Apr 22 2025

Workshop: Public Scholarship and Organizing within and beyond the Confines of the Academy

2025 Grace Holt Celebration

April 22, 2025

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Central Standard Time

Location

1250 UH

Address

601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607

This interactive workshop will engage students in a discussion of what public scholarship can look like and why it can be important to think, speak and write for audiences beyond the academy. It will also explore the link between public scholarship and research in service of communities and organizing outside the academy? Finally, we will discuss the limitations and challenges of engaging in public scholarship within the context of institutions which value individual output and productivity over collective labor and organizing. Students will receive practical tips and engage with examples of public scholarship by scholars across N. America and beyond.

This event is a part of the 2025 Grace Holt Celebration programming and is co-sponsored by UIC Global Middle East 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.

Access Information:
  • HEPA filters provided.
  • 1250 UH is located on the 12th floor of University Hall (UH) and is accessible by elevator. Directional signs will be posted on the day of the event.
  • UH is near the Blue Line, Harrison (#7) bus, Blue Island/26th (#60) bus, and Taylor (#157) bus. There is a drop-off area on Harrison Street and the Harrison Street Parking Structure (1100 W Harrison St) and near the intersection of Harrison & Racine.
  • UH has all-gender and accessible restrooms located on the 4th floor (Room 430) and 11th floor (Room 1159), 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.
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Contact

BLST

Date posted

Mar 20, 2025

Date updated

Mar 20, 2025

Speakers

Dr. Nisrin Elamin | Assistant Professor of Anthropology & African Studies at the University of Toronto | Keynote Speaker

Nisrin (she/her) is currently writing a book tentatively titled: Stratified Enclosures: Land, Capital and Empire-making in central Sudan which focuses on Saudi and Emirati investments in land and community resistance to land dispossession in the agricultural Gezira region. In addition to scholarly articles, Nisrin has published and co-written several op-eds for Al Jazeera, the Washington Post, Okay Africa, Hammer and Hope and the Egypt Independent. Before pursuing her Ph.D., Nisrin spent over a decade working as an educator, organizer and researcher in the US and Tanzania. She is also the co-founder of the Sudan Solidarity Collective which formed in the aftermath of the current war to support local emergency response rooms (ERRs) and other mutual aid networks leading relief efforts in the face of a largely absent international aid community and civilian state.