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.

DAY ONE:

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

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30pm 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

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

Thursday, April 29, 2021 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 pm 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