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Alternate Realities and Virtual Worlds
Care @ Chicago
Civil Islam Initiative
Closeted/Out into the Quadrangles

Contexts of Coalition
Connection with ladies
Feminist Theory
Gender, Sex and Global Capitalism
Later Liberalism Venture
Lesbian & Gay Studies
Precarious Citizenship
Pre-modern Body Project
Queer Latina/o Studies Lecture Series
Intimate Violence on Campus
Sexualities in Africa while the African Diaspora
Sexuality and Gender into the Age of Global Politics
Social Media Marketing Venture
Women in Science

Alternate Realities and Virtual Worlds

This task will likely to be arranged around utilizing games, technology fiction and worlds that are virtual start conversations about sex, and sexualities. Within the last a long period, experimental and indie video gaming, along with analog genres such as for example tabletop and live-action role-playing games, have actually emerged as a novel method for engaging with problems such as for instance despair, transgender identities, anxiety, addiction, transgender and queer identities, homophobia, and violence that is sexual. In this task, we are going to ask undergraduate pupils, graduate pupils, and faculty to be involved in a number of events that concentrate on play as a kind of inquiry into questions of world-building and negotiating social distinction.

Care @ Chicago

Care@Chicago, a set arranged because of the guts for the research of Gender and sex (CSGS) and co-sponsored because of the guts for the analysis of Race, Politics, and customs, will run through the thirty days of February 2017.

The University of Chicago is connected more with rigor, aspiration and social unit than care and caring: care is usually connected with ladies and feelings, usually delegated towards the economically hyper-exploited, rather than usually considered main to your lifetime of tips. But however unevenly distributed, vulnerability, anxiety, and compensations for them are everywhere inside our instant in addition to bigger environment that is cultural.

Care@Chicago will investigate structural stressors and reparative acts and techniques for folks and communities within the world that is contemporary.

2018

Wednesday, February 7 at 7:00pm Pleasures of Intercourse Workshop available to UChicago students that are undergraduate

Monday, February 12 at 6:00pm Valentine’s learn Break

Wednesday, February 14 at 5:00pm Care and Self-Care as scientists

2017

Friday, February 10 – all-day Care@Chicago Day – a complete day’s self- and community-care tasks for pupils and staff that include a conversation with psychological state professionals, yoga, treats, and crafts, including a session on making “valentines towards the future”

Civil Islam Initiative

The Civil Islam Initiative operates development, conferences, and courses to provide the requirements of an ever growing Muslim pupil human body and also to raise critical dialogue to facilitate understanding and respect regarding modern dilemmas Islamophobia-industry among academics, activists, news, policymakers, and public in the Ummah & between your Ummah and Western contexts. As the Bush and Obama administrations have actually highlighted Islam as being a faith of comfort and Muslims in the usa as calm residents, legislation and policies passed away and supported under their administrations over (Muslim) charitable giving, wire-tapping, surveillance, involuntary enrollment of males from Muslim bulk nations, and so forth, illustrate the ambiguous host to Muslims in the us. With 6-8 million Muslims in America and record figures tangled up in civic solution, the requirement to comprehend and engage this populace when confronted with increasing distrust and also hostility towards Islam is a must. The Initiative addresses the next concerns: which are the ways Islam has played an official or role that is informal governmental, financial, and social life in the usa, and just how have actually federal and state governments, civil culture companies, and individuals ‘on the floor’ responded? Provided the rich civically involved work of numerous Muslim-American groups, how do Muslim Americans facilitate the country’s domestic and international policies specially with regards to Muslim-majority nations? Because ladies are main to your general general general public image and spiritual and social expressions of Islam in the usa and abroad, and due to the fact functions of Muslim ladies are generally speaking restricted in spiritual leadership but expansive in civic leadership, CSGS is well-positioned to lead this programmatic work.

Piloted in 2012-2013, the Initiative held events on the Anti-sharia motion, Anti Muslim narrative in Hollywood, Intra-faith discussion, Muslim civic leaders to interact abroad, US Foreign policy aftereffects of social media marketing gone viral, along with other subjects. The reach associated with Initiative happens to be domestic and international: 300+ Chicagoans attend, Dr. Jamal has encouraged President Obama’s staff and been invited to offer Testimony that is congressional target un. CII recorded lectures have now been utilized and accessed by 500+ leaders in federal government, news, legislation, policy, education from the united states, center East, Africa, Asia.

UChicago lovers consist of: the school, Rockefeller Chapel, Divinity class, Law class, Department of Political Science, Center for center Eastern Studies. External lovers consist of: Austrian Consulate General, Unity Productions Foundation, Harran Productions, Whitecloud Press, Institute for personal Policy & Understanding, McKinsey Asia.