BMRC Community Symposium
@ The Joseph Regenstein Library
1100 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, March 13th, from 12:30PM - 2PM
BMRC Community Symposium
Mar. 13, 2024
11:30am – 2:00pm CDT
Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, JRL 12
Free and open to the public
Join us on March 13, 2024, as BMRC members and affiliates discuss their latest work to document Black experiences in Chicago.
Presenters include:
KEYNOTE: Dr. Tonia Sutherland, Associate Professor of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles
“Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife”
Saroop Singh, Assistant Director, South Side Home Movie Project
“A Movie Camera in Bronzeville: The “Newsreel-ettes” of the Ramon Williams Collection”
Heather Hummons and Karl Bullock, Rebuild Foundation at the Stony Island Arts Bank
“Rebuilding a Black Information Mecca: Preserving Black heritage through the restoration of the Johnson Publishing Company Library”
AND
Maura Fennelly, Chicago Research Director for the Chicago Covenants Project
“The Chicago Covenants Project: Identifying Mechanisms of Racist Exclusion”
The BMRC’s mission is to connect all who seek to document, share, understand and preserve Black experiences.
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