The term “reckoning” denotes acts of calculation, estimation and debts paid. It can carry a sense of a future settlements. It also refers to “ideas, opinions and judgments” as in the phrase, “I reckon.” To what extent, and how, might we imagine a racial reckoning via new work in arts and humanities?
The recently formed Centering Race Consortium brings together researchers at four institutions: Brown, Stanford, the University of Chicago and Yale to “center” racial justice in the pursuit of humanistic inquiry. Our work is supported by the Mellon Foundation.
DAY ONE
Wednesday April 28, 2021:
I. 3:00pm EDT: Welcome by CRC Directors
- Stephen Pitti (Yale)
- Jennifer DeVere Brody (Stanford)
- C. Riley Snorton (UChicago)
- Tricia Rose (Brown)
II. 3:15pm EDT: “Race and the Transformation of Disciplines, A Faculty Roundtable”
- Matt Guterl (Brown)
- Rod Ferguson (Yale)
- Marci Kwon (Stanford)
- Noémie Ndiaye (UChicago)
- Teresa Montoya (UChicago)
DAY TWO
Thursday, April 29, 2021:
III. 3:00pm EDT: Directors’ Roundtable on “Institutionalizing Critical Race Studies”
- Jennifer DeVere Brody
- C. Riley Snorton
- Stephen Pitti
- Tricia Rose
- Moderator: Ato Quayson (Stanford)
IV. 5:30pm EDT: CSRPC Annual Public Lecture: Reading by Reginald Dwayne Betts and conversation with Eve L. Ewing
- Organized by University of Chicago
- Co-presented by Pozen Family Center Human Rights Lab and Mass Incarceration Working Group
