2024 Grace Holt Lecture and Celebration
April 18, 2024
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM Central Standard Time
Join us for our annual Grace Holt Lecture and Celebration! This event honors the tremendous work and legacy of Dr. Grace Holt, the founder and first director of the UIC Department of Black Studies. It also serves the purpose of engaging our community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni with emerging scholars and pressing issues in Black Studies as well as providing a space for reconnection and networking.
The 2024 Grace Holt Lecture and Celebration will take place in-person on April 18th, 2024 at 3:30pm CST in Student Center East (SCE), Room 301. The awards presentation, keynote lecture and Q&A will be live-streamed. Please RSVP to receive the livestream link.
Following the presentation of the 2024 Grace Holt Awards, Dr. Sami Schalk, will deliver the keynote address entitled: 504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party. Drawing from her book, Black Disability Politics, this talk will detail the Black Panther Party’s involvement in the 1977 504 Sit-in and discuss it as a historical example of how Black cultural workers have engaged with disability as a political issue in ways that have sometimes been obscured in Black studies and disability studies alike.
An in-person reception will follow the keynote and Q&A.
The 2024 Grace Holt Celebration is co-sponsored by the UIC Racialized Body Cluster, Black Cultural Center, Disability Cultural Center, and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.
COVID safety:
UIC does not require masking; however, we are asking that all attendees wear a mask. This is an accessibility measure for chronically ill/immunocompromised people and those living interdependently with them. Black Studies will have extra masks on hand the day of the event. During the reception, attendees will be able to unmask briefly to eat refreshments, but we ask that attendees seated for the lecture and Q&A wear a mask if this is accessible to them.
Access Information:
- CART (live captions) and ASL will be provided.
- HEPA filters provided by Clean Air Club.
- 301 SCE is located on the 3rd floor of Student Center East (SCE) Tower and is accessible by elevator. Directional signs will be posted on the day of the event.
- SCE is near the Blue Line, Roosevelt (#12) bus, Harrison (#7) bus, Halsted (#8) bus, and Taylor (#157) bus. There is a drop-off area on Halsted Street and the Halsted and Taylor Street Parking Structure (760 W Taylor Street) is located across the street at Halsted & Polk. More information on parking and public transit can be accessed here: https://meetings.uic.edu/about-us/directions-and-parking/#parking.
- SCE has all-gender and accessible restrooms available, though many do not have automatic doors.
- Contact blst@uic.edu with any other access questions or requests. Black Studies staff will be available during the event for access requests.
Date posted
Dec 15, 2023
Date updated
Mar 8, 2024
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