October 27 Conference to Examine the Role of Race on College Campuses

University of Chicago Race Center Convenes University Partners for Cross Cutting Conversations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 18, 2023
Contact: Anaga Dalal, adalal@uchicago.edu, 201.600.4718 (c)

Chicago, IL. The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago will convene leading thinkers, students, and activists from the University of Chicago community—and beyond—to discuss the role that race plays on college campuses.

The conference, entitled “Reimagining the University: Race and Freedoms” will feature public panels and performances on October 27th from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park.

“We are in dire need of a paradigm shift within and beyond the modern university,” says Gina Miranda Samuels, professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and CSRPC faculty director.

“The CSRPC convening attempts to reimagine that socially just paradigm and expose how white supremacy culture fuels practices that routinely undermine our collective experiences of freedom, power, and agency.”

The conference will also serve as a gathering of the Mellon-funded Centering Race Consortium, which includes CSRPC university partners from Brown, Stanford, and Yale.

Professor Samuels will deliver opening remarks at 9:30 a.m.

Other panelists include:

• Cathy Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago

• Tricia Rose, Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University

• Eugin Park, assistant professor of education at Stanford University

• Zelda Roland, director of the Yale Prison Education Initiative

• Yanilda Maria Gonzalez, assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

More than 150 people are expected to attend the day of panel discussions and performances.