SEPTEMER 2011
September 8, 12pm - 1pm
330 CUPPA Hall, 412 S. Peoria Street
Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar (Occupational Therapy) and Lindsay Jones (Occupational Therapy)
"Obesity Among Latino & African American Youth: An Ecological & Cultural Perspective"
Race and Public Policy Brown Bag SeriesSeptember 22, 1:30pm-3:30pm
330 CUPPA Hall, 412 S. Peoria Street
Grants! Grants! Grants! How to Fund Your Research on Race/Ethnicity at UIC
A workshop for UIC FacultySeptember 26, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
UIC Student Center East, Room 302
Ruthie Gilmore (Geography, CUNY)
The Director's Signature Series Lecture
OCTOBER 2011
October 6, 4pm - 7:30pm
UIC Student Center East, Room 302
Phillip J. Bowman (Education, University of Michigan; Director, National Center for Institutional Diversity)
"Institutionalizing Diversity in Higher Education:
National Issues and Role for UIC-IRRPP in the 21st Century"
The Inaugural Phillip J. Bowman Critical Issues Lecture on Race and Public PolicyOctober 13, 12pm - 1pm
330 CUPPA Hall, 412 S. Peoria Street
Sabine French (Psychology)
"Racial Socialization and Biracial Identity Development in Mixed-Race Families"
Race and Public Policy Brown Bag Series
NOVEMBER 2011
November 10, 12pm - 1pm
330 CUPPA Hall, 412 S. Peoria Street
Claudia Hernandez (Dermatology)
"Skin Cancer Disparities"
Race and Public Policy Brown Bag SeriesNovember 16, 12pm - 2pm
Latino Cultural Center, LC B2
Zona Abierta: DREAMing of Higher Education
Co-Sponsored by IRRPPNovember 17, 3pm - 5pm
UIC Student Center East, Room 302
Pedro Noguera (New York University) and Waldo Johnson (University of Chicago)
Race and Public Policy Practicum on Black and Latino Males
Please RSVP here
DECEMBER 2011
December 8 , 8am - 6pm
UIC School of Public Health , 1603 W. Taylor
Immigrant Health Research Conference
Please register here
Co-Sponsored by IRRPP
JANUARY 2012
January 12, 12pm - 1pm
330 CUPPA Hall, 412 S. Peoria Street
Philip Ashton (Urban Planning and Policy), Ralph Cintron (English), and Glenda Garelli (Urban Planning and Policy)
"Captive Labor, Mobile Capital and Migrants' Lives: Remittances as Global Commodities"
Race and Public Policy Brown Bag SeriesJanuary 18, 12pm - 1:15pm
UIC Department of Sociology, 4th Floor Behavioral Sciences Building
Beth Richie (Director, IRRPP)
Race, Ethnicity, and Public Sociology Lecture
Public Sociology Colloquium Series
Co-Sponsored by IRRPP
FEBRUARY 2012
February 1
Latino Cultural Center, Lecture Center B2
"Yo Soy El Army" (Film Screening)
Co-Sponsored by IRRPPFebruary 2, 3pm - 5pm
302 Student Center East
Dean Spade (Seattle University School of Law), Andrea Ritchie (Police Misconduct Attorney), and Joey Mogul (DePaul University School of Law)
"Crime and Punishment: The Attack on Queer, Trans, and People of Color"
Race and Sexuality SeriesFebruary 9, 12pm - 1pm
330 CUPPA Hall, 412 S. Peoria Street
Matthew Hall (Sociology)
"Immigration and Residential Sorting in New Destinations”
Race and Public Policy Brown Bag SeriesFebruary 24
Student Center West
Minority Health in the Midwest Conference
Co-Sponsored by IRRPPFebruary 29, 10:30am - 12pm
Location: Institute for the Humanities
Ruth Behar (University of Michigan)
Seminar on Race, Ethnicity, and Narrative Academic Writing
Race and Narrative Non-Fiction Working Group Seminar
MARCH 2012
March 1
Location: TBD
"Out Rage 69" (Film Screening)
Race and Sexuality SeriesMarch 8, 12pm - 1pm
330 CUPPA Hall, 412 S. Peoria Street
Anna Guevarra (Asian American Studies)
"Collective Historicizing with Filipino Communities in Chicago"
Race and Public Policy Brown Bag SeriesMarch 12
Location: TBD
Alyeshia Galvez (Lehman College)
"Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care and the Birth-Weight Paradox”
Co-Organized by IRRPP and the Latin American & Latino Studies ProgramMarch 15, 2pm-4pm
330 CUPPA Hall, 412 S. Peoria Street
Grants! Grants! Grants! How to Fund Your Research on Race/Ethnicity at UIC
A workshop for Graduate StudentsMarch 29
330 CUPPA Hall, 412 S. Peoria Street
Erica Meiners (Northeastern University)
Visiting Scholar LectureMarch 30-31
Location TBD
Bayard Rustin Centennial Events
Presented by UIC's Gender and Sexuality Center
Co-Sponsored by IRRPP's Race and Sexuality Series
APRIL 2012
April 4 , 12pm - 1:15pm
UIC Department of Sociology, 4th Floor Behavioral Sciences Building
Javier Auyero (University of Texas, Austin)
Race, Ethnicity, and Public Sociology Lecture
Public Sociology Colloquium Series
Co-Sponsored by IRRPPApril 12, 12pm - 1pm
330 CUPPA Hall, 412 S. Peoria Street
Pamela Anne Quiroz (Educational Policy Studies)
"Marketing Diversity & the New Politics of Desegregation: An Urban Education Ethnography"
Race and Public Policy Brown Bag SeriesApril 14
Location: TBD
14th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference
Co-Sponsored by IRRPP
