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2018-19

Fall | Winter | Spring | Program Director: Robert Orsi


Fall Quarter 2018

 

Thursday, November 1st, 2018 || Trienens Forum

A Conversation with Elliott Gorn; "Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till"
Elliott Gorn (Loyola University Chicago)
Kevin Boyle (Northwestern University)
Timothy Guilfoyle (Loyola University Chicago)
Robert Orsi (Northwestern University)

Professor Elliot Gorn held a discussion on campus and read excerpts from his recently published book  on the historical and cultural effects of the murder of Emmett Till and its meaning within today's political climate.

Professor Gorn is the Joseph A. Gagliano Chair in American Urban History at Loyola University, Chicago. His books include Dillinger’s Wild Ride: The Year That Made America’s Public Enemy Number One (2009); Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (2001); A Brief History of American Sports, co-authored with Warren Goldstein (1993; 2004); and The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America ( 1986; 2nd edition, 2010). 


Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora  2018-19 programming

Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) provides an interdisciplinary intellectual space for faculty and students to interrogate issues in comparative race and ethnic studies, social and economic inequalities, public culture, and transnational history alongside gender, sexuality, class, and religion. 

WINTER QUARTER 2019

 

Spring Quarter 2019

 

Senior Symposium 2019

Tuesday, May 21st  2019  ||  3:30pm - 6:00pm

 

Seeds Are Stories: Toward Generating Collaborative Seed Systems
by Aliana Ruxin

                       

“I’m so OCD”: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder asa ‘Model Minority’ of Mental Illness
by Irina Huang

           

Walking the Borderlands: Trans* Latinx World-Making in Film
by Mattlyn Cordova

                       

If Looks Could Kill: The Aesthetic Power of Radical Female Militants in the New Left
by Claire Fahey

           

Black Women Healers: Sexual Trauma, Spiritual Healing, and Reclaiming Sexual Agency in the 21st Century Chicagoland Area
by Toni Akunebu

 

Wednesday, May 22nd 2019 || 3:30pm - 6:00pm 

         

School Discipline and the Cognitive Repercussions of Childhood Trauma: An Examination of Discipline Policy in Connection to Juvenile Delinquency                  
by Caroline Thomas

 

Cuban Exiles, Cuban Americans, and Twentieth Century Press
by Charles Valdes Yelin

 

One Woman, Two Voices: The story of Sigrid Schultz and her reportage on Germany during the 1930s and 40s
by Alexia Levitt

 

Murals of Memory: The 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike
by Nicholas Anderson

                       

The United States’ Vertical Border: A Case Study of the 2016 Ecuadorian Mass Deportation of 121 US-bound Cubans
by Grant Everly