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Race & U.S. Empire Archive (2017-2018)

Please see below for archived 2017-2018 events.

RACE AND U.S. EMPIRE WORKING GROUP READING

Reading Group

September 28 from 12:30 – 2 PM.

Please join us for a discussion of Alyosha Goldstein‘s Formations of United States Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2014).

The meeting will be organized as a book discussion. Please plan to complete some or all of the reading before attending.

 Date(s): Thursday, 9/28 12:30 PM to Thursday, 9/28 2:00 PM
Campus Address: IRRPP Conference Room, CUPPAH, Room 330
Address: 412 South Peoria
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Contact: Linda Vavra
Phone: (312) 996-6352

RACE AND U.S. EMPIRE WORKING GROUP: BOOK DISCUSSION

October 19, 2017 from 12:30-2:00

Location: Institute for the Humanities, lower level Stevenson Hall

Book Discussion – Sarah Haley’s book, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity(University of North Carolina Press, 2016)

The meeting will be organized as a book discussion. Please plan to complete some or all of the reading before attending.

Date(s): Thursday, 10/19 12:30 PM to Thursday, 10/19 2:00 PM

Address: 701 South Morgan St.
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Contact: Linda Vavra
Phone: (312) 996-6352

RACE AND U.S. EMPIRE BOOK DISCUSSION

November 30, 2017 from 12:30-2:00

Location: Institute for the Humanities, lower level Stevenson Hall

Book Discussion:  Avery Gordon’s book, The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins (Fordham University Press, 2017)

The meeting will be organized as a book discussion. Please plan to complete some or all of the reading before attending.

Date(s): Thursday, 11/30 12:30 PM to Thursday, 11/30 2:00 PM

Address: 701 South Morgan St.
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Contact: Linda Vavra
Phone: (312) 996-6352

RACE AND U.S. EMPIRE WORKING GROUP: BOOK DISCUSSION: AVERY GORDON’S BOOK, THE HAWTHORN ARCHIVE: LETTERS FROM THE UTOPIAN MARGINS

February 8, 2018 from 9:30 – 11:00 AM

Book Discussion:  Avery Gordon’s book, The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins (Fordham University Press, 2017)

The meeting will be organized as a book discussion. Please plan to complete some or all of the reading before attending.

Date(s): Thursday, 2/8 9:30 AM to Thursday, 2/8 11:00 AM
Address: 701 S. Morgan St.
Location: Chicago, IL, United States
Contact: Linda Vavra
Email: lvavra@uic.edu
Phone: 312-996-6354

RACE AND U.S. EMPIRE WORKING GROUP: BOOK DISCUSSION, JACKSON RISING

Race and US Empire Working Group Event:

Book Discussion: Jackson Rising (Daraja Press, 2017)

March 22, 2018 from 9:30-11:00

The meeting will be organized as a book discussion. Please plan to complete some or all of the reading before attending.

Date(s): Thursday, 3/22 9:30 AM to Thursday, 3/22 10:30 AM
Address: 701 S. Morgan St.
Location: Chicago, IL, United States
Contact: Linda Vavra
Phone: 312-996-6354

RACE AND U.S. EMPIRE WORKING GROUP: BOOK DISCUSSION

Book Discussion: Inderpal Grewal’s Saving the Security State (Next Wave: Duke University Press, 2017)

April 19, 2018 from 9:30-11:00

The meeting will be organized as a book discussion. Please plan to complete some or all of the reading before attending.

Date(s): Thursday, 4/19 9:30 AM to Thursday, 4/19 11:00 AM

Address: 701 S. Morgan St.

Location: Chicago, IL, United States

Contact: Linda Vavra

Email: lvavra@uic.edu

Phone: 312-996-6354