Past Events

Chazen Museum of Art
September 13, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Join Ethelene Whitmire, co-curator of the exhibition ‘Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century’! Reserve seats here. 

Sewell Social Science Building in Room 8417
September 11, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Learn more and register for this event here.

Memorial Union – Tripp Commons
September 9, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Network, mingle, and share ideas with peers and faculty at the Ethnic Studies Mixer to get a positive start to your semester: When: September 9th from 1-3 pm Where: Memorial Union – Tripp Commons The Department of …

Pyle Center #121
March 23, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History & Social Justice Harlem’s Emmet Till The Short Life and Long Death of Walter Vandermeer

March 24, 2022 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Chicago at the School of Arts Institute of Chicago
October 16, 2019 @ 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm

Wednesday, October 16th, Afro-American Studies Professor Ethelene Whitmire will be on a panel about African Americans in Europe: London, Copenhagen, and Paris in Chicago at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. “African Americans …

A Room of One's Own
May 13, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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  A Room of One’s Own is thrilled to welcome Simon Balto, author of Occupied Territory! In Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power, a history of Chicago from 1919 to the rise …