Past Lectures/Symposia/Events:
2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012
2021
June 14, 2021: Afrofuturism, Sun Ra and Others: A Transatlantic Perspective
June 4 - 5, 2021: Alumni Weekend 2021
June 4, 2021: Recovering Histories: Racialized Gender and the Professionalization of Social Work
May 21, 2021: Recovering Histories: Social Work History in Global Perspective
May 19 and 22, 2021: Prison Industrial Complex Abolition Symposium 2021
May 19, 2021: Reimagining Philanthropy through a Social Justice Lens
May 13, 2021: Engendering citizenship: Global mobilizations for equality, autonomy, and life
May 11, 2021: Recovering Histories: Immigrants, Immigration, and Social Work
April 28, 2021: FIRSTHAND Living in Poverty - Equity in Education
April 20, 2021: The 2021 Sarnat Lecture with Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD: Toward Culturally Responsive Mental Health Services
April 9 - 16, 2021: Tomorrow's Hope: Screening and Panel Discussion
March 16, 2021: Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops Screening
March 13, 2021: Virtual reading and discussion of Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City
March 12, 2021: Who Counts? The Census, Documentation, and Citizenship
March 10, 2021: Recovering Histories: Social work/welfare history through Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Perspectives
March 9, 2021: The 2021 Ruth Knee Lecture on Spirituality and Social Work
February 24 and March 3, 2021: Advancing Smart Decarceration Through Research: A Two-Part Virtual Conversation
February 18, 2021: Black Mental Health: A Time During COVID-19 and Civil Uprising
February 2, 2021: A Virtual Reading and Discussion of Reuben Jonathan Miller's New Book, Halfway Home
November 12: The 2020 Cafferty Lecture with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Eve L. Ewing
November 5: A conversation with Jhody Polk, Founder and Director of the Legal Empowerment and Advocacy Hub (L.E.A.H.)
October 7, 14, 21, 28: Social Work for Social Justice: Creating Responsive and Inclusive Institutions, Policies, and Practices. An October symposium series of honor of 100 Years of SSA's Doctoral Program.
October 22: A Conversation with Susan Burton
October 16: Voting IS Social Work
October 14: Smart Decarceration: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Driving Mass Imprisonment
October 9-14: Screening of A Most Beautiful Thing
April 17, 2020: COVID-19, Racial Discrimination, and Supporting Asian Communities Webinar
April 1-3, 2020: GADE Conference (postponed)
March 6, 2020: University of Chicago Law School Symposium on Gun Violence
March 4, 2020: Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System
February 25, 2020: Interupting Gun Violence in Chicago
February 22, 2020: AAAC Symposium "The Black Vote"
February 6, 2020: Lost and Found: Young fathers in the age of unwed parenthood with Dean Deborah Gorman-Smith at the Seminary Co-op
January 21, 2020: Race, Space, and the Built Environment: Exploring the Intersection of Place and Social (In)Justice
January 17, 2020: SSA at SSWR in Washington, DC
2019
December 2, 2019: What Justice Looks like with Assistant Professor Yanilda González
November 21, 2019: Reclaiming Community: Race and the Uncertain Future of Youth Work with Assistant Professor Shantá R. Robinson at the Seminary Co-op
November 17, 2019: UChicago Harper Lecture featuring Angela S. García "Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law."
November 13, 2019: George Glaster: Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves
November 8, 2019: Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health 3rd Annual Conference
October 25, 2019: Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law. with Angela García at the Seminary Co-op
October 17, 2019: Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America
September 25, 2019: The Power of Prosecutors in the Decarceration Movement
June 6 - 9, 2019: Alumni Weekend
May 23, 2019: Shaping a Science in Social Work Book Launch
May 17, 2019: The Opioid Crisis and Older Adults: Prescription to Addiction
May 14, 2019: On the Table: Memo to the Mayor
May 10, 2019: Rights for Women in Prison and the UN Bangkok Rules: A Global Symposium
May 8, 2019: Lisa Damour: Under Pressure: Addressing the Rise of Stress and Anxiety in Youth
May 4, 2019: Justice Works Symposium: Envisioning a Transformed Justice System
May 2, 2019: Are Municipal IDs the Key to Urban Inclusion?
April 25, 2019: An American Summer with Alex Kotlowitz
April 24, 2019: Designing a new path forward: The social work agenda for Chicago's first black female mayor.
April 23, 2019: Carol Gilligan: In a Different Voice: Act II
April 16, 2019: The 2019 Ikuo Yamaguchi Memorial Seminar: "Being Muslim: Race, Gender, and Islam in America"
April 9, 2019: Red Round Globe Hot Burning panel and discussion
March 7, 2019: Understanding Suicide’s Allure: A Professional and Personal Perspective
March 2, 2019: Boot Camp Brunch
February 20, 2019: Dr. W. Thomas Boyce: The Orchid and The Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
January 16, 2019: Space, Equity and Lessons Learned from the Housing Field
December 7, 2018: Webinar: New Results for the Stable Scheduling Study
November 29, 2018: CBS News' Alex Wagner on Race, Identity, and Belonging
November 26, 2018: Creating an Equitable City
November 1, 2018: Ruth Knee Lecture presented by Gregory Boyle "The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness"
October 25, 2018: "America to Me" Screening and Panel Conversation with Filmmaker and Local Education Leaders
October 18, 2018: Ghosts in the Schoolyard by professor Eve L. Ewing - Official Launch Party
October 9, 2018: Campus Conversation on the Jason Van Dyke Trial Verdict
October 3, 2018: Campus conversation on the Laquan McDonald shooting & Jason Van Dyke murder trial
September 26, 2018: DeRay Mckesson On the Other Side of Freedom Book Tour
May 21, 2018: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men: Shifting Sexualities and HIV Health Implications
May 18, 2018: We Can Do More: What has been done and what still needs to be done for Puerto Rico at the local and national level
May 10, 2018: Grief as Resistance II: Violence, Trauma, and Resilience in Colombia and Chicago
April 26, 2018: Lessons Learned and Stripes Earned: What to Do When a Survivor Sits on Your Couch
April 19, 2018: 2018 Cafferty Lecture on Race and Ethnicity in American Life
April 17, 2018: Scheduling for Success in Retail Forum: Findings from a Study of the Gap, Inc.
April 16, 2018: Let's Get Free: Music, Mass Incarceration, and the Right to (Re)Make the City
April 12, 2018: Todd Clear: Including Violent Crimes in Plans for Prison Reform
March 29, 2018: ConverSSAtions: Suspensions and Expulsions: Children of Color in Early Childhood Programs
March 26, 2018: The Safety Net that AIDS Activism Built
February 17, 2018: Strengthening the social worker's political voice and influence against the rise of overt racism
February 13, 2018: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
January 25, 2018: Urban Readers Series - Matthew Epperson "Smart Decarceration" - Ronald Simpson Bey
November 2-4, 2017: Smart Decarceration Initiative 2nd National Conference
October 20 and October 21, 2017: AMP the Base: SSA's Impact Conference
October 19, 2017: Born in Prison: The Intergenerational Legacy of Maternal Incarceration
October 10, 2017: Try-Me's Cafe Grand Opening Tasting Party
September 28, 2017: Bringing Refugees to America: Obama and Trump Administration Policies
July 12, 2017: 2017 Yamaguchi Lecture: Authoring a Life: Narrative Identity, Redemption, and Donald J. Trump
June 1, 2017: Strides for Peace Run/Walk 2017
May 31, 2017: Detention of Asylum Seekers in South Texas: Causes, Effects, and Responses on the Ground
May 25, 2017: Grief as Resistance: Racialized State of Violence and the Politics of Black Motherhood in the Americas
April 4 - May 16, 2017: Michael M. Davis Lecture Series
May 10, 2017: A Morning with Rep. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
May 10, 2017: Steven C. Hayes, PhD: The Psychological Foundations of Objectification and Dehumanization
May 5, 2017: Global Anti-Blackness and Anti-Immigrant Politics: Lessons from the Dominican Republic
April 26, 2017: The Mind-Gut Connection
March 30, 2017: Hidden Figures of SSA: Honoring our Trailblazers and Inspiring our Future
February 28, 2017: The Ruth Knee Lecture
February 1 and 15, 2017: Social Justice Talks 2017
January 25, 2017: ConverSSAtions Panel on Gun Violence: Community Impact and Response
January 18, 2017: Inaugural Implications Panel Discussion
January 9, 2017: Violence, Racism and Urban America
January 3, 2017: Academic Freedom and Diversity Panel
November 11: Veterans Day 2016: A Conversation Marie Tillman
October 22, 2016: Illuminating (In)Justice Series: "Proximity Matters: Undoing Mass Incarceration and the Critical Role of People most Affected"
October 17, 2016: E. Summerson Carr and Michael Lempert - Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life at the Seminary Co-op
October 14, 2016: The 2016 Social Justice Address: "Perspectives on Environmental Injustice in the Flint, Michigan Water Crisis."
October 14, 2016: The Rhoda G. Sarnat Lecture: "Applying Evidence-Based Practices in Real-World Settings: Teacher-Child Interaction Training–Universal (TCIT-U) as an Exemplar."
September 1, 2016: UChicago SSA Collaboration with China to Build the Social Work Profession: Hong Kong launch event
August 30, 2016: UChicago SSA Collaboration with China to Build the Social Work Profession: Beijing launch event
June 22, 2016: Town Hall on the Health and Human Services Transformation
June 7, 2016: Deputy Dean for Curriculum & David and Mary Winton Green Professor Tina Rzepnicki's Retirement Reception
May 26, 2016: The Fifth Annual SHINE Event: "Black Male Sexuality, Respectability Politics and HIV Policy."
May 25, 2016: Paper Tigers moving screening and discussion.
May 19, 2016: Washington DC Area SSA Alumni Rooftop Soirée.
May 11, 2016: Crook County: Book discussion by author, Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
May 10, 2016: On the Table
April 15, 2016: On Liberation: A Conversation with Jennicet Gutiérrez
April 15, 2016: A New Day One Book Signing and Conversation
April 13, 2016: "A Legacy Ignored: African Americans' Parallel System of Social Work/Welfare during the Progressive Era"
March 28, 2016: "Making a Killing" Documentary Screening and Panel
March 23, 2016: Working Public with David Brooks
February 20, 2016: Phenomenal Black Women and Girls symposium
January 27, 2016: Illuminating (In)Justice Series
December 3, 2015: Integrating the Inner City: Chicago Public Housing Past, Present and Future
September 9, 2015: Reversing Mass Incarceration Lecture
May 13, 2014: Global Perspectives on Adolescent Health and Economic Strengthening Conference: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa
May 12-13, 2014: Freedom Summer After 50 Years: Looking Back & Looking Forward
April 26, 2014: Health Leads presents Sickcare vs. Healthcare: Envisioning a Healthy Chicago
April 24, 2014: ConverSSAtions Series - Communicating the Impact of Social Work: What Matters in Social Services?
March 6, 2014: ConverSSAtions Series - Healthcare: The Times: They are a Changing
February 15, 2014: Black Young Men in America: Rising above a Social and Racial Prejudice, Trauma, and Educational Disparities
January 28, 2014: ConverSSAtions Series - Chicago's Violence Problem: How Social-Emotional Learning Can Provide Promise for the City
March 23, 2013: Navigating the Cultural Divide: Bridging the Gap Between our Professional, Public and Private Selves
March 2, 2013: Technology and the Rising Cost of Health Care: A Paradigm Shift
February 17, 2013: Tampa Harper Lecture with Virginia Parks – Jobs and Politics: Urban Grassroots Responses
July 12, 2012: Poverty, Promise, & Possibility Lecture Series
February 18, 2012: Social Exclusion: The Marginalization of African Americans in Health Care, Housing and Employment