Apr 22 2025

2025 Grace Holt Celebration

April 22 - 24, 2025

Address

Chicago, IL 60607

invitation graphic. painting of grace holt. black background with sparkles and bubbles. Grace Holt 2025, save the date, April 22 - 24.

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 community.

Each year, we uphold Grace Holt's commitment to Black Studies and celebrate our community through a keynote presentation, series of community and scholarly events, and recognition of students. The theme for the 2025 Grace Holt Celebration is Black Solidarity Politics. This year’s Grace Holt Lecture is the culminating event in a semester- long focus on scholarship, activism and arts pertaining to the politics of solidarity in the Black diaspora.

This year, the keynote lecturer is Dr. Nisrin Elamin, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto. Dr. Elamin's keynote lecture is entitled "Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War."

The lecture and all related program are co-sponsored by the Global Middle East Studies program.

A detailed description of the 2025 Grace Holt program is provided below.

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Contact

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Date posted

Mar 20, 2025

Date updated

Apr 9, 2025

Speakers

Dr. Nisrin Elamin | Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies | University of Toronto