2024 Grace Holt Lecture and Celebration
Hybrid attendance (online & in-person)
April 18, 2024
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Student Center East (SCE), Room 301
Address
750 S. Halsted Street, Select
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Join the UIC Department of Black Studies for their annual Grace Holt Lecture and Celebration! This event honors the tremendous work and legacy of Dr. Grace Holt, the founder and first director of the UIC Department of Black Studies.
The 2024 Annual Grace Holt Celebration serves the purpose of engaging our community of faculty, staff, students and alumni with emerging scholars and pressing issues in Black Studies as well as providing a space for reconnection and networking.
RSVP here: https://forms.uofi.uic.edu/sec/759714480
We believe that training in Black Studies is critical for our students as they enter an increasingly tumultuous world and that we provide an important companion to many professions ranging from health care to business, law and public policy. This was Grace Holt's vision, and we are committed to sustaining it even in challenging times.
At the event each year, we recognize outstanding UIC students that are dedicated to fighting social injustices and promoting racial equity in our community.
The celebration will feature keynote speaker Dr. Sami Schalk (she/her), an associate professor of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schalk’s talk is titled, “504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party.” Drawing from her book, Black Disability Politics, this talk will detail the Black Panther Party’s involvement in the 1977 504 Sit-in and discuss it as a historical example of how Black cultural workers have engaged with disability as a political issue in ways that have sometimes been obscured in Black studies and disability studies alike.
Dr. Schalk is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction (Duke 2018) and Black Disability Politics (Duke 2022). Dr. Schalk’s academic work focuses on race, disability and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She also writes for mainstream outlets, including a monthly column called “Pleasure Practices” in TONE Madison. Dr. Schalk identifies as a fat, Black, queer, disabled femme and a pleasure activist.
To learn more about and apply for these awards, visit the Grace Holt Memorial Award and Black Studies Departmental Award pages here: https://blst.uic.edu/resources-for-students/departmental-funding/grace-holt-awards-2/
To learn more about Dr. Grace Holt, visit her page here: https://blst.uic.edu/grace-holt/
For more information, please visit: https://blst.uic.edu/events/grace-holt-24/
Date posted
Feb 28, 2024
Date updated
Feb 28, 2024