Past Programs September 2006-April 2007
Past Programs September 2006-April 2007
September 2006-May 2007
Bodymaps
Date: September 5 – October 13, 2006
Opening reception: Thursday September 7, 2006 5 -8-pm
Location: C33 Gallery, 33 E. Congress Parkway
Partners: David Krut Galleries, CCC Office of the Provost, [C] Spaces
In conjunction with the Office of the Provost’s college-wide Critical Encounters initiative, the Institute presented an exhibition of life-size self portraits of women who, by mapping and documenting their lives and their illness, invite us to name and identify HIV+ people of South Africa. Bodymaps is a traveling exhibition of art works created by the Bambanani Women, a group of women living with HIV and AIDS from the Kahyelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa. These artworks were developed from the Memory Box Project, a community engaged program initiated by the University of Cape Town and Medecins Sans Frontieres, in response to the growing number of South Africans living with HIV and AIDS. This exhibition was brought to the Institute in partnership with David Krut Galleries of New York and South Africa. Also available was the accompanying book Long Life- Positive HIV Stories, which illustrates and profiles the lives of the Bambanani Women's Group, the Bodymaps artists.
Body as Art: Politics, Gender, and Culture Public Panel Discussion (as part of the Critical Encounters Initiative)
Date: September 20, 2006, 6-7:30pm
Location: Ferguson Hall, Columbia College Chicago, 600 S. Michigan
Partners: Liberal Education Department, Columbia College Chicago, POLVO, RadioArte, and SAIC Visiting Artists Program and Performance Department
The Institute co-presented the Body as Art: Politics, Gender and Culture public panel discussion with the Liberal Education Department, SAIC Visiting Artist and Performance Department, POLVO, and RadioArte. The dialogue investigated the relationships and intersections of gender, politics, and culture as it relates to the body, art, activism, and HIV/AIDS/Health. Participants included visual and performance artists Sonia Baez-Hernandez and Tracey Rose, Outreach Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Colin Almeleh, and moderator Hamza Walker, Director of Education and Associate Curator at The Renaissance Society.
BitchFEST Reading, Discussion and Book Signing
Date: September 28, 2006, 5:30-7pm
Location: Ferguson Hall, Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan
Partners: Women and Gender Studies Program, Journalism Department, Columbia College Chicago, and YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
The first issue of Bitch Magazine was published in January 1996 as a photocopied and stapled zine that was a feminist response to pop culture. Ten years later it has grown into a public forum for discourse on the state of women in our culture and has become one of the most provocative places to voice one’s critical thoughts, guilty pleasures, dissatisfactions, and de-code mainstream media. Bitch founders Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler read from their latest book BitchFest, an anthology of the best writing in Bitch’s 10 year history, along with new pieces, including the Forward from comedienne Margaret Cho. Following the reading was a moderated discussion and then a book signing.
Reeling Film Festival- the Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival- Movie Screening and Panel Discussion
Date: November 4, 2006, 12-3:30pm
Location: Film Row Cinema, Columbia College, 1104 S. Wabash
Partner: Reeling Film Festival
The Institute co-sponsored the movie screenings of two films Boy I Am directed by Sam Feder and FtF: Female to Femme directed by Kami Chisholm, as part of this year’s Reeling Film Festival. Boy I Am is a compelling and provocative look at the place of trans issues within the larger queer community. This riveting documentary focuses on the lives of three transmen as they prepare for their transitions and questions how the emergence of female to male visibility affects the dyke community from which they have come. Their stories serve as the backdrop for smart and provocative interviews with leading gender theorists, journalists, activists, lawyers, and professors. FtF celebrates dyke femme identities and an understanding of femininity as multiple rather than singular, constructed rather than natural, and as potentially radical on someone “born female” as masculinity, which has lately been given a great deal of privilege in the dyke community. Following the screening was a public panel discussion including directors Feder and Chisolm and a diverse audience of over 100 people, addressing perspectives of gender identity, trans/identity issues, and dyke feminism.
A Conversation with Human Rights Activist Veronica Cruz
Date: November 10, 2006, 1:45pm
Location: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S. Halsted
Partners: Human Rights Watch, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, International Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Latin American and Latino Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago
The Institute co-presented a conversation with Veronica Cruz, a leading Mexican women’s rights advocate and founder and head of Las Libres (The Free Women), the only organization in the conservative state of Guanajuato to help rape victims access safe abortion. Elena Gutierrez from UIC’s Gender and Women’s Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies programs took part in the conversation with an audience comprised of students from multiple educational institutions.
The Lola Project (TLP)
Date: November 16-18, 2006, 8pm
Location: HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo
Partners: A Sordid Collective, Office of GLBT Student Concerns, Columbia College Chicago and dykediva.com
A Sordid Collective produced The Lola Project, a part burlesque part drag king performance that invited the audience to trace the connections and divergences around and among ten feisty characters as they traversed early-twentieth century Chicago. The Lola Project explores themes of gender, class, privilege, desire, culture, and mass communication while keeping a beat to a campy, steamy rhythm.
Gender Based Violence in a Global Context: A Chicago Discussion
Date: November 20, 2006, 6-8pm
Location: Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Avenue
Partners: WE-ACTx Rwanda, Heartland Alliance, Marjorie Kovler Center, Hektoen Institute, Crossroads Fund, Chicago Foundation for Women, University of Illinois at Chicago International Studies Program, Roosevelt University
This program included a distinguished panel discussing issues of human rights, gender-based violence, and health care on the occasion of the “To Live Again” Project: Rwandan Survivors of Genocide photography exhibit, which was open for viewing during the discussion. The audience was comprised of a majority of students from the multiple educational institutions, health workers, activists, direct service providers, media representatives, and scholars.
Panelists
Natalie Bennett, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies, DePaul University
Cathy Christeller, Executive Director, Chicago Women’s AIDS Project
Marge Cohen, M.D. Director of Women's HIV Research, CORE Center
Dori Dinsmore, Midwest Regional Director, Amnesty International USA
Mary Fabri, Ph.D., Director of the Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture
Lynette Jackson, Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and African American Studies, Chair of the International Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University
Institute’s Faculty Fellowship, Professor Stephanie Shonekan
Date: Winter 2006
Location: Institute
Lioness of Lisabi Project
Faculty member Stephanie Shonekan, Director of the Black World Studies Department at Columbia College is the Winter 2006 Institute Faculty Fellow. She has been working on the development of her screenplay/musical Lioness of Lisabi about the life of women’s rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the mother of Nigerian afrobeat creator and artist, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
25 years of HIV/AIDS from a Gender Perspective
Date: December 5, 2006
Location: Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Avenue
Partners: Crossroads Fund, Chicago Women’s AIDS Project, WE-ACTx Rwanda, Mansfield Institute for Social Justice at Roosevelt University, Chicago Foundation for Women
This year marked the 25th year of the AIDS epidemic. In remembrance of this history and in support of current HIV/AIDS activism, the Institute joined with Crossroads Fund, Chicago Women’s AIDS Project, WE-ACTx Rwanda, Mansfield Institute for Social Justice at Roosevelt University, and the Chicago Foundation for Women to co-present a program that included a distinguished panel discussing issues around HIV/AIDS and health care in the context of race, class, and gender on the occasion of the “To Live Again” Project: Rwandan Survivors of Genocide, a photo and oral history exhibit, which was open for viewing during the discussion. The audience was comprised of a majority of students from the multiple educational institutions, health workers, activists, direct service providers, media representatives, and scholars.
Panelists
Cathy Cohen, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Mardge Cohen, Director, Women’s HIV Research, CORE Center: Connections Between Local and Global HIV Activism
Chris Curry, Student AIDS activist: Students Take Action Against the AIDS Pandemic
Debra Flemming, Local HIV Activist: Community Responses to HIV/AIDS
Keith Green, Black Gay Men’s Caucus: Community Responses to HIV/AIDS
Moderator Cathy Christeller, Executive Director, Chicago Women’s AIDS Project
Execution of Justice, production by About Face Theatre
Date: January 10-February 18, 2007
Location: Victory Gardens Theatre
Partner: About Face Theatre
The Institute and About Face Theatre are continuing their collaboration as educational partners. Their current partnership is an outgrowth of About Face Theatre’s production of Execution of Justice. The play, written by award winning playwright Emily Mann and directed by Gary Griffin, investigates the assassination in 1978 of San Francisco Supervisor, Harvey Milk (the first openly gay politician ever elected to high office) and Mayor George Moscone (who supported gay rights) by former City Supervisor Dan White. The verdict was sensational. Dan White was convicted of manslaughter rather than first-degree murder and sentenced to just seven years in prison.
Discussion with South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs
Date: January 26, 2007
Location: Ferguson Hall, Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan Avenue
The Institute was pleased to have Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky introduce South Africa Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs who spoke on democracy, human rights, gender, architecture, and arts and culture. He conducted a virtual tour of the award-winning Constitutional Court of South Africa, which was built in the heart of the Old Fort Prison where both Gandhi and Mandela had been imprisoned. United States Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has described the building as “the most beautiful court building that she has seen in the world.” The new book about the court, Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa were available for sale.
Institute Student Fellowship
Date: January 2007
Location: Institute
Misty DeBerry, “J” Term Student Fellow, January 2007 Columbia College graduate student in Inter-Media Arts Misty DeBerry was the Institute’s Student Fellow throughout January during Columbia’s J-term. During the three week “J” Term Fellowship Misty began creating and shaping an intimate narrative. This multi-media investigation will attempt to confront and explore the personal and spiritual ramifications of sexual assault and violence by focusing on 25 individual nights through photo-documentation and writing. The work could ultimately take the form of a reading and performance, or an anthology as well as an interdisciplinary physical presentation which will take place at the Institute at a future date.
2nd Annual Women and Hip-Hop
Date: February 8, 2007, 6-9pm
Location: HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo
Partners: Black World Studies Department, Women and Gender Studies Program, Columbia College Chicago and the HotHouse
For the 2nd Annual Women and Hip-Hop program, the Institute invited socially conscious performers Psalm One and Ang13 and Unmuvabo Vendetta of the Wonda Women Project. They were joined by JaMiss, a Hip-Hop artist and Latonea Miller, a Spoken Word artist that were selected from the Columbia College student and alumni community. Following the performance was a discussion on issues of gender and representation in Hip-Hop music and videos as well as a special CD release party for the Wonda Women.
Beyond Media Education- Film Screening and Discussion of “Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” and “Why They Gotta Do Me Like That: The Empowered Fe Fes Take on Bullying”
Date: February 13, 2007, 5:30-8:30pm
Location: Conaway Center, Columbia College, 1104 S. Wabash
Partners: Beyond Media Education, Access Living
The Institute partnered with Beyondmedia Education and the Empowered Fe Fes, the young women’s group of Access Living to co-sponsor a screening of two films: “Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” and “Why They Gotta Do Me Like That: The Empowered Fe Fes Take on Bullying” (made by the Junior Fe Fes) followed by a discussion and reception. Through this partnership, the audience was comprised of a diverse population from across the city for this lively and important program.
Beyondmedia Education’s mission is to collaborate with underserved and underrepresented women, youth, and communities to tell their stories and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of media arts.
Access Living is a cross disability organization governed and staffed by a majority of people with disabilities. Access Living fosters the dignity, pride, and self-esteem of people with disabilities, and enhances the options available to them so that they may choose and maintain individualized and satisfying lifestyles.
Pulp, production by About Face Theatre
Date: March 7-April 15, 2007
Location: Victory Gardens Theatre
Partner: About Face Theatre
The Institute and About Face Theatre are collaborating as educational partners. This particular partnership in March was based on About Face Theatre’s production of Pulp.
Pulp is an homage to the sultry, jazzy world of 1950’s lesbian pulp fiction. Following some scandalous encounters on a Texas military base, the lead character Terry heads for Chicago and The Well, a club for women who love women, where forbidden desire lurks behind every innuendo. Featuring a jazzy score and sensational cabaret acts, this playfully steamy comedy was originally produced by About Face in 2004, and was remounted with the original cast in response to overwhelming demand from the audience base.
Resistance & Social Movements: The Ongoing Fight for Freedom
Date: April 7, 2007 1:30-4:30pm
Location: The DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 E. 56th Place
Partners: Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council; The DuSable Museum of African American History; African and Black Diaspora Studies, DePaul University; Mansfield Institute for Social Justice, Roosevelt University; Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago; Urban Studies Program, Associated Colleges of the Midwest; Center for African-American History, Northwestern University
The Institute was proud to co-sponsor with the Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council a special exhibition tour and presentation by Dr. Manning Marable at the DuSable Museum of African American History. The program began with a tour of the nationally-acclaimed exhibition, "381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story," chronicling the hardship and courage of thousands of African Americans who successfully challenged a segregated bus system to open its doors to equality. After touring the exhibit, Dr. Marable explored the history of the civil rights era and its lessons for current movements struggling for equality. Marable is a Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University in New York City. Following the presentation, attendees participated in small, facilitated discussions to share reflections on the exhibition and presentation, and explore the history and future of social justice organizing.
Gender Fusions 3: Gender-Go-Round on the Playground
Date: April 17, 2007 6-11pm
Location: HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo
Partners: Columbia College's Office of GLBT Students Concerns & Q-Force
The Institute co-presented Gender Fusions 3, the third annual night of queer performance and community dialogue, featuring renowned transgender activist Leslie Feinberg, a panel discussion with scholars, writers and activists about the notion of play, a performance by Leslie and the Lys, and a spectacle of drag, burlesque, spoken word, theatre, dance and song from a host of performers at Columbia College and throughout the city.
The panel discussion was moderated by Jane M. Saks and featured E. Patrick Johnson (Chair of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and author of "Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Black Gay Men of the South"), Sam Park (Faculty in the English Department at Columbia College), Red Tremmel (Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Chicago and documentary director and producer), and Lewis Wallace (Columbia College student as well as grassroots community organizer and sex educator).
The mission of Gender Fusions is to produce an annual performance event that creates a queer cultural space and forges a strong, active, vibrant queer community at Columbia College Chicago. Through this program, the partners work toward creating queer and tranny visibility on campus; initiating thoughtful and critical dialogue; building bridges between queer students, staff and faculty at Columbia; and drawing upon the larger Chicago queer community to infuse, energize, and catalyze Columbia's creative and critical community of learners, teachers and workers.
Genetics and Identity: Who Are You?
Date: April 18, 2007 6-8pm
Location: Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Bederman Auditorium, 618 S. Michigan
Partners: Illinois Humanities Council, American Medical Association, Center on Halsted
The Institute partnered with the Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) on a year-long series of public programs about genetics. The series consists of 25 programs statewide in a variety of formats: film, lectures, debates, art presentations, etc. This program was the first of two the Institute will partner with and participate in. The programs take place in the Chicago metro area and are complemented by programs developed locally with other communities throughout Illinois.
This installment focuses on the subject of gender and identity. Identity is shaped by a myriad of factors. To what extent do our perceptions of our genes affect our perceptions of ourselves and others? Can new information from genetic testing challenge long-held notions related to race, gender, sexual orientation, personality, or ethnic identity? How might genetic testing be used to include or exclude people from certain groups?
The discussion was moderated by Harry Porterfield, Emmy award-winning reporter who joined ABC7 News in September of 1985 after 21 years at WBBM-TV in Chicago and the panelists included Troy Duster, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University; Michelle Goodwin, JD, LLM, Wicklander Chair in Ethics and professor of law at DePaul College of Law and Director of the Health Law Institute and the Center for the Study of Race & Bioethics; Blase N. Polite, M.D., Medical Oncologist at the University of Chicago and an Affiliate Member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research at the University of Chicago and a member of the Strategy Team for California Breast Cancer Research Program's Special Research Initiatives.
OUT at CHM: Gays in the Revolution: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Chicago
Date: April 19, 2007 5:30pm Cocktails, 6:00pm Program
Location: Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark Street
Partners: Chicago History Museum; Center on Halsted; University of Illinois at Chicago Gender and Women's Studies Department; and the Weinberg College of Art and Sciences at Northwestern University
The Institute was proud to be a co-sponsor of the OUT at CHM series in 2007, exploring the history of LGBT art, politics and culture in Chicago. In this installment, attendees learned about Chicago's lesbian and gay liberation movement from the people who led it. Chicago's rich history of gay activism from the late 1960s to the mid-70s remains largely unwritten and mostly forgotten. But two years before the Stonewall Riots in New York City, activists here were using the phrase "gay power." Local gay men and lesbians participated in militant protests and students from many Chicago campuses fought for the right of same-sex couples to dance and socialize in public. Local lesbians published Lavendar Women, one of the most influential lesbian-feminist newspapers in the United States. Chicago was one of only three cities to inaugurate "Pride" marches on the first anniversary of Stonewall, a tradition that continues today.
Panelists in this program included Vernita Gray (an activist for gay and lesbian rights in Chicago since 1969 and the GLBT Liasion for the Cook County State Attorney's Office), Murray Edelman (founder of the Chicago Gay Liberation Movement that began in 1969), Margaret Wilson (retired schoolteacher and gay and women's rights activist since 1967), and John D'Emilio (Professor in the History and Gender & Women's Studies Programs at the University of Illinois at Chicago).
She Speaks Volumes Panel Discussion: Where Do We Draw the Line? Creative Expression vs. Perpetuation of a Rape Culture
Date: April 26, 2007 noon-1:30pm
Location: Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash, 1st Floor
Partner: YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
She Speaks Volumes is the cornerstone of the "Arts, Advocacy, and Activism" collaboration between the Institute and the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, addressing issues of violence against girls and women during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
The first of this two-part program involved a panel discussion, "Where Do We Draw the Line? Creative Expression vs. the Perpetuation of a Rape Culture." Creative expression represents one's ideas, opinions and personal views as illustrated through various art forms: music, poetry, writing, film, etc. For artists, having the right to express his/her self through their artistry is what drives their passion. However, some forms of creative expression stimulate covert and overt messages of sexual violence, which in turn can have an effect on the perpetuation of a rape culture. Moderated by Misty DeBerry, the panel will feature members of spoken word trio Diva Diction (Bassey, Amalia Ortiz, Ishle Park) and local female Hip-Hop emcees Ang13 and Unmuvabo Vendetta. To listen, visit the link below:
http://chicagopublicradio.org/Program_AMP_Segment.aspx?segmentID=10643.
She Speaks Volumes, Poetry Slam with Diva Diction
Date: April 26, 2007 6-8pm
Location: HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo
Partner: YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
She Speaks Volumes is the cornerstone of the "Arts, Advocacy, and Activism" collaboration between the Institute and YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, addressing issues of violence against girls and women during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
The second of this two-part program involved a poetry slam performance by the powerful and profound Diva Diction, a female multi-racial spoken word ensemble. The program drew a very diverse audience from across the city to honor survivors of sexual assault and show how art and activism can be fused together to impact social change. The program included Community, Artist and Activist Awards for individuals whose work demonstrates a commitment to anti-violence and social justice; Mary Jo Barrett (Executive Director and Co-Founder, Center for Contextual Change); C.C. Carter (artist and Founder, Pow-Wow Inc.); and Kathy Kempke (Coordinator of Prevention Education, YWCA South Suburban Center). To listen, visit the link below:
http://chicagopublicradio.org/Program_AMP_Segment.aspx?segmentID=10965.
Gender & Hip Hop Community Dialogue Film Screening & Discussion
Date: April 27, 2007 6-9pm
Location: Doc Films at the University of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall, Max Palevsky Theatre, 1212 East 59th Street
Partners: Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago
The Institute and Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago co-presented a two-day program addressing issues of gender, gender identity and representation in Hip-Hop music and videos. The first day will present a screening of the documentary film Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, followed by a discussion with Director Byron Hurt and other featured guests. In his film, award-winning producer and director Byron Hurt exposes and explores the structures of violence, hyper-aggression and misogyny in much of today's Hip-Hop, interviewing a number of prominent artists and producers along the way, including Chuck D, Mos Def, Jadakiss, and Russell Simmons. Following the screening was a panel discussion moderated by Cathy Cohen (Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago), featuring Byron Hurt along with Natalie Hopkinson and Natalie Y. Moore (co-authors of Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation) and Stephanie Shonekan (Professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies; Director, Black World Studies Program, Columbia College Chicago).
Gender & Hip-Hop Community Dialogue: Does Hip-Hop Hate Women?
Date: April 28, 2007 1-3pm
Location: International House Assembly Hall, University of Chicago, 1414 East 59th Street
Partner: Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago
The Institute and Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago co-presented a two-day program addressing issues of gender, gender identity and representation in Hip-Hop music and videos. The second day featured a panel and community roundtable addressing the question "Does Hip-Hop Hate Women?" Moderated by Bakari Kitwana (co-founder of the first ever National Hip-Hop Political Convention and author of Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop), the panel featured TJ Crawford (co-founder and Chairman of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention), David Ikard (Assistant Professor in English at the University of Tennessee and creator of the first Hip-Hop course taught at the University); Joan Morgan (award winning journalist and author of When Chickenheads Come to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Femininst); Mark Anthony Neal (Associate Professor of Black Popular Culture at Duke University and author of New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity), Amina Norman-Hawkins (writer, activist, Hip-Hop emcee, and Executive Director of the Chicago Hip-Hop Initiative), and Tracy Sharpley-Whiting (Director of the Black World Studies Program at Vanderbilt University and author of Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Young Black Women, Hip-Hop and the New Gender Politics). To listen, visit http://chicagopublicradio.org/Program_AMP_Segment.aspx?segmentID=10969.
Genetics and Race: How Does Race Matter?
Date: May 23, 2007
Location: The DuSable Museum of African-American History, 740 E. 56th Place, Chicago
Partners: Illinois Humanities Council, National Society of Genetic Counselors, American Medical Association, The Historymakers, DuSable Museum of African-American History, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, Spertus Museum, and Community Renewal Society
The Institute partnered with the Illinois Humanities Council on a year-long series of public programs about genetics. The series consists of 25 programs statewide in a variety of formats: film, lectures, debates, art presentations, etc. The programs take place in the Chicago metro area and are complemented by programs developed locally with other communities throughout Illinois.
The installment focused on new research that aims to identify shared genetic markers that challenges some traditional concepts of race and ethnicity, and may reinforce others. Do the results of this research reduce people to a set of genetic traits, perpetuate old forms of discrimination, and put certain populations at risk for further oppression? How do we ensure that racial and ethnic groups maintain self-definition and self-control as genetic science advances.
The discussion was moderated by Laura Washington (Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor, DePaul University ad contributing columnist, Chicago Sun-Times) and featured Timothy F. Murphy, Ph.D. (Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research) and Sloan Williams, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Anthropology Department, University of Illinois at Chicago).