The term “reckoning” denotes acts of calculation, estimation and debts paid. It can carry a sense of 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?

Racial Reckonings and the Future of the Humanities is the inaugural conference of the Centering Race Consortium (CRC), a collaboration generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation between the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) at Brown University, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago, and the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) at Yale University. Please register attend. 

DAY ONE (view full symposium program)

I. Wednesday April 28, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. EDT
Welcome by CRC Directors

• Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor of Theatre and Performance Art, Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
• Stephen Pitti, Professor of History and of American Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration, Yale University
• C. Riley Snorton, Professor of English Language and Literature, Interim Faculty Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, the University of Chicago
• Tricia Rose, Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University

II. Wednesday, April 28, 2021 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT
Race and the Transformation of Disciplines, A Faculty Roundtable

• Roderick Ferguson, Professor of Womens, Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies, Yale University
• Matthew Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies, Chair of American Studies, Brown University
• Marci Kwon, Assistant Professor, Art and Art History, Stanford University
• Teresa Montoya, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2021, the University of Chicago
• Noémie Ndiaye, Assistant Professor of English, the University of Chicago

DAY TWO

III. Thursday, April 29, 2021 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT
CRC Directors’ Roundtable on Institutionalizing Critical Race Studies

• Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor of Theatre and Performance Art, Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
• Stephen Pitti, Professor of History and of American Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration, Yale University
• C. Riley Snorton, Professor of English Language and Literature, Interim Faculty Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, the University of Chicago
• Tricia Rose, Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University
• Ato Quayson, Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor of English, Stanford University

IV. Thursday, April 29, 2021 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT
Closing Plenary: CSRPC Annual Public Lecture presents Reginald Dwyane Betts, in conversation with Eve L. Ewing

• Organized by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago
• Co-presented by the Pozen Family Center Human Rights Lab and Mass Incarceration Working Group