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SUMMARY:2025 Grace Holt Celebration
DESCRIPTION: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.     	April 22nd: Workshop: Public Scholarship and Organizing Within and Beyond the Confines of the Academy   	April 23rd: Grace Holt Keynote Lecture & Awards Ceremony     	Lecture Title: Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War       	April 24th: Teach-in: Transnational Solidarity, Student Organizing and the War in Sudan   | Event post: https://blst.uic.edu/events?page_id=7888
LOCATION:   Chicago IL 60607
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