Symposium honoring Professor Allison Davis

Thursday, April 25, 2024 David Rubenstein Forum (1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637)
Beginning at 5:00 PM

Livestream will be available here.

Welcome Remarks:

Paul Alivisatos, President, University of Chicago and the John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the College.

Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor and Inaugural Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion

Opening Remarks: Centering Allison Davis

Walter E. Massey, former Director of Argonne National Laboratory, former UChicago Vice President for Research, professor and board trustee emeritus, President emeritus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Morehouse College

Keynote and Commentary:

Resurrecting Allison Davis: A Scholar of Race in the time of American Apartheid

Brent Staples, AM’76, PhD’82, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer for The New York Times

Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University

Reception to follow

Friday, April 26, 2024Harper Center (Booth) 104

Welcome Remarks: Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. 9:00 AM

Graduate Student Panel 9:10-10:15 AM
Panelists will be recipients of the Allison Davis Graduate Research Award

Race and the Academy 10:30-11:45 AM
Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor and Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Margaret Beale Spencer, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of Comparative Human Development
Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion
Gina Samuels, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture

Education and Race 1-2:15 PM
Barbara T. Bowman, founder and past President of the Erickson Institute in Early Childhood, Director of Early Childhood for CPS, and long-time friend of Allison Davis
Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor and Chair, Sociology at Northwestern, Ph D UChicago Sociology, and prominent expert on urban neighborhoods
Onnie Rogers, currently of Northwestern psychology, who will join UChicago as Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development, an expert on cultural stereotypes, identity formation and educational inequities
Stephen Raudenbush, Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology and Chair, Committee on Education

Concluding Remarks 2:15 PM