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