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City of Refuge: New Immigration in Chicago and Beyond

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Symposium

City of Refuge: New Immigration in Chicago and Beyond

This symposium will look at municipal responses to migration and the various meanings and applications of "refuge."

Chicago and other cities like it have historically been destinations for migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees. Seeking safety during this contemporary period of mass migration, newcomers encounter a new policy environment. Chicago’s Welcoming City ordinance establishes a policy framework to receive newcomers into the urban social fabric while attempting to avoid municipal discrimination. Welcoming Cities have also become targets, shouldering the broader responsibilities and challenges of offering refuge in the United States as a national concern. In this symposium, scholars will trace the outlines and nuances generating one of the largest historic migrations ever seen in the Western Hemisphere, and follow these journeys in search of safety through transit countries and into the United States. We will address urban experiences in Chicago and elsewhere for newcomers and residents, seeking to better understand how we imagine refuge and how this concept is enacted, debated, and negotiated in daily life.

This event is in-person only. Free and open to the University of Chicago community. Campus ID required for entry.

SCHEDULE

10:00 – 11:00 am
Virtual Keynote by Bill Ong Hing

11:00 am – 12:50 pm
Immigration Through Latin American Contexts
Panelists: Veronica Zubillaga, Matthew David Bird, Nicole Hallett, Matt Wilde

1:00 – 2:00 pm
Lunch

2:00 – 3:50 pm
Refuge in the United States
Panelists: Lindsay Gifford, Ania Aizman, Chiara Galli, Domenic Vitiello

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This symposium will look at municipal responses to migration and the various meanings and applications of "refuge."

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From Eugenics to Genetics: The Role of Ancient DNA in Racist Appropriations of Classical Antiquity

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Lecture

From Eugenics to Genetics: The Role of Ancient DNA in Racist Appropriations of Classical Antiquity

Professor Denise Eileen McCoskey will deliver a lecture on the dangers of how research on ancient DNA has been appropriated by the far right.

This talk looks at some of the ways that research on ancient DNA has encouraged the treatment of race as both essential and biological. The danger of this trend is underlined by placing such research – as well as its appropriations by the far right – within the context of a broader resurgence of race science over the past ten years. Organized by the Ancient Greek Philosophy of Race and Ethnicity project at the Neubauer Collegium.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Denise Eileen McCoskey is Professor of Classics and affiliate in Black World Studies at Miami University (Ohio). She is the author of Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy and is currently working on a project examining the influence of eugenics on early 20th-century American classical scholarship.

Reception to follow.

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Professor Denise Eileen McCoskey will deliver a lecture on the dangers of how research on ancient DNA has been appropriated by the far right.

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New Directions in Literary Publishing: A Poetry Reading and Editorial Roundtable

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New Directions in Literary Publishing: A Poetry Reading and Editorial Roundtable

This poetry reading and editorial roundtable will feature some of the most exciting new voices in contemporary American poetry.

Please join us for a poetry reading and editorial roundtable with some of the most exciting new voices in contemporary American poetry.

Poetry Reading and Book Launch: April 29, 5–6:30 pm

The inaugural cohort of Advisory Poetry Editors for the “New Directions in Contemporary Literary Publishing” Arts Lab project—Kai Ihns, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Aditi Machado, and Margaret Ross—will read from their new books of poetry, followed by a Q&A and book-signing reception.

Editorial Roundtable: April 30, 2–3:30 pm

English department faculty member Srikanth Reddy (Series Editor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press, and Poetry Editor of The Paris Review) will join the Advisory Poetry Editors for a roundtable conversation on new directions in contemporary literary publishing.

*Cosponsored by the Department of English


About the Poets

Aditi Machado is the author of three books of poetry--Material Witness (2024), Emporium (2020), and Some Beheadings (2017)--and several chapbooks.

Imani Elizabeth Jackson is the author of the chapbooks Context for arboreal exchanges (Belladonna*, 2023) and saltsitting (g l o s s, 2020), and, under the moniker mouthfeel, coauthor of Consider the tongue (Paper Machine, 2019) with S*an D. Henry-Smith. Flag (Futurepoem, 2024) is her first full-length collection.

Kai Ihns is a poet and filmmaker based in Chicago. She edits The Year, a chapbook press, and works as an Advisory Poetry Editor at The Paris Review, among other things. She's the author of several pamphlets, a dissertation called Aspect Choreography, and two books of poems, most recently Of (The Elephants, 2024).

Margaret Ross is the author of two books of poetry, A Timeshare and Saturday.

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This poetry reading and editorial roundtable will feature some of the most exciting new voices in contemporary American poetry.

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Data and Democracy at Work

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Lecture

Data and Democracy at Work

Georgetown University law professor Brishen Rogers will explore how companies have used information technology to limit worker power.

Contemporary work and the conditions for worker organizing are changing dramatically due to the diffusion of new digital and data driven technologies. In his talk, Brishen Rogers will explore how major companies have used advanced information technologies to limit worker power, and how labor law reform could reverse that trend. Rogers will draw on his recent book, Data and Workplace Democracy: Advanced Information Technologies, Labor Law, and the New Working Class (MIT Press 2023), as well as recent ethnographic work on new organizing strategies among baristas to point to emergent possibilities for labor success.

This event has been organized by the Economic Planning and Democracy Politics research project at the Neubauer Collegium.


About the Speaker

Brishen Rogers is a professor of law at Georgetown University. His scholarship focuses on how labor and employment laws shape class formation, especially among low-wage and marginalized workers. Rogers’s law review articles have been published in various journals and have been cited in at least two landmark cases. He has taught at Temple University and Harvard Law School, has held visiting positions at Washington University in St. Louis and at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and was previously a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Rogers worked in the labor movement both before and after law school, including as part of SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign.

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Georgetown University law professor Brishen Rogers will explore how companies have used information technology to limit worker power.

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