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Thursday, July 3
 

2:30pm CDT

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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The U.S. school system has played an instrumental role in creating and upholding racial hierarchies, preparing children to expect unequal treatment throughout their lives. Join Eve L. Ewing and Bill Ayers for a discussion of the historical origins of white supremacy and racial hierarchy in the DNA of American schooling.
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Eve L. Ewing

Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919, the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, and a novel... Read More →
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Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers is the author, most recently, of When Freedom is the Question...
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
TBA
  Education Justice
 
Friday, July 4
 

3:00pm CDT

Labor and the Struggle for Higher Education
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Repression of student protests on campuses and existential defunding threats from the White House have combined to change the face of higher education and call into question its very future. Join us for a discussion of the current state of the movement to save and transform higher education through the power of labor and community activism.
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Jason Wozniak

Jason Wozniak is associate professor and Coordinator of the Transformative Education and Social Change program at West Chester University. He is a researcher and organizer with Debt Collective, and Founder and Co-Director of The Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES... Read More →
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Chenjerai Kumanyika

Chenjerai Kumanyika teaches nonfiction audio journalism and podcasting at New York University. He is the co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of Uncivil, a podcast on the Civil War and is the creator and host of the new podcast, Empire City, an eight-part narrative series... Read More →
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Gabriel Winant

Gabriel Winant is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago, a member of the executive council of AAUP/AFT Local 6741, a member of the Dissent editorial board, and author of The Next Shift... Read More →
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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Education Justice
 
Saturday, July 5
 

10:00am CDT

Community as Rebellion: Building Networks of Resistance Inside and Outside the University
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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How can we create alternative ways to be, create, and live in the face of relentless assaults on immigrants, women, queer and trans people, workers, and all the oppressed? We need radical community-building to defend people from the attacks we face, both inside and outside the university. And we must build networks of resistance, globally, that can foster collective learning for liberation.
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Lorgia García Peña

Lorgia García Peña is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar. Dr. García Peña is a Professor of Latinx Studies at the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and a Casey Foundation 2021 Freedom Scholar. She... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Education Justice

1:00pm CDT

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
In just the last few years, scores of states have introduced or passed legislation that would require teachers to lie to students about structural racism and other forms of oppression, with countless books cut from curricula and teachers fired or threatened. In the face of these relentless attacks on antiracist education, join educator Jesse Hagopian for a much-needed reckoning with the roots of this latest wave of censorship and an urgent call to action to defend education.
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Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian has taught in the public schools for over 20 years, serves on the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee, organizes for the Zinn Education Project, and founded the Ethnic Studies course at Seattle’s Garfield High School. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools... Read More →
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Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Education Justice, Intro

7:00pm CDT

The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
Book-banning, attacks on Critical Race Theory, Black Studies and Queer Studies, the use of state violence to repress dissent—we are experiencing a furious backlash against modest steps to make education accessible to all children and youth.  How should a broad movement for educational justice be framed and forged?
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Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers is the author, most recently, of When Freedom is the Question...
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Wayne Au

Wayne Au is a Professor in the University of Washington Bothell School of Educational Studies and an editor for Rethinking Schools.
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Davarian Baldwin

Davarian Baldwin is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, and the author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities.
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Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian has taught in the public schools for over 20 years, serves on the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee, organizes for the Zinn Education Project, and founded the Ethnic Studies course at Seattle’s Garfield High School. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools... Read More →
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Barbara Ransby

Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, professor, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, longtime Black Left feminist activist, and founding member of Scholars for Social Justice.
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David Stovall

David Stovall is a professor in the Department of Black Studies and in the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Education Justice
 
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