Hearing One Another Workshop: Provides an opportunity for students to better appreciate the richness of one another’s identities and start developing conversation habits that can promote more meaningful interactions and a stronger sense of belonging.

Interdisciplinary Series on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality - Perspectives Across the City with Stanford Carpenter: This talk uses various forms of ethnographic research, memoir, and storytelling to discuss Identity and the artifactual nature of comic books. This event series draws on the rich intellectual life of the broader city of Chicago to bring law students a sense of how questions of race, ethnicity, and inequality are understood and evaluated using other disciplinary tools. 

Bridges: The First-Person Writing Project Info Session: Bridges is a creative writing project in which participants develop first-person essays through guided workshops, peer review, and optional one-on-one coaching. Through Bridges, now in its fourth year, we create a culture of belonging, process our own stories, and gain perspective on experiences different from our own. Supported by the Office of the Dean of Students and the Communications Office, students will take part in an intimate roundtable series with like-minded peers where they will share their stories, develop a creative writing skillset, and produce narratives which they can choose to publish. 

Martha C. Nussbaum Student Roundtable with Professors Ginsburg and Henderson: During this Nussbaum Roundtable, Professors Ginsburg and Henderson had an open dialogue as to whether Trump should be prosecuted. The Martha C. Nussbaum Student Roundtables support the University of Chicago’s longstanding commitment to free expression and open discourse.

Diversity Scholar Speaker Series with Valerie B. Jarrett: Valerie spoke about democracy, her work with President Obama and the Obama Foundation, and answered our students questions. Valerie is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. She serves on the boards of Ariel Capital Management Holdings, 2U, and Lyft, and she is also a senior advisor to the Obama Foundation and Attn. Thank you to the American Constitution Society & Black Law Students Association for co-sponsoring this event alongside the Dean of Students Office. 

Interdisciplinary Series on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality – Perspectives from Across the City with Dr. Hardeep Dhillon: This talk touched on the making of modern US citizenship and alienage: Asian immigration, racial capital, and US law. This event series draws on the rich intellectual life of the broader city of Chicago to bring law students a sense of how questions of race, ethnicity, and inequality are understood and evaluated using other disciplinary tools.