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| theHub is a weekly collection of news, opportunities and
events that advance CSRPC’s core mission to serve as
a center of research and an incubator of anti-racist practice. |
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| WEEK OF NOVEMBER 24, 2025 |
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CSRPC Artist-in-Residence Alumni Hosting Talk at Logan Center |
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Logan Center for the Arts (915 E 60th Street) |
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Dear friends, The Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts invites you to join us on Monday, December 1, 6pm at the Logan Center for the Arts, Penthouse Room 901 for an OPC talk with artist and DoVA faculty member, Nazafarin Lotfi. How has space, and our relation to space, shaped our identities and sense of self throughout time? How does a self-contained body operate within space vs. a body assumed as incomplete? Lotfi will discuss her work, recent exhibitions, and some of the leading questions that fuel her practice. Nazafarin Lotfi is a multidisciplinary artist and organizer who creates space through drawing, painting, sculpture, and community organizing. Embracing the power and agency of subtle forms, absence, and ambiguous materiality, Lotfi’s practice troubles the status quo and points to alternative realities beyond the here-and-now. |
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The LAND as they left it by Taylor Pate |
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| November 12 through December 12 |
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Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 1st floor |
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In the LAND as they left it, Taylor Pate's photographs document the land of Chicago’s Washington Park and Lakefront Trail through a sympathetic yet critical lens. Chicago is rooted on the ancestral lands of numerous Indigenous tribes, including the Neshnabé, Myaamia, Wea, and Kickapoo. But the Lakefront, once home to much hope, was soon filled with terror as Indigenous people were pushed away from the water and their spiritual ties to it were severed for the sake of the colonizer’s capitalistic greed. People are still actively being pushed off their land, as we see in Hyde Park with the historic Black population and never-ending evictions, renovations, and inflation. As the Lakefront was and is taken over, the shoreline changed, with the evidence scattered across sand, pebbles, and grass. |
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Research Bites: Anna Martine Whitehead |
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| December 10 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
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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 trans-disciplinary 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.
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Internet Futuring: How Communities are Connecting Themselves |
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| December 4 | 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
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This talk advances the twin concepts of internet management and internet futuring to analyse how least- and last-connected communities navigate broadband expansion as a site of power struggle and decolonising politics. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic research, it examines two U.S. initiatives: a City of Detroit open-access fibre project and a Northern Michigan Tribe’s network build.
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MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson |
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| December 9 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PT |
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UC Berkeley Gender and Women's Studies, Gender Equity Center, and Multicultural Community Center Event, Co-Sponsored The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson With Tourmaline, Angela Y. Davis, and Eric Stanley
Join us to celebrate the release of Tourmaline’s much-anticipated book, Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson. The first biography of Marsha, the book chronicles the life and work of a radical Black trans activist, artist, and world builder. Along with a reading, the event will feature a conversation between Tourmaline, Angela Y. Davis, and Eric Stanley.
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| | DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES |
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Support hurricane relief efforts in Jamaica |
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Faculty affiliate Danielle Roper is organizing relief funds for Jamaica. Thank you for all your support during this difficult time. You all will have seen the devastating images coming out of Jamaica. Relief efforts are ongoing and we need your support. I have gathered a preliminary list of local organizations in Jamaica seeking donations. I have also included a flier for a drive currently taking place on the South Side of Chicago in case anyone has items to donate. Since organizing is ongoing, please just continue to check this document for an updated list in the coming weeks.
Questions? Reach out to Danielle Roper, droper@uchicago.edu. |
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| | | DUKE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND FEMINIST STUDIES |
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Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute featuring faculty affiliate Kaneesha Parsard |
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The Department of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Duke University invites applications from graduate students for a five-day Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute. This year, the institute will focus on interdisciplinary Black feminist scholarship that attends to crisis. Graduate students will have an opportunity to engage closely with prominent scholars, and to meet students from other institutions with similar intellectual interests.
The due date for the application is Monday, December 15, 2025. Successful applicants will be notified by January 15, 2026. |
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The Office of the Provost Diversity and Inclusion team, in partnership with the Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, invites submissions for the 2025-26 Challenge Lab. The Challenge Lab supports projects that explore the relationship between diversity, inclusion, and free expression. Current University of Chicago academics of any rank including tenure-track, OAA, clinical faculty, and postdocs are eligible to apply.
Grants will be awarded up to $3,500. Learn more and apply here. >> |
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Styles and Practice in Storytelling by Emily Hooper Lansana |
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Emily Hooper Lansana | TAPS 22500/1 and CHST 22500/1 | W 9:30am-12:20pm "What is storytelling? It can be said that it is the oldest form of observing, synthesizing, and communicating feelings thoughts and information."-Temujin the Storyteller. Every day we use stories to communicate. This course provides students with an overview of the art and practice of storytelling. Chicago is a storytelling town from the Moth to Second Story and from Story Slams to traditional storytelling; performance artists give voice to a wide range of expression. Throughout this learning experience, students will be encouraged to explore the world of storytelling and to nurture their creative voices. Students will create and adapt tales focusing on personal experience, folklore, history, and ethnography. We will learn through participation and observation. The creative experiences in this course will enable students to further their skills in: oral presentation, story construction, performance, artistic critique, and analysis. Students will develop and perform stories from at least three distinct areas of experience. The course provides a creative space for learning and exploration. |
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