Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, AAUP, The Pozen Center for Human Rights, The Office of the Provost, The Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Tabling + Pre-Reception | 5:00-6:00 PM CST
Main Event | 6:00-7:30 PM CST
Research Bites: Eman Abdelhadi
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Eman Abdelhadi is a sociologist and assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She is a scholar of gender, religion, and migration who specializes in studying US Muslim communities. Her work has appeared in Social Forces, Gender & Society, and Socius, and her manuscript Impossible Futures: Why Women Leave Muslim American Communities is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. Her scholarship has been featured in the Associated Press, NPR, and the Washington Post. Abdelhadi also writes a column on US Politics for In These Times Magazine. Along with M.E. O'Brien, she is co-author of the revolutionary science fiction novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072, which came out in 2022 with Common Notions press and has been translated into French and Catalan.
Research Bites is a speaker series created to build community between the center's faculty affiliates and staff members in order to improve how we support and amplify one another's work.
Join the Research Bites listserv to attend and/or get updates on future events: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/researchbites. Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact Tierra Kilpatrick 72-hours in advance at kilpatr3@uchicago.edu.
Disrupt the "Not Telling": Unvarnished Dialogues on Tenure, Power, Equity, and Academic
Join us for a powerful panel discussion celebrating Disrupt the "Not-Telling": Gatekeeping Issues on the Way to Tenure and Promotion for Black Women at HBCUs, MSIs, and PWIs.
Scholars and contributors will explore the often unspoken realities Black women face in academia, including systemic gatekeeping, hidden expectations, and barriers to advancement. Through personal stories and research, this conversation centers storytelling as a tool for visibility and change while highlighting strategies for building more equitable and transparent pathways to success.
First 3 in person and first 3 online registrants will receive a copy of the book!
Robin D.G. Kelley’s essay “Black Study, Black Struggle”
Join us for a part three of our conversation series where we discuss Robin D.G. Kelley’s influential essay Black Study, Black Struggle, which reflects on the role of student activism in the wake of the Ferguson uprising and the broader movement against racial injustice.
In this essay, Kelley explores the history of campus protest, the tensions between reform and radical change, and the question of whether universities can truly serve as engines of social transformation. He also examines how political education, collective study, and community organizing have long shaped movements for liberation.
This conversation is part of our pre-reading discussion series leading up to our annual public lecture. Participants will engage key themes from the essay, reflect on the role of universities in movements for justice, and consider what it means to connect study with struggle in the present moment.
Light dinner will be served.
Pre-discussion reading: https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/robin-kelley-black-struggle-campus-protest/
Journey After Justice: A Conversation With Jerome Morgan
From 20 Years Wrongfully Incarcerated to Building a Legacy of Freedom
19 years, 11 months, and 25 days vs. 12 years, 2 months, and 4 days.
These are the numbers that frame a life interrupted—and a life reclaimed. After spending nearly two decades wrongfully incarcerated at Louisiana State Prison at Angola, Jerome Morgan emerged with a mission to transform his experience into a force for change.
Join us for a powerful conversation with Jerome, who now serves as a co-founder of Freed’em, an organization dedicated to mentoring youth in justice-impacted communities and cultivating the next generation of changemakers, mentors, artists, and advocates. Hear firsthand about his journey from exoneration to empowerment, and his ongoing work supporting both youth and exonerated men in New Orleans.
This event offers a rare opportunity to engage with a leader at the intersection of youth mentorship and restorative storytelling.
REGISTER: https://events.uchicago.edu/event/263875-journey-after-justice-a-conversation-with-jerome
Accessibility:
Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact Tierra Kilpatrick 72 hours in advance at kilpatr3@uchicago.edu.
From the River to the Sea to Every Mountain Top: Solidarity as Worldmaking
Join us for a part two of our conversation series where we discuss an essay by historian and scholar Robin D. G. Kelley. The essay explores the historical roots and political meaning of Black–Palestinian solidarity. Challenging the idea that solidarity is based solely on shared identity or analogy, Kelley traces connections to the global anti-imperialist movements of the late 1960s and the broader struggle to imagine new worlds rooted in liberation and justice.
This conversation is part of our pre-reading discussion series leading up to our annual public lecture. Participants will reflect on the essay’s key themes, consider the history of international solidarity movements, and engage in collective dialogue about what it means to build principled alliances in the present.
Pre-discussion reading:
https://online.ucpress.edu/jps/article-abstract/48/4/69/109629/From-the-River-to-the-Sea-to-Every-Mountain-Top?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Research Bites: Selwyn O. Rogers, MD
Join us for a Research Bites conversation with Dr. Selwyn O. Rogers! Read more about them and their work here: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/find-a-physician/physician/selwyn-o-rogers-jr.
Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., MD, MPH, FACS, is a widely respected surgeon and public health expert. As founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center, Dr. Rogers is building an interdisciplinary team of specialists to treat patients who suffer injury from life-threatening events, such as car crashes, serious falls and gun violence. His team works with leaders in the city's trauma network to expand trauma care on the South Side.
Dr. Rogers has served in leadership capacities at health centers across the country, including most recently as vice president and chief medical officer for the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Dr. Rogers has also served as the chair of surgery at Temple University School of Medicine and as the division chief of trauma, burns and surgical critical care at Harvard Medical School. While at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), he helped launch the Center for Surgery and Public Health to understand the nature, quality and utilization of surgical care nationally and internationally.
Additionally, as executive vice president for community health engagement, Dr. Rogers works with faculty across the University of Chicago as well as members of the community to develop a multidisciplinary approach to trauma care and health disparities. His work will help enhance the understanding of social factors that affect victims of violence and underserved populations, in addition to identifying approaches necessary to achieving better outcomes for trauma victims.
Dr. Rogers' clinical and research interests focus on understanding the healthcare needs of underserved populations. He has published numerous articles relating to health disparities and the impact of race and ethnicity on surgical outcomes.
Research Bites is a speaker series created to build community between the center's faculty affiliates and staff members in order to improve how we support and amplify one another's work.
Join the Research Bites listserv to attend and/or get updates on future events: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/researchbites Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact Tierra Kilpatrick 72-hours in advance at kilpatr3@uchicago.edu.
Conversation Series: Robin D.G. Kelley’s essay “Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror”
Join us for an intimate pre-reading discussion in advance of our Annual Public Lecture featuring Robin D. G. Kelley. This session will center on Kelley’s powerful essay reflecting on the Minneapolis uprisings following the murder of Renee Goods, examining grief, protest, memory, and the long arc of racial justice struggles. Together, we’ll read, reflect, and engage in guided conversation to deepen our understanding of the political, historical, and emotional stakes of the moment — and to prepare for the broader themes that will be explored during the May public lecture. No prior expertise required; curiosity and thoughtful engagement are encouraged.
Research Bites: Danielle Roper
Join us for a Research Bites conversation with Danielle Roper! Read more about them and their work here: https://rll.uchicago.edu/danielle-roper.
Danielle Roper is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. She holds a Ph.D in Spanish and Portuguese and an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. Her work on racial and queer performance, feminist activism, and racial formation in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean has appeared in GLQ, Latin American Research Review, and Small Axe. Her first book Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas was written with the support of the Neubauer Family Assistant Fellowship and is with Duke University Press (May 2025).
Research Bites is a speaker series created to build community between the center's faculty affiliates and staff members in order to improve how we support and amplify one another's work.
Join the Research Bites listserv to attend and/or get updates on future events: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/researchbites Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact Tierra Kilpatrick 72-hours in advance at kilpatr3@uchicago.edu.
Ryan Jobson: Peasants and Capital: Dominica and the World
Ryan Cecil Jobson will discuss the new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's bookPeasants and Capital: Dominica and the World Economy. He will be joined in conversation by Mark Hauser and William Balan-Gaubert. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
Liminal Encounters: Counternarratives of Rohingya Refugees
You are cordially invited to attend "Liminal Encounters: Counternarratives of Rohingya Refugees," an interdisciplinary symposium centered on the intersections between diaspora, statelessness, and borders. This event forms the third annual symposium of “Borderlands of Sonic Encounter,” Professor Philip Bohlman’s International Balzan Prize Project (2023–28). The symposium will unfold across two days: January 23–24. Day 1 will feature panel presentations and a keynote presentation by Tin Mar Oo at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Day 2 will include a roundtable on documentary filmmaking and a workshop on Rohingya music at the Rohingya Culture Center of Chicago, as well as an evening performance of Rohingya songs featuring Hamid Ullah at the Bramble Arts Loft. Food and drink will be provided between the panels on Day 1 and between the workshop and the roundtable on Day 2. The evening performance will be followed by a reception. Scan the QR codes in the attached flyers for more details.
If you have any questions or concerns about the symposium, please direct your inquiries to Tomal (thossain@uchicago.edu) and Vicky (vickymm@uchicago.edu).
Research Bites: Anna Martine Whitehead
Join us for a Research Bites conversation with Anna Martine Whitehead!
Whitehead is a faculty member at Department of Visual Arts and Chicago-based performance artist who dedicates her time thinking about the relationships between marginalized bodies, systems of violence, and modes of perception. In addition to building performances, Anna Martine writes, gathers, creates still and moving images, and makes space to iter-a-tively address questions around protocols of theater, dance, and institutional knowledge. Using a transdisciplinary approach, they bring their body and others into contact with those instruments historically weaponized for both containment and liberation such as: architecture, language, and technologies of memory-keeping.
Research Bites is a speaker series created to build community between the center's faculty affiliates and staff members in order to improve how we support and amplify one another's work.
Join the Research Bites listserv to attend and/or get updates on future events: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/researchbites
Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact Tierra Kilpatrick 72-hours in advance at kilpatr3@uchicago.edu.
Read more about them and their work here: https://dova.uchicago.edu/opc/anna-martine-whitehead
Sip + Shop
Join us for Sip + Shop, a monthly gathering at the L1 Retail Store that celebrates local creative entrepreneurs with a curated shopping experience, good drinks, bites, and even better vibes. Each month, our Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Peter Gaona of Reformed School, invites guest entrepreneurs to share their work and connect with the community—it’s an easy, joyful way to #SupportSouthSideArtists.
As part of The Winter Lounge, our December Sip + Shop brings an extra dash of holiday spirit with ornament and wreath making activities! Featured entrepreneurs Raíces Plant Bodega and Indigo Child Apothecary to share their work and make new connections. Come sip, shop, create, and spread some warmth with us on the Arts Block.
All APL programs are free and open to the public. To help us continue to provide these programs and build a hub for arts & culture on the South Side, we appreciate donations of all sizes. Your support sustains the rich ecosystem of artists that make the Arts Block so vibrant. To make a donation, please visit our giving page.
Research Bites: Janelle Goodwill
Join us for a Research Bites conversation with Janelle Goodwill!
Janelle R. Goodwill is a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice.Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Chicago, Janelle earned her MSW, MS in psychology, and PhD in social work and psychology from the University of Michigan. She completed her undergraduate studies at Michigan State University. Goodwill founded and directs of the Positive Urban Research and Prevention of Suicide Experiences (PURPOSE) Lab.
Research Bites is a speaker series created to build community between the center's faculty affiliates and staff members in order to improve how we support and amplify one another's work.
Join the Research Bites listserv to attend and/or get updates on future events: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/researchbites
Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact Tierra Kilpatrick 72-hours in advance at kilpatr3@uchicago.edu.
Read more about them and their work here: https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/directory/janelle-r-goodwill
Research Bites: Samantha Coleman
Join us for a Research Bites conversation with Samantha Coleman!
Samantha Coleman, PhD, serves as the Associate Director of Leadership Development for the Harry L. Davis Center at Chicago Booth. Coleman is a leadership expert whose clinical background deeply informs her work in executive coaching, organizational consulting, leadership development, and higher education. With a PhD in Organizational Leadership and years of experience as a licensed therapist, she brings a keen understanding of human behavior, emotional intelligence, and resilience to her roles. Now the Senior Associate Director of Leadership Development at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, she designs transformative learning experiences that empower leaders at all stages. Her “heart” and “legacy work” is as co-founder of Black to the Beginning, LLC. As a late discovery adoptee (LDA), she blends storytelling and advocacy to ensure the Black Adoption Experience is accurately conveyed for holistic understanding of this nuanced family dynamic. '
When she's not leading groups of Booth alums in leadership development, she's also a recent published author and the co-founder of "The Black Adoption" podcast, which both details her own story of being a Black adoptee of Black parents, but also aims to center other Black voices who have experienced similar circumstances.
Read more about them and their work here: https://intranet.uchicago.edu/en/news-and-events/news/2023/11/staff-spotlight-on-dr-samantha-coleman
Research Bites is a speaker series created to build community between the center's faculty affiliates and staff members in order to improve how we support and amplify one another's work. Join the Research Bites listserv to attend and/or get updates on future events: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/researchbites
Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact Tierra Kilpatrick 72-hours in advance at kilpatr3@uchicago.edu.
