Carceral Liberalism in an Age of Fascism

Registration is now closed. The program has reached capacity. Email huminst@uic.edu to request to be added to the waiting list.

Please find readings for the symposium here and the program with speaker bios here.

As the world confronts fascism, authoritarianism, imperialism, and genocide, the UIC Institute for the Humanities is bringing together scholars, organizers, and artists to address the limitations of liberal responses. Can liberal cities and institutions protect vulnerable communities from repression? What can be done to push beyond carceral liberalism and center the humanity of the most vulnerable?


SCHEDULE

9:30-11:00: Radical arts and encounters with carceral liberalism
11:30-1:15: Chicago under occupation
1:30-2:45: Envisioning alternative futures
3:00-5:00: Screening of The Encampments

Join UIC faculty in conversation with Dylan Rodriguez, Rod Ferguson, Lisa Bhungalia, Antonio Gutierrez, Rey Wences, Martine Caverl, Damon Williams, Joey Mogul, Rev. David Black, and more. Featuring art from the Just Seeds Collective, No New Prisons campaign, and Mary Hazboun.

Lunch will be provided.

Sponsored by the UIC Institute for the Humanities, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, the Social Justice Initiative, Sociology, Criminology, Law, and Justice, the Arab American Cultural Center, Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change, and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.

LOCATION AND PARKING


This event will be in-person. SCE Room 301 and the bathrooms are wheelchair accessible. The film will be played with captioning and CART (live captions) will be available.

Masking will be available. UIC is not a fragrance-free campus, but please skip the cologne or perfume to make this a fragrance reduced environment! Please contact huminst@uic.edu with questions or additional accessibility requests.

Parking is available in the Halsted and Taylor Street Parking Structure (760 West Taylor Street). The entrance to this structure is on Taylor Street. Upon entry, guests should take a ticket, and upon exit, guests should present this ticket to the cashier and pay the appropriate total (cash, debit, and credit cards are accepted at this lot).