11:00 am–12:15 pm
Zoom
Attend a panel discussion about the feature-length documentary film "Picture a Scientist," which leads viewers on a journey deep into a group of women scientists' own experiences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights.
5:00–7:00 pm
Zoom
Over the course of 2020-2021, the Contours of Black Citizenship in a Global Context project will host a series of Black Sound Listening Labs that will explore the confluence of popular culture, the aesthetics of alternate possibilities of belonging, and technological mediations of blackness and citizenship through sound. The first session, “Sacred and Secular,” will focus on Soul, Hip-hop, and the Theopolitics of Black gospel music with ethnomusicologist Alisha Jones, historian Claudrena Harold, and DJ Rae Chardonnay.
12:00–1:00 pm
Zoom
The Physical Sciences Division is hosting a series of roundtable talks exploring equity, diversity, and inclusion topics ranging from race and privilege to anti-racism.
5:00–6:30 pm
Zoom
Join the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights for a conversation with author and civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis about his 2019 book, "Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Justice System."
4:00–5:00 pm
Zoom
Want to meet FLI students from other Ivy+ schools? UChicago is partnering with Princeton, Williams, and Northwestern to offer students an opportunity to connect with one another.
11:00 am–12:30 pm
Zoom
In partnership with the Green Card Veterans, the Office for Military-Affiliated Communities will host a virtual discussion panel on US veterans who are being deported from America after serving our country honorably.
10:00 am–5:15 pm
Zoom
Attend the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights for the annual Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium featuring presentations by 2020 Human Rights Interns and mid-career alumni from past internship cohorts.
Through November 15, 2020
Online event
Register to watch the feature-length documentary film "Picture a Scientist", which leads viewers on a journey deep into a group of women scientists' own experiences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. You'll receive a link to the film enabling you to watch it online at any time November 13 -15. You can also attend a virtual panel discussion on November 18 from 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. featuring one of the scientists from the film and several UChicago women in STEM.
6:00–7:00 pm
Zoom
Join the School of Social Service Administration (SSA) in welcoming Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between the World and Me, (winner of the National Book Award in 2015), in conversation with SSA Assistant Professor Eve L. Ewing.
4:00–5:00 pm
Zoom
This semi-structured support space is for students of color to receive support, build community, and learn resiliency and coping strategies to thrive.